What was the outcome of the civil rights movement?

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I'm writing a research paper on the civil rights movement

Answer 1

"Was" is in the past tense. The civil rights movement is alive and well. Although such items as poll tax and segregation were done away with, there is still a lot to be done. Some people are right, that reverse discrimination was a result but not to the detriment of the cause. The point about minority versus majority. The majority is responsible to make sure the minority does have its rights assured. Such was not the case before. Most people, as evidenced on here, seem to think that if the majority wants it, it is right. We just have to be carful not to get carried away and then denigrate the rights of the majority.
One of the main outcomes is that "minorities" ahve been able to elect a "minority" to represent them. Cases in point; Thurgood Marshall, Henry Cisneros, Bill Richardson, Dianne Finestein.

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whatever benefits were won by the civil rights movement (and these were many and substantial), ultimately the result was fatigue and malaise. since the early 1970's there has been a general surrender of the ideals which made citizens work so hard to create and protect civil rights for all citizens. nobody seems to hold these ideals dear anymore, and the attitude which seems to be held by most people is that there is no point trying to do anything about civil rights and creating a fir, equitable, and just society and our differences are irreconcileable. we should be ashamed of what we have allowed to happen to the tremendous advances in civil liberties that were made 50 years ago. they were great then, but they have all been undone now, by people on every side of the issue.

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The modern American Civil Rights Movement began after World War II and was most active across the South and the North from 1951 through the mid 1960's. The major songs o f the Movement were not pop songs like "Respect". The"*****" National Anthem: LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING was the major formal public song used bu the S.C.L.C. the southern Christian Ledership Council, and the NAACP and others in marches and protests across the country. Many traditional and Southern regional songs were sung to keep people's spirits up and to communicate changes in strategy musically, without police and bigots knowing. The Civil Rights songs that were adopted in the 1950's and 1960's were ones that the basic poor black people in those cities and towns decided to sing while they were holding long meetings and rallies that were key to making actions like the Montgomery Bus Boycott work. churches and meeting halls, and people's homes in many States used song as a tool of cohesion and it was most effective in communicating the reality of the American South. Thousands of black people were arrested in many Southern States like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, georgia, Tennesee, Florida and others, and held in crowded jails and places for days, much unike modern systems now. they sang together to show unity and communal support and to pass the time and show defiance to racists there.. Black Americans have, more than any one other source, reshaped and revitalized the old English music that the English settlers brought with them. Throughout the South, and any State that had slaves, which originally was all of them, slaves devised and invented ways of expressing their dealing with a harsh, violent, repressive and hopeless life in that instituional bondage. Slave chanting and work songs developed into the gospel and religious hyms that so influenced white institutions. Jazzz, was an original expression by a people who, in the deep South, were so financially downtrodden, that they invented makeshift instuments, and a way of blending them to make a riched and effective sound. The structure of the early Jazz performers was based mostly on the unavailability of modern, costly instuments, and the adaptations of self made musical instruments as the washboard bass and broom fiddle. An harmanica was cheap, a clarinet was not so it was used instead. People made guitars and drums until they could bet second hand ones. Louis Armstrong played a cheaper horn because a full trimpet was very costly. He made his little horn do more witrh his imagination and the creative adjustments of these genius musicians. The Mississippi Delta Blues came out of one of the poorest areas on the entire country. It's sounds and usage of language was ingenious and it changed the way all American music was played. R&B and more commercial music, like Aretha's, Curtis Mayfiekd and the Impression's: PEOPLE GET READY, Harry Belefonte and many others widened the public's education about what was happening. The music was another form of speech in the protest, just like Irish Protest songs and Labor songs by Woody Guthrie were effective in the Us laboe movement in the 1920's and 30's. Music is the most human communication.

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The outcome was greater equality among people. Although there are still hints of racism today, after Martin Luther King and the civil disobedience that they acted upon, true segregation and racism died, and because of that we don't have to live today with signs that say "whites only" over bathrooms and drinking fountains.

Answer 6

It never ceases to amaze me how much racism shows up on this website....Come'on guys, the person asking for help here is doing homework. Saying stuff like that would never fly in a classroom.

And Sane, but "total ruin of the social structure" do you mean the destruction of a segregated society where African Americans (forcibly brought here as slaves) were treated as second class citizens and Jim Crow laws allowed legal (or tolerated) lynching? I'd love to see the argument that there would be as many African Americans in this country as there are had slavery not existed. Go ahead, argue it. Otherwise, grow up.

Moving on... the Civil Rights outlawed De Jure segregation. De Jure segregation as you should know is Segregation mandated by law. For example, African Americans could NOT sit in front of the busses in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested for it, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. African Americans and other minorities could all of the sudden have any job, be in any office of government, live anywhere they wanted, ect... right?

wrong. It did not outlaw De Facto segregation. De Facto segregation "just happens." We as people tend to segregate ourselves. White kids hang out with white kids, African Americans with other African Americans, Hispanics with other Hispances, ect... for the most part at least. Many white people will not vote for, hire, or date someone of minority descent, the same minorities in reverse order.. by that I mean many African Americans will not date or hire whites. There is no way to make De Facto segregation illegal, with the exception of fair hiring practices... even then it is difficult to enforce. You cannot be forced to hang out with people of other races.

Someone above brought up reverse discrimination or segregation... or something, I dunno. A lot of people argue against Affirmative Action, another result of the Civil Rights Movement. They are saying that it is reverse discrimination. Affirmative action sometimes sets quotas... or "goals" of how many people of a certain race to hire. The argument is many times white people get shafted because they are more qualified for a job than someone of minority descent gets simply because of their race. I can't say if Affirmative Action is right or wrong because you are not asking for my opinion on it, but all I can say is that both sides have very good points. On the one hand, someone will say it's a neccesary evil to ensure African Americans and other minorities are treated fairly, on the other hand someone will say that it should be survival of the fittest, and that white people should not get shafted in the process. As I said, both sides make very good points.

I realize this is more than you asked for, but make sure when you do your research you don't listen to people who may have hidden agendas. People who say the Civil Rights Movement was a overall a bad thing (I'm not saying it did not have unintended negative consequences) are usually somewhat racist themselves. Clearly the Civil Rights Movement needed to happen. All you have to know is history to see that. Just an observation.

Answer 7

Reverse discrimination. Total ruin of the social structure.

Answer 8

In the end, all minorities of any kind got whatever rights they demanded, and white males get shafted....