How Did Slavery Affect The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement were movements that happened during the 1950’s to the 1960’s that were created to combat racial discrimination against African Americans and making it illegal to do so. The movement ended up being so much more than a fight to end racial discrimination. It was a time regaining racial dignity and freedom from white oppression. Throughout the period of time in which African Americans fought for equality, desegregation and racism, the United States made massive changes. Beginning with the Jim Crow Laws, the countless court cases and the vast impact on the Civil Rights leaders, our country made changes with new teachings and changes in many ignorant minds. With talking about the Civil Rights Movement, we cannot dismiss the importance of the effects of slavery on African American lives and how it pertains to the Civil Rights Movement. Slavery was first brought to the American land in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. It was estimated that 7 million slaves were imported. Slaves would work on the rice, tobacco and indigo plantations and through the constitution of the United States, they were counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation purposes. With the invention of the Cotton Gin, it strengthened the importance of the need for slavery. Slaves were never granted the right to learn …show more content…
The beginning of the Civil Rights movement is marked by the Montgomery Bus Boycott which entailed a woman named Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refusing to give up her chair to a white person. Rosa Parks went against the southern policy and was jailed for doing so. Martin Luther King emerged and was known for his nonviolent tactics and was a seen as an effective leader for the African American community. Committees and protest emerged during this time which soon forced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of