African American Civil Rights Movement
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF 1964
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The Civil Rights movement results from the African American Civil
Rights movement completely transformed the lives of African
Americans and helped to integrate public schools, places and help them get their natural rights back. From the earliest of time, white people enslaved and frowned upon African Americans. In the southern states, African Americans were not allowed to even associate with whites. This is what we call segregation. African
Americans were not allowed to use public restrooms, schools, nursing homes, water fountains, busses, trains, parks and beaches, movie theaters, concert halls, and restraunts that whites used. Many places would post signs that would say that African Americans were not allowed to come in or use whatever they were trying to use. . Of course, African Americans were so frowned upon by white people that they were called worse names and never referred to “African
Americans” instead, “Negroes or Niggers”. Since the discrimination of
African Americans was so bad, it was hard for any of them to get a job, go to school, or to have any citizenship whatsoever. The southern states were by far the worst for African Americans, in other states beside the southern, African Americans had legal rights. Even
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Monday, November 4, 2013 8:54:59 AM Central Standard Time
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF 1964
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though there was still discrimination and some segregation issues, they did have legal rights. (Patterson)
In 1941, a man named Philip Randolph threatened to create an allblack march on Washington unless President Franklin D. Roosevelt acted to end racial discrimination in employment and segregation of the armed forces. The response was not exactly what Randolph wanted, Roosevelt agreed to a Fair Employment Practices
Committee to investigate employee practices. Randolph was not the only person to press for civil rights, as the war progressed,
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The Civil Rights movement results from the African American Civil
Rights movement completely transformed the lives of African
Americans and helped to integrate public schools, places and help them get their natural rights back. From the earliest of time, white people enslaved and frowned upon African Americans. In the southern states, African Americans were not allowed to even associate with whites. This is what we call segregation. African
Americans were not allowed to use public restrooms, schools, nursing homes, water fountains, busses, trains, parks and beaches, movie theaters, concert halls, and restraunts that whites used. Many places would post signs that would say that African Americans were not allowed to come in or use whatever they were trying to use. . Of course, African Americans were so frowned upon by white people that they were called worse names and never referred to “African
Americans” instead, “Negroes or Niggers”. Since the discrimination of
African Americans was so bad, it was hard for any of them to get a job, go to school, or to have any citizenship whatsoever. The southern states were by far the worst for African Americans, in other states beside the southern, African Americans had legal rights. Even
hamiltonko14
Monday, November 4, 2013 8:54:59 AM Central Standard Time
70:cd:60:7c:eb:ea
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF 1964
2
though there was still discrimination and some segregation issues, they did have legal rights. (Patterson)
In 1941, a man named Philip Randolph threatened to create an allblack march on Washington unless President Franklin D. Roosevelt acted to end racial discrimination in employment and segregation of the armed forces. The response was not exactly what Randolph wanted, Roosevelt agreed to a Fair Employment Practices
Committee to investigate employee practices. Randolph was not the only person to press for civil rights, as the war progressed,