Abstract

In this paper, the Success of the Civil Rights Movement and its origin in the Cold War has been discussed. After the cold war, the American society had gone through a number of changes. The biggest change was the proper recognition of the Afro-American people in the country. The movement exploded to the forefront in the late 1960s. The success of the Civil Rights Movement had its origin in the Cold War itself.

Success of the Civil Rights Movement and its origin in the Cold War

Introduction

The Civil Rights Movement in America was a prolonged and non-violent struggle, to extend the full access to civil rights and equality before the law to the groups such as African American citizens that do not have the access before. There have been numerous movements for different groups in America, but the term is generally used to refer to the efforts to end discrimination against African Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the southern United States that took place between the years 1955 and 1968.

A number of policies that was crafted in the U.S.A. during the Cold War of 1950's were supposed to fight back any communist governments all over the globe, and their policy towards countries in Latin American were developed keeping in view the similar concerns. Their policies regarding the immigrants coming from Latin American countries were influenced by whether by allowing a great number of immigration from the Latin countries to America would reinforce or deteriorate the forces of anti-communist in the said countries.

Discussion

The first issue raised in the city of Montgomery, State of Alabama. According to the Southern custom, which was the law in Alabama, blacks had to give the front seats to white passengers in the bus. Rosa Parks was arrested for resisting arrest and violating municipal ordinances. This incident becomes the trigger for a new tactic: a boycott, which would mobilize the black population under the leadership of Baptist minister Martin Luther King against the city's public transport (Hohenstein, 36).

In April 1963, the brutal repression by the police against a nonviolent demonstration, led by King and broadcast on television, transformed the national mood, and enabled him to President Kennedy to raise a bill to Congress to prevent racial discrimination, "under the assertion that race should not occupy any place in life and in American law." But the Congress did not react. The black protest found its climax ...