Explain how blacks disagreed amongst themselves in the 1960s about the best way to try gain more civil rights

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Raimah Amevor 11D

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History Coursework: Explain how blacks disagreed amongst themselves in the 1960s about the best way to try gain more civil rights

             In 1964 the civil rights act was signed by president Johnson , it prohibited discrimination in public places, offered integrated schools and public places, and made employment discrimination illegal. African Americans were now given the same rights as white people and many things had improved. Black students where now given the choice to study in the same proper environment as there white counterparts, black people were being able to get proper jobs in order to build a life for themselves so they weren’t forced to rely and depend on the government. This civil rights act was a long time after all the protests, marches and suffering black people had endured. Although many incidents like little rock had helped to change the way black people where treated in America , civil rights was still an issue, this is because without the law passed black people had no real power in how they where treated. Originally protesting, marching,

Boycotting, and organized non-violent resistance was the way forward into  civil rights but as time went on many African Americans shunned these ways of gaining civil rights and sought alternative ways, but would these prove effective? And why where black people moving Away from these ideas , after all these methods had given them the right to be able to sit on a bus freely without fear of being told to move out of a seat or risk being thrown off the bus, and had changed many schools into integrated schools.

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          The NAACP where at first one of the most popular and largest groups, supported by afro-Americans all over America, founded in 1910 by a group of black and white intellectuals the NAACP fought for racial equality. Over the years the NAACP managed to bring change throughout America but by the early 1960s afro-Americans wanted change to come more quickly. Many of the leaders of the NAACP argued in how would be the best way to achieve change quicker. Martin Luther king was a  pacifist Christian who believed that although ...

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