What Are Three Things That Contribute To The End Of The Civil Rights Movement
Bryiana Mooers
Civil Rights Movement Essay There were a lot of things that helped end segregation, and provide equal rights for all Americans. There are a few that I think really stood out, and helped solve the issue of segregation for good. The three things that I thought were the most helpful were the Brown v Topeka Board of Education, Freedom Summer, and The March on Washington. I am going to talk about the contributions that each of these events had in the ending of segregation and equal rights that they created for everyone in America. I think that one of the most important things that went on during the civil rights movement was the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. It was actually the name given to five separate cases all involving the situation of segregation in public schools. The situation was brought to consideration because blacks who were supposed to go to blacks only schools, had to walk to a school farther away from their houses than the whites only school which was much closer. The NAACP said that the separate schools were unequal, and they violated the equal protection clause. The situation called for many hearings in the Supreme Court. Eventually, after many debates, schools were desegregated due to Brown and Brown II. …show more content…
White college students from the north, went south to teach the black Americans about what was on the tests. This was called Freedom Summer. This was an event to grant African Americans the same right to vote as whites, without passing a test. There were both blacks and whites who were interested in equal voting rights, and they held a freedom election to grant these rights to African Americans. Most of the protests were met with violence and murder. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were against the Freedom Election of 1964, and went around lynching blacks who were
Civil Rights Movement Essay There were a lot of things that helped end segregation, and provide equal rights for all Americans. There are a few that I think really stood out, and helped solve the issue of segregation for good. The three things that I thought were the most helpful were the Brown v Topeka Board of Education, Freedom Summer, and The March on Washington. I am going to talk about the contributions that each of these events had in the ending of segregation and equal rights that they created for everyone in America. I think that one of the most important things that went on during the civil rights movement was the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. It was actually the name given to five separate cases all involving the situation of segregation in public schools. The situation was brought to consideration because blacks who were supposed to go to blacks only schools, had to walk to a school farther away from their houses than the whites only school which was much closer. The NAACP said that the separate schools were unequal, and they violated the equal protection clause. The situation called for many hearings in the Supreme Court. Eventually, after many debates, schools were desegregated due to Brown and Brown II. …show more content…
White college students from the north, went south to teach the black Americans about what was on the tests. This was called Freedom Summer. This was an event to grant African Americans the same right to vote as whites, without passing a test. There were both blacks and whites who were interested in equal voting rights, and they held a freedom election to grant these rights to African Americans. Most of the protests were met with violence and murder. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were against the Freedom Election of 1964, and went around lynching blacks who were