Civil Rights

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Civil Rights has always been a major issue in the history of
America. There have been many struggles and battles over
this issue in our history. From the 1940’s on, America was
segregated in many ways. African Americans had to drink
from different water fountains, were not allowed to sit at
the front of the bus, and there were two different schools,
one for the colored kids and one for the white kids. There
were many efforts throughout the years to try and get rid of
this horrible segregation, but at many times it led to
trouble rather then helped. There was one major group that
came about to try and work on desegregation and they were
the NAACP, led by educated middle class African Americans.
The job of the NAACP was to try and fight discrimination in
the courts and improve black employment opportunities. They
very much thrived on doing this in a non-violent manner, and
most of the time unfortunately it did turn out to be violent
in one way or another. There were many cases that the NAACP
backed up, one of most importance was Brown vs. Board of
Education which decision outlawed school segregation. This
is very important in the history of civil rights because why
shouldn’t a black person have the same opportunities a white
person has for education? This decision led to many other
boycotts for African Americans. Such things as the
Montgomery bus boycott which brought forth a very important
man in the fight for equality. Martin Luther King Jr. head
up a new organization called the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, and worked on the Civil Rights Act of
1957. Segregation was especially bad in the South, one
incident included a young black boy who allegedly whistled
at a white women, only 14 years old got lynched. This shows
the severity of segregation in the south. By 1960 changes
began to arise, a new case, Boynton vs. Virginia outlawed
segregated bus, train stations, airport termi...