Civil Rights Movement Advantages

During this racially segregated time period in America, the black community was making strives to try and gain the rights that every white citizen had at this time. With many attempts comes many wins and failures. Some of the wins the black community had at this time period would be voting and general equality. The major failure though would be housing and schooling. With one of the first major wins being voting this was not an easy thing to overcome. Some of the ways they were oppressed at first was just simply not letting them vote. So, after much protesting and arguing they started to allow the black community to vote, but with a catch. Once the black community was allowed to vote the government started implementing literacy tests and poll taxes which kept the black community from voting yet again. So after

So now the black population is allowed to vote, but this didn’t mean that the racism would go away. Many black voters were still attacked when going to vote, they had to have people protect them when they went to the polls in order to keep the crowd of angry white citizens at bay. One major accomplishment during the civil rights movement was having the ability to vote without any strange testing or excessive taxing. Another major accomplishment during the Civil rights movement was the freedom to general equality rights. The black community was denied many rights, things as small as sitting in a are restricted to colored people. Why were such simple things made segregated? The answer to this is just so that the white community could seem to make themselves dominant over the black community through oppression. Many parts of town were segregated, which only made things escalate within the black community. One very well know protest was the bus boycotts, this all started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested. Immediately after that, the black community as a