Civil rights refers to fighting for equal rights between blacks and whites. It is an important part of history. From time to time, people have been fighting for civil rights for blacks in whites in the mid 1900’s. In fact, Bloody Sunday was probably one of the most important events to have an impact on history for civil rights. Everyday, people struggle to be treated equally and civil rights make it possible for everyone black or white to be treated equally. As a result of Bloody Sunday, this event helped blacks speak up and be heard.
The impact Bloody Sunday had on the early struggle for civil rights was, it was a march that first began with 600 people to fight for the rights of African-Americans to vote. On August 6th 1965, the Federal Voting
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The consequences of peaceful protesting is, the marchers from Selma to Montgomery, had to go back and march three times. The first march wasn 't what they wanted to achieve and got sent back to the bridge. The second march was when they were crossing the bridge. The police officers attacked them with stick, teargas, clubs, arrested innocent people, guns were fired, knocked people to the ground, whips, rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire was a weapon that the police officers whipped at the marchers. The third time they went to march, they won Federal Protection and they successfully marched for their cause. King wrote to New York Times, “This is Selma, Alabama. There are more negroes in jail with me than they are on the voting rolls.” (Klein 1). The National Guard helped them on the last march. No police officers could turn them back, and they couldn 't beat them in front of the National Guard. These innocent, peacefully protesting people were injured and one was shot and killed. Jimmy Lee Jackson was a 20 year old who was protecting his grandma and mom. He was struck by a club, then shot with a gun. Over 50 people were injured and hospitalized. A couple people died months later because of their injuries. These marchers were not interrupting anybody or bothering anything and the police officers had to take action. They were on the sidewalk of the highway and away from the officers and others. The officers thought they were going to do something bad so they took …show more content…
The officers stopped people from protesting, because, they were ordered to stop the protesters. There were a lot of reasons that the police officers stopped the protestors. They didn’t want the protest to be successful, they thought it wasn’t fair for both blacks and whites to vote. Major John Cloud ordered the 600 marchers, they had less than two minutes to leave. The marchers left the first time, but came back for a second time. The second time they came back, the marchers refused to turn back and got tear gas, beaten with sticks, injured, shot or had a gun pointed to their head, clubs and other weapons. The police officers were wearing protective gear, but the marchers were not. Police officers broke up the group of marchers and then beat them on the highway. The highway that the marchers were trying to cross was named Edmund Pettus bridge. On this march, they had governor George Wallace. George Wallace was the 45th governor of Alabama. He too believed that blacks should be treated equally. When the officers were arresting people, they arrested Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of the people who led the marchers from Selma to Montgomery. At night when everybody was marching or in the streets taking a break, police officers would come, shoot the lights out in the street so no marchers could see them. The police officers then beat them. Sometimes, the marchers would go in corn fields to get sleep instead of walking all night or sleeping on the streets. Cops and police
Entry 1 Chapter 22 talks about the good neighbor policy that was created by President Roosevelt. He had plans to improve diplomacy between the United States and its Latin neighbors by being a “good neighbor”. He felt the United States could offer Military intervention in those countries. He also tried to improve Soviet Relations by exchanging ambassadors. The American Indians had the opportunity to participate in the war efforts as “code talkers”.
While, protesting Martin Luther King Jr. was taken into custody because of him leading the peaceful protest in the streets of
King chose to organize a different kind of protest known as a "Demonstration" that required the demonstrators to march silently up and down the hill. Sadly, throughout the entire process, negroes were judged, beaten, and killed for no apparent reason. He says “You warmly praised the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence. " I don't believe you would have so warmly praised the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I don't believe you would so quickly commend the policemen if you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes here in the city jail, watching them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls, slapping and kicking old Negro men and young boys, or refusing to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together.
The men that were involved were completely out of control. They were refusing to leave government property and resisting removal which is an offence against the law. The third argument that we have is the bonus army breaking the law as hoover was trying to up hold it there were about 1000 marchers armed with clubs that made an organization and were violent in beating people which made it difficult for the police department to maintain law and order except by the free use of fire arms present of the federal troops will result in fearless
However, they didn’t make it very far before they were met by violent white state and local lawmen on the outskirts of Selma. Here they were attacked and assaulted with billy clubs and tear gas before returning to Selma. This event later became known as “Bloody Sunday.” Over 50 marchers were severely
The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal. That is the foundation of our country and yet less than one percent of African Americans were registered to vote during the Civil Rights era. A total of three attempts were made to try to get the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The first two resulted in chaos and brutality by the local and state authorities and only when the National Guard was called in, by President Johnson, were the marchers ensured safety across the bridge. Some would say that this was an “unlawful assembly” and that everyone participating should be forced to disperse because they had no permit.
Peaceful resistance to laws positively affect a free society. Throughout history, there have been multiple cases of both violent and peaceful protests. However, the peaceful protests are the ones that tend to stick with a society and are the ones that change the society for the better. In April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter about just and unjust laws while he was in Birmingham jail for peacefully protesting. King came to Birmingham because "injustice is here".
The Civil Rights Movement started in 1954 and continued until 1968. The Civil Rights Movement was a strive for the rights and the freedoms that African Americans had been given, but taken away from by things such as the Jim Crow Laws and segregation. The Civil Rights Movement had goals of gaining equal rights but also making the fundamental documents that America had been constructed upon to be true for everyone in America. These fundamental documents include the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Peaceful protests turned violent because of the pressure from the authority, like the Bloody Sunday protest
Opinions vary whether the action was successful. Most of the planned blockades held only briefly if at all because most of the protestors were arrested before they got into position. More than 14,000 police were mobilized to remove the radicals from the streets and staggered 13,500 people were placed under arrest. Even if the protestors failed, they still made a large impact on the outlook of the Vietnam
One of the major goals of the American Civil Rights Movement was to give all people, regardless of race, equal rights. Many people fought for their rights, no matter how dangerous it was. Events that occured made it possible for blacks to be able to be equal with whites. The murder of Emmett Till, helped many people find the courage to stand up against violence. There were many events that caused Emmett Till to be murdered.
They expressed their protest by sitting. It was highly effective because it initiated by black students. When Martin Luther King was in jail, the leaders in Birmingham decided a new strategy. A group of black children would march in Birmingham to protest against racism. If the children of Birmingham couldn’t awake American’s conscience, they thought, then nothing would.
Civil rights helped a lot of people during the rough 1930s-1960s. Many people struggled during this time period. Some people even lost their lives fighting for their rights. Jimmie Lee Jackson stood against segregation and dedicated his life to his rights. Jimmie Lee Jackson made a big impact in the civil rights time.
Introduction: The civil rights movement of 1954-1968 has made a huge impact on the history of African-American equality. All the great leaders of the movement have gone down in history for their courageous work and outstanding commitment to the civil rights movement. One of the most famous of the activists was Martin Luther King Junior (1929-1968) . King is still remembered today for his legendary speech entitled “I had a dream”.
Peaceful Resistance no matter what way you look at it, it 's still going against someone whether it involves words or actions, resistance still causes more conflict. The last 5 years we have had people say they want change through these “peaceful protest” but these peaceful protests have done nothing but turn to violent riots were theirs damage to vehicles, business families rely on destroyed, bystanders hurt, officers killed and our country torn apart. Back when Martian Luther King Jr was around and he had his Peaceful Resistance or rallies for equality, they were peaceful and brought our country together with something that needed to be changed, but the protest we’ve had the last 5 years… he would be ashamed of. Peaceful Resistance to laws does negatively impact our free society in America. First going along with what I said about there being “peaceful rallies” even though some people may be at these rallies to make a difference to support their opinion, not everyone can respect that.