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Civil Rights In a Democracy the majority does not need any protection, because it is the majority, which has control. However, as seen through history, even majorities can be tyrannical, and the minority needs protection from them. "Civil rights" is the term used when speaking of the privileges, immunities, and practices of freedom, which are protected from violation by other citizens. That is the definition of civil rights; although when most people think of civil rights they instantly think it means black civil rights. This is understandable since blacks, more than any other minority group in America, have had the toughest and therefore the best known struggle for equal rights. This is due to the fact that most of the majority believed that when the people in the minority group are of another color, they are also different in other ways, and therefore, not entitled to quite the same rights and privileges. This belief was not limited to just the South. Discrimination ha!s always been pervasive throughout all of Western civilization. This racist ideology has held the African Americans down in America for many years. It was not more than 150 years ago that Blacks were considered so inferior that they were held as slaves. Af
bama riders were beaten by angry mobs and one bus was even burned. This violence brought national attention to the Freedom Riders and the Alabama officials were reprimanded for allowing this violence to take place. The administration of President John Kennedy stepped in to protect the Freedom Riders because Alabama police would not guarantee safe travel. Finally the riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi and their rides ended. The Freedom Rides did result in the desegregation of some bus stations. The most important result of these rides was that they demonstrated just how far civil rights workers would go to achieve their goals. The SCLC The greatest contribution of the SCLC was their protests in racist Southern cities. These protests were intended to create such public disorder that the local government would end segregation in order to restore normal business activity. The demonstrations needed many devoted protesters who were willing to protest as long as necessary t! adolescents who filled the streets of Birmingham caused Connor to lose his temper. The belligerent commissioner ordered police to attack demonstrators with dogs and firefighters to turn high-pressure water hoses on them. This violence was shown throughout the nation and the world in newspapers, magazines, and most importantly, on television. Much of the world was shocked by the events in Birmingham, and the reaction to the violence increased support for black civil rights. In Birmingham white leaders promised to negotiate an end to some segregation practices. Business leaders agreed to hire and promote more black employees and to desegregate some public accommodations. More important, however, the Birmingham demonstrations built support for national legislation against segregation. Southern Colleges get Desegregated In 1962 a black man from Mississippi, James Meredith, applied for admission to University of Mississippi. The university attempted to block Meredith's admission, ! upport for civil rights up to that time had been weak, into a true commitment to end segregation. In June 1963 Kennedy proposed civil rights legislation. The Famous March on Washington The national civil rights leadership decided to keep pressure on both the Kennedy administration and congress to pass the civil rights legislation proposed by Kennedy by planning a March on Washington. Every civil rights group was there including leaders of the NAACP, CORE, SCLC, the Urban League, and SNCC. Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered his moving "I Have a Dream" oration to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. This speech is one of the most famous speeches ever, as it powerfully and concisely delivers the ideals behind the fight for civil rights. After Kennedy was killed, Lyndon Johnson carried on his pledge to fight for civil rights. Johnson managed to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress after strong opposition from Southern legislators. It prohibite! n. The national media reported Black Power as a new and dangerous development in the civil rights movement, and the slogan immediately drew condemnation from whites for its racially separatist message. Leaders of the other national civil rights organizations also denounced Black Power. The slogan helped to undermine what had once been a national consensus for civil rights. In 1967 Carmichael and his successor as chairman of SNCC, H. Rap Brown, became national symbols of black radicalism. Whites condemned them as instigators of racial division and violence. Opposition became stronger in 1968 when the Black Panther Party began promoting Black Power. The Panthers advocated violence to achieve their goals and battled police in Chicago and Oakland. Several of its leaders were killed, and others were imprisoned for killing policemen. Many people claim that the civil rights movement ended in 1968 with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe that it was actually after t! emacists. Moses face
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