Skin Color Sign In Civil Rights
Skin Color, Signs and Speeches
A Story About Civil Rights
Equality is defined as the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. It is written in the Constitution that all men are created equal, but for 100s of years, several types of citizens have been treated anything but that. We go back to the 1960s. African Americans are killed, beaten, and oppressed due to the color of their skin. Several whites, although caring about Civil Rights, stand by and watch, to afraid to say or do anything to get them hurt. During the time of the March on Washington, white and black activists both played important parts in the Civil Rights Movement. On July 2, 1963, six African American men who had led the nation’s largest civil rights groups hashed out the details of the up and coming nonviolent show of force they had planned for the late summer. This protest would later be called The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. These six men, Martin Luther King Jr, Roy Wilkins (NAACP), Whitney Young (NUL), John Lewis (SNCC), James Farmer, and the group leader, a 74-year old black union leader A. Philip Randolph met in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York (Thompson). They called themselves the “Big Six”. With …show more content…
It was sai that their presence, although a passing mention, was still essential to the strategy behind the march. (Thompson) The irony of the race of people that had so brutally mistreated them showing up at the March with signs and speeches clearly sent a message to everyone in the U.S. Eric Kulberg was told by his boss when asking to get the day off to attend the March, “Go ahead (March on Washington), you’ll have a job when you get back.” (Thompson) Although so many white Americans were against the fact that other whites wanted to march, and wanted to fight, they still treated them as people, ignoring the fact that they were fighting for the people they did not treat as
A Story About Civil Rights
Equality is defined as the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. It is written in the Constitution that all men are created equal, but for 100s of years, several types of citizens have been treated anything but that. We go back to the 1960s. African Americans are killed, beaten, and oppressed due to the color of their skin. Several whites, although caring about Civil Rights, stand by and watch, to afraid to say or do anything to get them hurt. During the time of the March on Washington, white and black activists both played important parts in the Civil Rights Movement. On July 2, 1963, six African American men who had led the nation’s largest civil rights groups hashed out the details of the up and coming nonviolent show of force they had planned for the late summer. This protest would later be called The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. These six men, Martin Luther King Jr, Roy Wilkins (NAACP), Whitney Young (NUL), John Lewis (SNCC), James Farmer, and the group leader, a 74-year old black union leader A. Philip Randolph met in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York (Thompson). They called themselves the “Big Six”. With …show more content…
It was sai that their presence, although a passing mention, was still essential to the strategy behind the march. (Thompson) The irony of the race of people that had so brutally mistreated them showing up at the March with signs and speeches clearly sent a message to everyone in the U.S. Eric Kulberg was told by his boss when asking to get the day off to attend the March, “Go ahead (March on Washington), you’ll have a job when you get back.” (Thompson) Although so many white Americans were against the fact that other whites wanted to march, and wanted to fight, they still treated them as people, ignoring the fact that they were fighting for the people they did not treat as