Civil Rights Movement

The main thing that helped lead Civil Rights Movement to change the laws of our nation was that when African-Americans did something that was part of the movement like breaking laws, they did it in a non-violent way. This helped show President Johnson and White-Americans that African-Americans are the same people as they are and that they just want to have equal rights. Civil-disobedience was a big part in the movement. An example of civil-disobedience was when African-American children filled the streets of Birmingham up and came together in an effort to fill up the Birmingham jail. The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination.

Laws made during the 1960’s that were directed towards blacks is what led to Civil Rights Movement. There was laws that pushed the separation of blacks and whites-(Section 597, Separation of Races.) “It shall be unlawful for a Negro and a white person to play together or in company with each other in any game”. Law such as these ones restrained the blacks of doing things that most whites can do. There was another law that almost completely separated blacks from whites. (Section 359, Separation of Races) “entrances, exits, and seating or standing sections set aside for and assigned to the use of Negroes, unless the entrances, exits and seating or standing sections set aside for and assigned to the use of white persons are distinctly separated”. There were even physical barriers and signs built that separated the blacks and whites. The black people of Birmingham, Alabama did not agree with these laws and they felt that they were unjust.

After MLK was arrested and taken to jail in effort to help the Civil Rights Movement MLK...