The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement

a.     When the Civil Rights movements begin?

Ans: The Civil Rights movements began on December 1, 1955

b.     What were the Civil Rights movements about?

Ans: The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights in Southern states. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans.

c.      State some of the significant incidents that took place in the Civil Rights movements.

          Ans: The significant events include Brown v. Board of Education, 1954,         Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956 and Desegregating Little Rock, 1957. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: Spring 1951 was the year in which great turmoil was felt amongst Black students in reference to Virginia State’s educational system. At the time in Prince Edward County, Moton High School was segregated and students had decided to take matters into their own hands to fight against two things: the overpopulated school premises and the unsuitable conditions in their school. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. She was secretary of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and had recently returned from a meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy had been discussed. Desegregating Little Rock, 1957: Little Rock, Arkansas, was in a relatively progressive Southern state. A crisis erupted, however, when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard on September 4 to prevent entry to the nine African-American students who had sued for the right to attend an integrated school, Little Rock Central High School.

d.     Which American President supported the Civil Rights movements?

          Ans: John F. Kennedy

e.      What was the outcome of this movement?

Ans: Banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups.

f.       In what way is the Civil Rights movement related to the novel?

Ans: The setting of the novel is in the period of the civil rights movement where the blacks were still segregated with the whites. Tom was convicted in the novel because they discriminate the blacks.