How did the Civil Rights Movement accomplish change?

Question

How did the Civil Rights Movement accomplish change?

Answer 1

Well, lets see.  The Civil Rights bill of 1957 was so completely watered down by a couple of senators (John F. Kennedy and Lynon B. Johnson) that both had to be called on the carpet by the President (Eisenhower) who had requested the "Civil Rights" bill AND singlehandedly desegregated the military.  Funny how they show their true colors behind closed doors when they think no one is looking...

But the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, I remember "Whites Only" drinking fountains and doors that have long since vanished.  Jobs that were once only available to whites have now become available to all.  No more "red lining" practices in the real estate market, meaning, if you have the money, you can buy it regardless of your color.  And of course, everyone's favorite, "Affirmative Action" which created a double standard allowing a serious lowering of standards for minorities while maintaining the higher standard for whites, which then made the accomplishments of anyone of "color" suspect.  It gave birth to Kwanza and National African-American History Month.  It's a shame the direction it's all gone.  We invent history to make people feel better about themselves and we go out of our way to demonstrate our differences instead of what makes us the same.

Answer 2

THE BIGGEST most IMPORTANT ways the Civil Rights Movement accomplished change were:

1)  THEY WERE HONEST PEOPLE who did not want any more than any US natizen should want to have, but they did not want to be excluded from what any US natizen could have!

2) THEY WERE NON-VIOLENT and PRO-JUSTICE people!  They wanted the US Constitution to be ENFORCED and they were willing to stand in the line to protest in spite of dangers to themselves, which really took guts!  But they never went on a rampage (those incidents are highly questionable as to WHO caused the riots and rampages... it has been documented that in some cases at least, the police departments themselves either orchestrated, assisted or ignored a number of those incidents!

3)  THEY WERE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, many with college and university degrees -- and I am talking about our African American collegues when I say this -- and they treated the Civil Rights Movement as a chess match -- but not as a game -- in their strategies to show the evil of the "separate but equal" dogma.  Many of them were attorneys who posed strong case history law suits (or, at least they tried and sometimes were blocked due to the fact that their law suits would cause case history!!!!)  Even theists like Dr. Martin Luther King was a university graduate, and pronounced violence as just as wrong as the wrongfulness of prejudice itself!

4)  THEIR COMMON VALUES WITH ALL JUST PEOPLES' COMMON VALUES OF MORAL JUSTICE WERE UPHELD, so that many caucasians joined them because it was obvious how the wrongs committed were inhumanly anti-US-American !!!!!!!!!!!!  That was what they promoted, something I think that many African American children miss when they present school papers about Dr. Martin Luther King day, that the values of our Declaration of Independence and of our U.S. Constitution -- with all of their faults -- were still UNIVERSAL in their presentation, which means that if ANYONE can be denied their rights, then EVERYONE can be denied their rights, and people of all races recognized this and joined in the civil rights movement.

Personally, I feel that Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and others all struggled for MY rights as a caucasian man JUST AS MUCH as they struggled for their own rights because in reality, THEY WERE STRUGGLING FOR EVERYONE'S CIVIL RIGHTS!  I do not see where our African American brothers and sisters and their young daughters and sons ever specified that they wanted rights only for any particular one race!  They always said they wanted the civil and Constitutional rights that were intended for ALL persons of EVERY color, and I truly believe every word that Dr. Martin Luther King ever said about race relations and civil rights!

Dr. Martin Luther King is one of the civil rights heros recognized by Green Party of the United States, and I am proud that he and others are recognized by Green Party, the only political party in our nation that has grass-roots Democracy written into its party platform.... the ONLY party!

Answer 3

Actually it was a movement sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations to bring African Americans up to prominence in the fields of entertainment.

Answer 4

By raising American's Consiousness about racial inequalities between Blacks & Whites in many parts of the Country. By doing so, Injustices were Exposed & Laws were inacted to make such disparities- a crime.