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society is to confront our past...we need to recognize it for what it was and is and not
explain away, excuse it, or justify it. Having done that, we should make a good faith
effort to turn our history around so that we can see it in front of us, so that we can avoid
doing what we have done for so long.” Attempts to reverse centuries of inequality
through assenting action and cultural self-determination are not attacks on whites, as
such, but on the system of racism. The goal of these strategies is not to turn the present
racial order on its head but rather to achieve an anti-racist society where all individuals
have the right to dignity, power, self-determination, and expectation of equal outcomes
for the value of their unique contributions to society (Derman-Sparks, pg. 26). The Civil
Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all
Americans, regardless of race after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches,
ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led
. . .
Every Civil Rights Movement was key in the decline of racial discrimination in the
United States. African American’s sat at “white only” lunch counters
refusing to leave until served. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 put an end to literacy
test, authorized federal examiners to register voters in areas suspected of denying African
Americans the right to vote. as you seek to explain to
your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park.
“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging dark of segregation to say,
‘Wait’. Several factors were demanded of from the March on Washington
including; Passage of "meaningful" civil-rights legislation at this session of Congress. Everyone is born racist no matter who, what, where or
why. The 1960’s version of fast- food restaurants had
segregated lunch counters. then
you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. “Racism is the deepest level of hurt that can be
placed on a society”(Derman- Sparks, 9) yet everyday the act of discrimination is
shown everyday among all people. It included
an important ban of federal funds towards programs that discriminated against blacks and
helped guarantee black suffrage. (Angel fire) On July 2, 1964, President Johnson passed the most
extensive civil rights legislation called the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it incorporated many
of the measures that the activists had pushed for at the March on Washington. (Briggs, 304)
In June of 1963, President Kennedy televised a speech to guarantee the civil
rights of African Americans. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and
drown your sisters and brothers at whim;.
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