Standing for “The National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People,” The NAACP is the most well known and long standing civil rights organization. Historically they’ve used legal action to slowly disassemble laws aiming to oppress African-Americans.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Segregated Proms
One of the most disturbing parts of the prom is not only that it is segregated, but that it is a school sponsored event. It surprises me that these two groups hold such distrust in each other despite being in such close proximity. Not only do the kids go to school together but they befriend …
Black Lives Matter and March For Our Lives
The march for our lives shares similar grass-roots origins as the civil rights movement does. The children leading the march for our lives lacks the ability to vote due to their age and don’t have nearly the same amount of resources than the massive institutions they’re fighting. Similarly, blacks during the civil rights movement were …
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“The (MLK) only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent has to have a conscience. The United States has no conscience.” -Stokely Carmichael
The methods used by Martin Luther King’s followers relied on the law and social code of the american public. Ideally, the protest would change the minds of white people by proving that blacks were not violent as many were led to believe and forcing average people to converse with blacks. Unfortunately, most citizens and police …
Black Lives Matter Protest
The Black Lives Matter protest in Nashville, Tennessee was sparked over the shooting of Daniel Hambrick. The main controversy of the case was the fact that, like many other police killings, Hambrick was running and facing away from the officer, making the use of lethal force unnecessary. Also, his corpse was left unattended and unaided …
What The Civil Rights Movement Accomplished
The Civil Rights movement accomplished much since its humble beginnings. Jim Crow laws that formerly oppressed the progression of blacks through legal means were dismantled by the NAACP. Overall racism all throughout the united states has decreased dramatically. Many of the places where blacks would have been in physical danger just sixty years ago are …
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Black Teenager In The Civil Rights Movement
Black teenagers during the civil rights movement had little opportunity for employment. Due to white employers having bias’ and the lack of black owned businesses to hire young black people was low because of the preventing blacks from gaining wealth. Lack of job opportunity meant a lower household income than the vast majority of white …
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