Question

Examine African Americans’ (enslaved and free) struggle and determination to achieve lasting social, political, and economic right from the end of the American Revolution through the Civil War.

Answer 1

African Americans had the greatest ,longest & the most violent struggle was even written in the text of the constitution their fight for freedom & equality provided the legal & moral foundation for others who sought recognition of their equality later on.

The civil rights movement was a"freedom struggle " by African Americans in 1950& 1960 to gain equality. The main features of the movement wew freedom from discrimination, equal opportunity inemployment , education& housing , the right to vote & equal access to public facilities.& the right to be free from racial discrimination . By this movement the African Americans sought to restore the rights of citizenship by the 14th & 15th amendments which had been Erodd Jim crows law They divided Africans & Americans from all sorts ie education , housing , use of public toilets, restarurants . trains & even the rest rooms . They were denied to vote , move freely & not to marry whites.

Myriad other prejudicial & discriminatory practices were commited .These laws & practices were areality of United Stateslife by 20th century.

Efforts were made by Africans Americans to gain civil rights began before civil right movements by1909. Blacks & whites formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp), which became a organization in the cause of civil rights for African Americans. The movement's legal victory came in 1954, when the NAACP won brown v. board of education of topeka, kansas, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S. Ct. 686, 98 L. Ed. 873, in which the Supreme Court struck down laws segregating white and black children into different public elementary schools. With Brown, it became apparent that African Americans had important allies in the highest federal court and its chief justice, earl warren.

START OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT :On December 5, The members of the African American community rallied at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomer decided to carry out the boycott. It was inspired by the words of the Reverend martin luther king jr.

Here" King declared in thechurch, "to say to those who have mistreated us so long that we are tired—tired of being segregated and humiliated; tired of being kicked about by the brutal feet of oppression." He went on to make a case for peace & nonviolence. Contrasting the methods of nonviolence that he envisioned for a civil rights movement,

In our protest there will be no cross burnings…. We will be guided by the highest principles of law and order. Our method will be that of persuasion, not coercion. We will only say to the people, "Let conscience be your guide" … [O]ur actions must be guided by the deepest principles of our Christian faith. Love must be our regulating ideal. Once again we must hear the words of Jesus echoing across the centuries: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you."