The Civil Rights Movement, By Martin Luther King s...

he African Civil rights movement is a period of time where sequences of events caused changes in attitudes and social operations, which spread across America and in turn also caused other sequences of events that proliferated their rebellion of the past attitudes. The movement rebelled against the overt racism that plagued ‘The Land of the Free,’ which has caused suffering for countless. This movement lasted roughly from the mid 1950’s to late 60’s, however there is no real definition of the start and end. It is generally accepted to say it started in 1955 when Emmett Till tragically died and became the singular, powerful catalyst that sparked the movement by setting aflame conflict and tensions built up for centuries. On the other hand,†¦show more content†¦The detrimental effects and be observed in the miniscule amount of African Americans that graduated from High School or even received higher education. This is seen when Mamie Till, Emmett Till’s mother, graduated from her district school for coloured, Argo Community High School, in 1938 and had been the fourth ever to do so in its long history. Furthermore, they cannot access justice as observed in the infamous Scottsboro Trials were 9 Boys were convicted of rape. In court, not only the standard of proof has not been met, there a reasonable doubt and but the defense has compiled ove rwhelming evidence that showed no such event occurred. Only in 2013 19th April, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley officially pardoned and exonerated all nine Scottsboro Boys that were dead at the time. The justice system that denoted the term democracy where ‘everyone has a say’ has been defiled by prejudice and is exemplified by the biased selection process where only where white males are admitted for jury service. When the bulwark of a society has been compromised is when you know when change needs to happen. They were slaves a generation ago, and now they want to be our equals? This is the attitude that clouded people judgment and morals; the core attitude to the white supremacists. This objection manifested as the KKK, a secret society devoted to kill and torture African Americans. They lynched countless in their sadistic method people and even terrorized whites that helped