Civil Rights Movement

ABSTRACT

This research paper describes the major events occurring during 1877-2000 as a part of civil rights movements. Civil rights movements began to fight for civil rights by Black people against the white people. This research paper highlights work done and step taken by renowned personalities like, Johnson, King Luther, John F. Kennedy, etc, who devoted their life and time for fighting against the rights of black people.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTII

INTRODUCTION1

Civil Right Movement1

THESIS STATEMENT1

MAJOR EVENTS1

Reconstruction Era1

Booker T. Washington and Accommodation3

Plessy v. Ferguson3

The NAACP4

Notable Firsts4

Brown versus Board of Education5

The Civil Rights Act of 19576

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee6

The Election of 19607

Kennedy and 1960s civil rights movements7

Kennedy's Assassination8

The Civil Rights Act of 19648

RLUIPA - 2000s9

CONCLUSION9

BIBLIOGRAPHY10

Civil Rights Movement (1877-2000)

Introduction

This paper contains description about civil rights movement and major events that took place during the civil rights movement era. Furthermore, the document covers brief description about every event, explaining what actually happened in that event.

Civil Right Movement

The civil rights movement was a political movement run worldwide for development of law which would cater equal rights for human beings. During the post war era of civil war, from 1866-1877, society went under radical and immediate changes. The Africans who were previously enslaved were released from plantations and farms having no money in their place, no place to go and no supporting system.

Thesis Statement

This paper will analyse the events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement describing the steps taken by African and minorities against the way they were being treated and in order to raise their voice for their rights.



Major Events

Reconstruction Era

The decline of the presidency began with the term of Andrew Johnson during the Reconstruction era. Johnson's battles with Congress over the proper policy toward the defeated South and African Americans caused Republican lawmakers between 1865 and 1869 to override Johnson's vetoes, pass such restrictive measures as the Tenure of Office Act (1867), and bring impeachment proceedings against the president in 1868. That year Johnson narrowly escaped conviction and removal from office, but his presidency was thereafter crippled.

The rise of congressional power relative to the president continued under Ulysses S. Grant from 1869 to 1877. Although Grant was a more vigorous executive than historians have generally acknowledged, he took a narrow view of his role and left most policy initiatives to Republican lawmakers. The scandals of his second term further eroded the standing of his office. By 1877 leading senators looked upon the White House as properly subordinate to Capitol Hill.

After the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as the President, Reconstruction was brought to an end and majority of the federal groups were withdrawn out of South, where the groups left behind did not do anything for protecting the rights of African American black people. The home rule return to the previous secessionist States indicated the return of white supremacy. This has lead to an increase in segregation and disenfranchisement of African American people.

After this, the national strikes started occurring, with first the first national strike aimed at Ohio Railroad and Baltimore, ...