Three Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Three Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Introduction

The Civil Right Movement was aimed at getting rid of racial discrimination and getting the rights to vote by using non-violent protests. The disobedience and protests during the movement causes a tensed state of affairs and put in trouble several people who played a part in the movement. Parthia Hall, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, and Barbara Brandt are three famous women who participated actively in the movement and played an important part to bring about social justice. These three women evolved different understandings and experiences although they joined the movement as activists. The reason for this development was because their race was different. Brandt felt like an outsider although Simmons and Hall experienced dangers and personal obstacles due to which she had a very different understanding about the movement compared to the other two.

Discussion

Hall and Simmons were black civil rights activists because of which they faced the obstacles and danger of the movement. During the movement, Simmons, while in Atlanta, was arrested while she had joined a protest at a restaurant and imprisoned separately from the white prisoners because of her race (Umoja, 2003). After being released, she was informed that she faced the risk of losing her scholarship and was in threat of being expelled from college. Although she fought for the rights of black people, even her grandmother was not impressed by her actions and instead believed that she had brought a bad name to the family and disgraced them.

Hall went through similar difficulties while she was living in Mrs. Carolyn Daniek and her son's house. During her stay there, the house was attacked by someone who drove to the house and fired some shots into the house. This incident injured Hall's coworkers but Hall was never scared of the incident and she kept her spirits alive to continue to work for the rights of black people. In another incident, when Hall, along with her co-worker, was in a small town, a police officer came towards them and fired at the ground to scare them. Hall herself was traumatized and could not recall the way they moved from the ground that was sprayed with bullets to jail. These incidents show that both Hall and Simmons faced a lot of issues during the days of the movement which were unjust and brutal (Simmons, 2006).

Due to dangers and obstacles they ...