BP #3 - Mini Research on HeLa themes

American history (politics, economics, social factors) in the 1940s / 1950s

 

 CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENTS

         Movement for racial equality in the United States that through nonviolent protest, broke the pattern of racial segregation in the South and achieved equal rights legislation for black people. This crisis was a struggle by African Americans during 1950s to 1960s because the wanted to be treated equal as white people. For example, equal education, housing, and equal opportunity of employment also the right to be free of racial discrimination. According to the law African Americans are required  to sit in the back of the city buses and to give up their seats to whites should the white section when the bus become full. As an example, on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. 

By the late 1960s, African Americans still suffered from many disadvantages, including poverty rates that were much higher than those among whites and physical health that was much worse. Racially motivated violence persisted as well, as seen in the assassination of King by a white man in 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister and activist who led the U.S. civil rights movement from the 1950s until his 1968 assassination. However, these problems of the civil rights movement had completely changed the face of the United States of America. Such as  law and politics.For example, it has gave a greater protection to the rights of minorities, also  the Supreme Court had become more active in its defense of individual rights. As a result, the Court and the civil rights movement had great influence on each other, with each reacting to and encouraging the efforts of the other. Also, the federal government had enforced the rights of a persecuted minority in the face of vigorous opposition from the southern states.

 Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King