Explain the reasons why the civil rights movement has failed to achieve in practice, equal rights for black people in the USA.

        Changes in people’s attitudes also showed a form of acceptance upon black achievement. Many more black people manage to become a recognized figure, for example a singer. People like Stevie Wonder was and still is an example of this acceptance. As more black people succeeded, confidence among the black community increased as gave more goals to try and strive and achieve. Political influence among the black community played a role in increasing confidence and knowledge. People like Colin Powell and Jesse Jackson managed to accomplish well recognized positions with the American government. This portrayed them as serious, powerful and intelligent people who have major responsibility within the government. This made many people realize, especially in the south that black people were easily capable of achieving providing that they have the right assets to do so. This remained a big problem, as the majority of black people at the time did not have the opportunity or resources to succeed.

        Economic progress was also apparent at this point in time. The status of more black Americans in the USA gradually amended to be known as middle class. These included doctors, teachers, lawyer etc.

Although there were signs of improvement, it could not be colossal enough to compare with the continuity in the USA at this time. Continuity of attitudes when looked as a whole was still present. Some of these attitudes were extreme, resulting to resorting to violence and brutality on black people. For police brutality became a big issue when Rodney King was brutality attacked in a racist act by the police force that happened to be white officers. But people tried to overcome this in various ways. One example was in Watts, a “black section” of Los Angels. Here a five day riot was proceeded with to demonstrate over police brutality and racism. Also, the majority of people that were currently on deathrow were black which indicated that a problem existed with the USA that made some black people victims of false allegations.

        When you look at politics too at the stage of time, you can see a clear indication of a very inconsiderable amount of black people contributing to it. Many people could not accept the idea of a black person having such authority and power with in the government. There was a clear exclusion of opportunity for black people to achieve such a position of status and power. You can argue and say that this can be shown using the example that the USA has never had a black president, even up to this day. Another point that reflects that the civil rights moment failed to achieve is the idea of the poverty trap. This was the idea that if a black person lived in a ghetto, there was really no way out and achieving something as opportunities and resources were greatly limited, if any.

            To conclude on my essay, I would say that when you examine and compare the continuity and change gained from the civil rights, there were a lot of changes but the continuity was still present which played a major role on the way black Americans were seen. That is why the civil rights movement failed to achieve in practice, equal rights for black people in the USA.