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Black Rights
Title: Black Rights
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 724 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Black Rights
The quest for equality by black Americans played a central role in the struggle for civil
rights in the postwar era. Stemming from an effort dating back to the Civil War and
Reconstruction, the black movement had gained more momentum by the mid-twentieth
century. African Americans continued to press forward for more equality through
peaceful demonstrations and protests. But change came slowly indeed. Rigid segregation
of public accommodations remained the ruled in the South, despite …showed first 75 words of 724 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 724 total…he wanted was for blacks and whites to be equal. The seperation gap has
become less wide though. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed and it outlawed racial
discrimination in all public accommodations, and in 1965, the Voting Rights Act was
passed. This Act allowed federal examiners to register black voters where necessary.
There is still a long way to go in the fight against discrimination, but we are moving closer
and closer each day.
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