Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Introduction

 From the sheer start, racial discrimination had always been the cause of the many divisions and disputes in the United States of America. This racial discrimination had always posed a very serious challenge to the democratic vision of America. The Africans were brought to America in a state of slavery. A number of protests and fights in order to gain the deserving civil rights had almost been one of the most regular features in various states of America. The African Americans were no doubt among the leading, but not the only, rebellious participants in this protest and fight. The following paper discusses the events related to the Civil Rights Movement.

Discussion

Unlike the rights of the white immigrants on America, the African Americans constantly had to battle and strive for their legal recognition in the country and also to claim their legal citizenship rights. For example, let us consider the state of Illinois. Before the civil war, it had always been a sovereign state. Despite this fact, the law of Illinois had prohibited and banned the immigration of the African Americans in the state. Their law had also deprived the African Americans of their right to vote (Freitas, n.d). The same was the condition in Chicago. Even though, it was considered as the hub of anti slavery activities, but still the schools of the city and also a number of public places were discriminated and segregated racially.

During the mid of the twentieth century, the tension due to the racial discrimination had become more serious and dense in almost every state of the country, but Chicago was effected by this climate to the greatest extent. Therefore, the Chicago NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was formed. It was formed by a collaboration of the black as well as the white racial progressives. Soon afterwards, the African American civil right movements had reached a new level due to the Great Depression (Freitas, n.d). A campaign was started by an African American's owned newspaper, the Chicago Whip. The campaign was known as: “don't spend your money where you cannot work”. In the campaign, the communist party had to urge and stimulate agitations concerning the rights of employment and also the issue regarding access to the public accommodations as well as against the segregation in the schools.

It was altogether a whole new organization that took some serious steps and actions in order to promote non-violent actions. It was established in the year 1942 by James Farmer in the United States of America and was known as the Congress of Racial Equality. It used to stage proper sit-ins and all other kinds of protests that were directed against ethnic discrimination in community places and recreational centers (www.authentichistory.com). In the 1940s, the members of the United Packinghouse Workers also hold a number of protests against racial discrimination in the public places. As a result of all these protests, by the 1960s, a number of public places were opened for the African ...