Civil Right's Coursework
...ce B we can see the clear segregation between the back and white students. Although there is some success that the black girl has enrolled at a white school, it looks as though the white students are taunting the black student. This trouble is what led to the failure of the Civil Right Movement, as not all states, for example Georgia and Mississippi were not complying with the new laws. The case of desegregation of schools shows the limitations of the Civil Right Movement, as although the law existed on paper, in reality many states did not follow those laws. Many states schools stayed segregated and even today, there is still fair amount of segregation. Martin Luther King was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Christian Minister who believed in a non-violent protest. Because of his religious belief that you should love the neighbour, he attracted the support of both black and white people. In source C , Martin Luther King himself highlights the fact that the movement made huge changes such as ‘desegregated lunch counter’ ‘an end to segregation in inter-state travel’ and also ‘the passing of the most powerful civil rights Law in the century’. These all show that progress w as made by the Civil Rights Movement ‘with minimum loss of life’. After Martin Luther King led 200,000 people through Washington in support of equal rights, the new civil rights laws that were passed meant that black people could vote. In Source E, we can see the percentages of black people who voted in different states of America. The majority of southern states, particularly Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama saw the greatest rise in black people’s votes. This may be caused gradually the white people of those states accepted black people were allowed to vote, so they stopped frightening them, leading to more black people taking part in elections. However, in both Tennessee and North Carolina, there was slight 1% fall in black people may not have been interested in voting. This fall in votes also reinforces the fact that although laws exist on paper, it is a very different matter to enforce them and to make sure that blacks do have equal rights, as law officials cannot watch everything, which goes behind closed doors. Overall I think that the Civil Rights Movement made an immense difference in improving the live of black American citizens. Conversely, both source B and source D show a slightly less positive outcome due to the actions of Civil Rights Movement. Source B shows those black students weren’t welcomed by their peers into white school environment. Source D shows one of many groups o...