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Civil rights in the Sixties

Todd A. McDougal

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September 20 2010

Marry Jo Norris

Civil rights in the Sixties

Before television in the civil rights movement there was the newspaper and radio. To much disbelief the news had to tell the truth, it was the news. The South perceived of civil rights were far different, in the south colored folk were still being treated un equally and abused for drinking out of the wrong water fountain. A burning cross would appear on any black families yard that lived in the wrong neighborhood nor listen the warnings that had been announced about interactions with white people. The media in the south were quiet about the way civil rights were done and performed in the south. Not much outrage on television and in the newspapers in the southern states. Black patrons of the south lived in such fear that they would honestly take an in justice plea in a courtroom setting than to face an all white jury. Here a two different examples that occurred.

“A Black teenager with no previous police record was hunting for his family some food, while a gang of drunken whites decided to ''devil' ' him. One of them grabbed the boy's gun and it accidentally fired, killing the son of a prominent white citizen. An all-white jury convicted the black youth of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment even though a witness said, ''If he had been white, he never would have been tried. ''

“A White woman, jaywalking despite repeated police warnings, was killed when she walked into the side of a car-driven by a black man. Charged with manslaughter, he pleaded guilty rather than face an all-white jury. He was sentenced accidental'' and said the defendant into the civil rights movements. His ability for public-speaking that, which would become renowned as his stature grew in the Civil Rights Movement. “In May 1963 King and his SCLC staff escalated anti-segregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join....