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The civil rights movements which took place after several factors contributed to the world war. However, there is one main thing which, in my opinion, catalyzed the changes. The segregation that was instituted against the African Americans at the time is what caused the civil rights movements to take roots. The African Americans south to be included and treated fairly as the other whites. There was a consensus that the Americans had gained racism from the Europeans (Michael, & Ari 2018). There are several sectors in which African Americans were segregated. The first thing is segregation in education, where schools were established separately for the blacks (Hale, 2016). The issue had been resolved under the 5th amendments in the Supreme Court, in the case of Brown vs. Board, where Brown won (Bloom, 2019). The Supreme Court ordered that it was discriminative to have black students study separately with the white student.
The black was also segregated in the residential area where the blacks lived in the ghettos and were not allowed to own homes in the middle-class suburbs (Riches, 2017). It was restricted by the covenants which used to be made both legally and illegally. In these covenants, whites had to sign an agreement that if they had to sell their house in the suburbs, they should sell to the fellow whites (Levy, 209). Another thing at contrite to segregation, and thus the CRM was the soldiers who returned from the war in Europe been treated harshly and denied the promises they had been given during the war. In as much as the African Americans were allowed to get to college, it was too difficult for them both joining and even after joining where they would be bullied and also denied their legal education (Andrews et al., 2016). These segregations caused a lot of anger among the Africa Americans and thus needed a revolution that initiated the civil rights movement.
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Andrews, K. T., Beyerlein, K., & Tucker, Farnum, T. (2016). The legitimacy of protest: explaining White Southerners’ attitudes toward the civil rights movement. Social Forces, 94(3), 1021-1044.
Bloom, J. M. (2019). Class, race, and the civil rights movement. Indiana University Press.
Hale, J. N. (2016). The freedom schools: Student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement. Columbia University Press.
Levy, P. B. (2019). The Civil Rights Movement: A Reference Guide. ABC-CLIO.
Michael, B. & Ari, C. (2018).The Cold War: The American Yawp, eds. Joseph Locke and Ben Wright: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/text/25-the-cold-war/
Riches, W. (2017). The civil rights movement: Struggle and resistance. Macmillan International Higher Education.