Have black people in America achieved equality?

One of the most important achievements that the civil rights movement had was getting black Americans the right to vote to achieving equality between white and black people. The process of how this achievement was achieved was first by a protest lead by Martin Luther King and certain other people. This march was from Selma to a building in Montgomery, Alabama. On the first        

March in February 1965 770 people were arrested. Later on the second march led by John Lewis and Horsea Williams mounted police attacked the protestors. These’s marches had worried president Lyndon B Johnson as a result of this he had sent law enforcements to protect the protestors. Later on 25th March Martin Luther King handed Governor George Wallace a petition signed by over 25,000 black Americans demanding voting rights which had angered the Ku Klux Klan (Racist Organisation) who killed viola Liuzzo while returning from the march. Fortunately for the black Americans in 6th August 1965 President Lyndon B Johnson signed the voting right act. This had meant black Americans by law had the right to vote in elections with white people. This had achieved equality by getting both races black and white to join the right of being able to vote equally.

One of the other important achievements that the civil rights movement achieved was ending segregation. This movement was achieved by using 2 types of methods called Freedom Rides and lunch boycotts. The Freedom Rides included protesting in the state busses to obstruct people in boarding the busses which caused a lot of disruption in the intension to lose the state business and money which would result in the law ending segregation. This was similar in Lunch boycotting where the state loss money but not in the method where in this case black Americans stopped going to the lunch encounter to hurt the pockets of the owners of the businesses . These methods were really effective as segregation was ended in 1954 even though there is this segregation to this day. This achievement meant that black and white people could apply for the same job, use the same facilities and sit and eat together than separating into different rooms. This achievement had achieved equality by getting black and white to learn to share the thing they have, to realise that the skin colour they have does not matter and shouldn’t depend on if they should be in the same room.

The one problem that still exists today preventing black Americans from achieving equality is the economic side of what black people earn as it has been proven that black people today still earn less than what white people do.