Group #4: The Civil Rights Movement
a. When did the civil rights movement begin?
b. What was the civil rights movement about?
c. State some of the significant incidents that took place in the civil rights movements (choose 2-3 incidents and state them briefly not in great detail)
d. Which American President supported the civil rights movement?
e. What was the outcome of this movement?
f. In what way is the Civil Rights movement related to TKAM?
Group #4: The Civil Rights Movement
a. When did the civil rights movement begin?
b. What was the civil rights movement about?
c. State some of the significant incidents that took place in the civil rights movements (choose 2-3 incidents and state them briefly not in great detail)
d. Which American President supported the civil rights movement?
e. What was the outcome of this movement?f. In what way is the Civil Rights movement related to TKAM?
Samuel- #a)
Started before World War 1 during the Great Depression. During the Great
Depression took place around 1929 and the early 1940s, it is believed that the seeds of the
Civil Rights Movement were planted at that time, and this would spark the Civil Rights Movement
later on. However the spike in the world wide Civil Rights Movement was around the 1950s and 1980s. And In
1948 Truman signs an Executive Order, which states the everyone in the armed forces are equal, and this was
the first step of the Civil Right Movement in the US.
Wei Jun- #b)
The civil rights movement was a political movement aiming for equality before the law occurring between the 1950s and 1980s. It was then followed by civil rest and in many countries, this movement did not reach its goals. It did let to many improvements in the law and legal rights of previously oppressed groups.
Alex- #c)
May 1961
The "Freedom Riders"
In May of 1961, a group of civil rights activists sought to "test" enforcement of a recent Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in bus terminals. The group consisted of black and white, male and female. They boarded two busses in Washington, D.C. and were bound to New Orleans. Over the course of the journey, the Freedom Riders and sympathizers were beaten at an Alabama bus terminal. One of their buses was firebombed as well.
September 15, 1963
Birmingham Bombing
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four young girls who were in the church for Sunday school and injured another 20 people.
The FBI sent agents to investigate and four suspects were identified. However, the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, refused and claimed that civil rights activists themselves bombed the church to gain public sympathy. The FBI initially closed the case in 1968.
The suspects were four members of the Ku Klux Klan. It took nearly 40 years for them to be brought to justice.
Yu Hao-#d)
President Kennedy support for a civil right bill in 1963 was celebrated internationally. He also hope to put off addressing civil rights as he hope that the civil rights initiative does not affect his domestic proposal. Assasination of President Kennedy was to stop the pass of 1964 civil rights act. Thus, President Kennedy was the one who supported Civil Rights Movement and nearly died in the support.
Sheng Xiang- #e)
Because of the Civil Rights Movement, the Africans’ society changed drastically and have the same equal rights as the whites now. More and more opportunities and chances are given to the black and more of the leadership positions are taken up by the black, such as the President of United States, Barack Obama. The perspective and viewpoint of the white is also changing and they begin to accept the black slowly.
Yong Chun-#f)
The Civil Rights Movement is related to To Kill a Mockingbird as in To Kill a Mocking Bird, there were many examples of racism occurring in the country, as well as the fact that the people there were too stubborn to change. This is shown in the Civil Rights Movement as they had faced the problem of racism being influenced in the minds of the people, such as in To Kill a Mocking Bird despite 1 person having mental problems,
stabbing his parents’ leg, the judge still thought it was “inhumane” to place him together with the Negroes, or black Africans from the South, this is one example of racism in To Kill a Mocking bird, in the Civil Rights movement, whose aim was to clear racial discrimination and promote Human Rights among countries lower in the south such as Missisipi,and the problem of the KKK, preventing the black people from voicing out their opimon in TKAM as well, disallowing them of their rights.
Reflection:
Personally, I feel that the setting up of Civil Rights Movement was a very good decision by the American President, President Kennedy. It helps to bring peace among the blacks and whites and settle the misunderstandings between the 2 races that lasted for many many years. This would further enhance the whole country's infrastructure as having peace for both sides, it would boost the country's economy by a lot as production would not be affected due to a peaceful workforce. Civil Rights movement provided a policy for both the white and blacks so that there would not be any bias for either one side. This is to maintain equality to stop all the "disastrous situations" to happen again. When they are united, no problems such as recession could blocked their way to succeed for the next few decades.
In conclusion, having this policy, USA has improved tremendously as both Blacks and Whites worked peacefully for 50 years down the road.
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