Freedom On My Mind Sparknotes
Freedom on my Mind recounts the struggles and accomplishments of African-Americans in their quest for civil rights, education integration, cultural acceptance, political participation, and economic freedom in America. The authors eloquently narrated events, figures and data through which readers can relive the experiences of the people who have helped shape the future of American society.
Freedom on my Mind features some of the most important events that encapsulated the African American experiences and accomplishments in the last century. Every chapter of the book tells the untold, sometimes forgotten stories of a people who have contributed to the larger American story, which is a story of progress, economic empowerment, equality, courage, …show more content…
Constitution as one of the most powerful tool to fight racism against black was by far one of the greatest attributes of the Civil Rights Movement. The class lawsuits brought by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other organizations against different factions of the white establishment unequivocally knocked out the strongest teeth of social and economic injustices against minorities. Chief among these cases was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The case was brought in an attempt to “strike at the entire system of segregation” and it was argued on the basis that segregation violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (p. 612). The lawyers who argued the case contend that the Supreme Court’s decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 violated the constitution. (p. 433). Other important cases were Shelley v. Kraemer, Browder v. Gayle, Morgan v. Virginia, Smith v. Allwright, Pearson v. Murray, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. The plan developed by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to desegregate schools challenged the core principle of school segregation and the systematic racism that continued to proliferate American society (pp.
Freedom on my Mind features some of the most important events that encapsulated the African American experiences and accomplishments in the last century. Every chapter of the book tells the untold, sometimes forgotten stories of a people who have contributed to the larger American story, which is a story of progress, economic empowerment, equality, courage, …show more content…
Constitution as one of the most powerful tool to fight racism against black was by far one of the greatest attributes of the Civil Rights Movement. The class lawsuits brought by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other organizations against different factions of the white establishment unequivocally knocked out the strongest teeth of social and economic injustices against minorities. Chief among these cases was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The case was brought in an attempt to “strike at the entire system of segregation” and it was argued on the basis that segregation violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (p. 612). The lawyers who argued the case contend that the Supreme Court’s decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 violated the constitution. (p. 433). Other important cases were Shelley v. Kraemer, Browder v. Gayle, Morgan v. Virginia, Smith v. Allwright, Pearson v. Murray, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. The plan developed by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to desegregate schools challenged the core principle of school segregation and the systematic racism that continued to proliferate American society (pp.