SNCC And The Betrayal Of The Kennedy Administration

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losophical significance of “by all means necessary” they will almost always respond that it was the opposite of that of Martin Luther King jr. strategy and fail to realize its actual significance. Ask that same student the relationship between King and X and they will say they were opposing activist, which is not correct. They actually worked together in the sense that Malcolm X’s strategy wasn’t to oppose King but to enforce King’s strategy to the white man, sending a message that if you don’t give in to King’s non-violent approach then they will have to deal with Malcolm X’s approach#. If you ask a student about Rosa Parks and her significance they will fail to realize that she was secretary of the NAACP that she was an activist and this action was not the first. Rosa Parks did this several times and received fines but this time she was arrested, that is what made her the perfect candidate to oppose the laws of segregation on public transportation#. As the years go by the Civil Rights Movement’s importance dissipates and is watered down to future students who will become future teachers, how will you teach what you have not learned? As the years pass we eliminate the struggle from the movement and teach it by implying that it was a pacifist movement, which indeed it wasn’t.

The Civil Rights Movement was more than these few people it was more. It was made up of people who made the leaders effective, and organizations those people formed protesting politically about injustice and drawing awareness to the world about the crude south through struggle#. I was once sitting among some elders in a park talking to a friend about black history month when some elders intervened. I don’t remember their names but I remember what one man said and the rest supported. He said, “a struggle is sacrifice, and suffrage without these elements you have mere achievement.” I didn’t understand what that meant for it w...