This essay describes the origins of the Civil Rights Movement in America, it also addresses the position of black people in America today.

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The Civil Rights Movement

This essay describes the origins of the Civil Rights Movement in America, it also addresses the position of black people in America today.

   The essay argues that although the black and the white people are equal by law, there still is a long way to total equality in America.

The Civil Right Movement is the black people’s struggle for equal treatment. The segregation in the 1950s was fought when segregated schools became illegal and black children were allowed going to the same schools as white children. The black people still had to fight for their rights but now they had the law on their side.

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   The fight for desegregation on public buses was started in Montgomery by Rosa Parks who is known all over the world today, the trend then spread and people fought for desegregation in other places as well. When Martin Luther King held his speech “I have a dream” in 1963, I believe he lighted a hope in many African Americans. (O’Callaghan p. 112-113)

Making the Civil Rights Act a law was the first real decision that should make black and white people equal, but even then, there had to be changes in peoples minds and not only in ...

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