The African American vivil rights Movement

AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROGRESSION OF THE EARLY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CONDITION AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS THROUGH U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES FROM 1849 TO 1974

America holds itself to be a pillar of democracy and freedom, offering equality to all individuals. This essay questions that belief.

The American Civil war (1861-1865) ended slavery in the South, but by no means gave African Americans the same equal rights and privileges as white males. The struggle for equality under the law continued for more than a century after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing all slaves. Over the years, several cases came before the US Supreme Court that addressed the constitutionality of laws put in place to segregate the races. The oppression of the African American people after Reconstruction was mainly through legalized racism, known as Jim Crow laws. The constitutionality of these laws was reviewed and questioned in the Supreme Court.

It is interesting to see how as the times changed and progressed, the opinions and rulings of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of certain laws changed as well. The general vie

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