Other reasons for black disagreement were that the change was occurring but it was slow and new laws were being made to provide blacks with civil rights but they were still the poorest section of the US society. Blacks began to disagree amongst themselves because non-violence had been an extremely successful way to force change in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Blacks also began to disagree because most blacks still lived in extreme poverty and needed immediate changes to improve their lives and white violence and racism against blacks had not stopped as civil rights grew. Moreover, Blacks began to disagree because young blacks saw non-violence as too slow and not effective enough. Blacks also began to disagree amongst themselves because blacks in extreme poverty had little to loose by fighting. Blacks began to disagree because non-violence had gained support from the white community. Furthermore, Blacks began to disagree amongst themselves because black violence seemed to be forcing change. Blacks began to disagree amongst themselves because educated middle class blacks had different priorities to uneducated working class blacks.
Civil rights is a right to citizenship, all citizens in a country have civil rights. They have legal, social and economic equality. It is a law intended to give people legal protection to help them be free. However, in the 1960’s blacks disagreed amongst themselves to gain civil rights.
Blacks felt that they deserved better and more effective civil rights because they thought that they didn’t have the same rights as whites. Blacks wanted the same facilities because whites thought they were inferior because they had bigger and better facilities.
In the 1950’s lots had been achieved for example in May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka generally agreeing that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. This was a victory for the NAACP. In August 1954 the fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was visiting his family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and he was dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two men were then arrested for the murder and an all-white jury acquitted them. In December 1, 1955 the NAACP member Rosa Parks refused to give her seat at the front of the ‘coloured section’ of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott, which lasted for more then a year, until the buses got desegregated. In January-February 1955 the establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Martin Luther King the first President. The SCLC became a major force in organising the civil rights movement and it was based on the principles of non-violence and civil disobedience. According to King, it was essential that the civil rights movement did not sink to the level of the racists and hate mongers who opposed them. King urged ‘we must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. In September 1957 the formerly all-white Central High School learned that integration was easier said then it was actually
