Civil Rights Movement



Civil Rights Movement

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.

The impact of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been vastly under-estimated in both the scholarly literature on movement outcomes as well as in popular understanding. This is in part due to the way that social movement scholars conceptualize institutionalization largely as a process of bringing movements into the state. This, however, ignores the ways that movements get brought into other institutions. Organized black activists encountered political repression at the local, national, and international level. Yet the movements impact on American history, its successes, failures, and shortcomings, as well as it contemporary legacy, remain undervalued and understudied.

Discussion

Civil Rights Movement is a motto and a political term which is associated with various ideologies. This slogan is used by social activists in order to defend the rights of Negros all over the world, particularly by the Afro-American. The social movement of Civil Rights Movement strongly existed in U.S. culture throughout the decades, stressing ethnic arrogance and the introduction of ethnic and governmental establishments to fight and encourage the combined concerns of Afro-American nationals, to encourage their significance, and assure their liberty.

Some adherents of the Civil Rights Movement believe in the autonomy of the black, but with a variety of trends as a manifestation of nationalism and separatism. Often advocates of Civil Rights Movement are determined to use violence to achieve its objectives, but this position is often accompanied with a determined effort to organize the community. Because of his violent behavior, often the adherents of Black Power came into direct conflict with the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, often acting antagonist. However, some groups and individuals participated both between the movements for civil rights activism and Black Power.

The Black Power movement in U.S. emerged with the Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968). Many members of the Coordinating Committee of Students Against Violence (CCEV), including Stokely Carmichael criticized the pacifist attitude against racial discrimination and difference-expressed and exercised by Martin Luther King and other centrists of the ...