The Fight for Civil Rights and the Black Power Movement

An explanation of the black power movement and a quick rundown of what it stood for. Black-run social organization that worked peacefully to end racism and advance the political and fundamental human rights of black people in the United States.A thesis assertion. analyzing the Black Power Movement’s role in the struggle for civil rights as well as the segregation of African Americans in the South and their rejection of fundamental freedoms. Black and white people’s battles and the emergence of fearless rights advocates Peaceful massive activism and freedom fighting from all sorts of black oppression, with culture, art and written word linking the Black community

The role of U.S Commission on Civil Right (CCR)

Contribution by different civil groups towards the liberation of the Blacks

The Decline of the Black Movement

Achievement of the blacks’ rights to Vote

The effects of the black movement efforts on the current policies and its place in history

Conclusion

Transition on the final thought on the paper and summation of key point’s into a few paragraphs

An annotated Bibliography

The women of Bennet College led a sit –in movement launched in Greensboro, North Carolina in the February 1960 where the students led a non-violent action to attract attention and pass a message out. Deidre B. Flower a Financial Analyst at Columbia University reviews how the launching of the movement represented a new phase in the social upheavals associated with the Civil Right Movement and how it saw into that the legal segregation in public places became unconstitutional overturning the ‘ Separate but Equal’ doctrine of the 18961.

Mary Frances Berry, And Justice for All examines the significant role played by the U.S Commission on Civil Rights (CCR). Having been formed in 1957 with the help of President Dwight D. Eisenhower after crises in the South, CCR went past political purposes to ensure that the blacks were able to exercise their voting rights and equality within the Law.

Through reviewing Anthony Chen’s Fifth Freedom, the article will examine the historical affirmative actions taken by the business elites, northern conservatives and southern Democrats towards the formation of the permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC). Successfully fending off FEPC legislation, laid the ground work for a court-oriented, color-conscious system of anti-discriminations enforcement-affirmative actions that became abhorrent to the sensibility of their political progeny.

Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle did not start in the 1950s with the ruling of ‘Brown Vs Board of Education’ where the no segregation in education systems was decided but through this journal it is clear that the struggles goes back to the 1930s when the black American’s social structures took an increasingly urban, proletarian character. Therefore through this journal we examine the effects of the migration and transformation of the Southern rural population to a major ethnic group and its contribution to the liberation of the blacks6.

In locating the Civil Rights Movement, South Carolina is featured to have played key roles. This piece examines crucial people such as Modjeska Simkins, John H. McCray among other African Americans and their determination and strategies employed towards liberation.

The Journal by Paul Moreno further reviews Anthony Chen’s Fifth Freedom and describes how todays antidiscrimination policies might have been different had liberals’ intentions dominated.

Through the review of the social Forces Journal, the article will review how organizational diversity is beneficial to social movements through analysis of black civil rights organizations. Goal and tactical diversity of a social movement is largely a function of organizational density, level of resources available to the movement, and the number of protests initiated by the movement9.

The Journal of African American History explores the actions of Daddy Grace and the contribution of the Black Church.

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