'The Civil Rights Movement achieved a great deal in the 1950's and 1960's' Do sources C to J prove that this interpretation is correct?

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‘The Civil Rights Movement achieved a great deal in the 1950’s and 1960’s’

Do sources C to J prove that this interpretation is correct?

 In this piece of work I am going to analyse each source and see if there sufficient evidence to support this claim and if there is enough evidence I will show whether or not the source supports or goes against this claim. The first source I am going to look at is source C.

 I believe that this source does not give sufficient evidence to support a claim because the information that it displays is select and does not show enough evidence to show whether the claim made in my title was correct. However I can look at from a southern states point of view and on this small scale I believe that the source does support this claim slightly. It shows how in the 11 southern states shown there was an increase in the number of Negroes in 8 of the states, in the 6 years which it is comparing.

 Yet these improvements are very small amounts and there was even no progression in 3 of the states. So this information shows to me shows that very little progression has been made in the time that the data shows. The fact that Negroes still only made up around 3% of the total school population in the 11 schools highlights the miniscule effect the Civil Rights Movement had in this case.

 However I still believe that the source does not provide a sufficient amount of evidence to back either side of the title statement but the information that it does provide does not agree with the statement that the Civil Rights Movement achieved a great deal in the 50’s and 60’s because of the small amounts of progression that have been made in quite a lengthy time, around 6 years.

 

 Source D is a photograph which shows a large number of Negroes staging a march in Washington in 1963. The main way which this source supports the title statement is that this large number of blacks were being allowed to hold such a march straight through the capital of the country which they are being oppressed in and not be in fear. This shows that the Civil Rights Movement has achieved quite a notable feat because at the beginning of the movement marchers were treated poorly by both police and white opposers to the movement. The fact that the Negroes could march through one of the largest cities in America in full view of the public and the media shows that the movement has really achieved something since it began.

 But the source also disagrees with the statement because if the Negroes are still having to protest there must still be problems with inequality in the USA. The photograph was taken in 1963; 13 years after the civil rights movement began. This tells me that perhaps the Civil Rights Movement did not achieve as much as it should have in this time. This I believe to be a key reason why the source disagrees with the title reason.

 The next point links quite closely with the last because the banners which the protestors are holding in the photograph are a massive reason as to why the Civil Rights Movement did not achieve a great deal in the 1950’s and 1960’s. 3 of the banners say, “End segregation in public schools”, “We demand voting rights” & “We demand a stop to police brutality” These are 3 of the key issues that the Civil Rights Movement was trying to stop in America.

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 But because the Negroes were still marching for these issues 13 years after the movement began, I consider the title statement to be a contradiction to the evidence that this source provides.

 However the evidence this source does provide is not sufficient enough to make a claim for either side of the argument. Because the photograph was from a Washington DC march, it is unclear whether this was a national trend or whether these marches were restricted to certain areas. Because the march was in the north it is unclear whether these marches would be tolerated in the south or ...

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