Discuss the civil rights movement in the 1950s. What civil rights did blacks achieve in that decade?

Answer 1

The greatest civil rights achievement was the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS in 1954. This decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), declaring that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was inherently harmful. It mandated integration.

The Montgomery (AL) Bus Boycott (1956) tested the law and succeeded in integrating the buses. Before that, Blacks were required to give up their seats to any white person who wanted them and always had to sit in the back of the bus.

Answer 2

In the fifties were the birth of the civil rights struggle. The law had not passed until the sixties. When the law passed, blacks did not achieve the benefit. All minorites, gays and women were given the opportunity that they now have. Basically, all they had to do were sit back and let the blacks pay the price.

That is why it makes me sick to my stomach to hear illegals talk about their civil rights, which I do not know why they won't go back to Mexico and make sure they receive them.

Answer 3

The rights of blacks were originally established in the Constitution but the whites did not force theses laws until the 1950's. (Article III)

(KJV) Ps. 41:11 By this I known that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triump over me.

Answer 4

First of all it wasn't just blacks that acheived civil rights it was all colored people even some dark white french people suffered oppession, hell till now people think all blacks are from Africa, well we are not. They right to Vote and the right to same and equal education.

Peace

Answer 5

You discuss it, it's YOUR homework.

Answer 6

Civil Rights Acts of 1964

TITLE I

Voting Rights

Sec. 101.2. No person acting under color of law shall-

(A) in determining whether any individual is qualified under State law or laws to vote in any Federal election, apply any standard, practice, or procedure different form the standards, practices, or procedures applied under such law or laws to other individuals within the same county, parish, or similar political subdivision who have been found by State officials to be qualified to vote; . . . .

(C) employ any literacy test as a qualification for voting in any Federal election unless (i) such test is administered to each individual wholly in writing; and (ii) a certified copy of the test and of the answers given by the individual is furnished to him within twenty-five days of the submission of his request made within the period of time during which records and papers are required to be retained and preserved pursuant to Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. . . .

TITLE II

Injunctive Relief Against Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation

Sec. 201. (a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

(b) Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this title if its operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or segregation by it is supported by State action:

(1) any inn, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence;

(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunch room, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other activity principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises. . . .

(3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium, or other place of exhibition or entertainment. . . .

(d) Discrimination or segregation by an establishment is supported by State action within the meaning of this title if such discrimination or segregation (1) is carried on under color of any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; or (2) is carried on under color of any custom or usage required or enforced by officials of the State or political subdivision thereof. . . .

Sec. 202. All persons shall be entitled to be free, at any establishment or place, from discrimination or segregation of any kind on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin, if such discrimination or segregation is or purports to be required by any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, rule, or order of a State or any agency or political subdivision thereof. . . .

Sec. 206. (a) Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern of practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights secured by this title, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States by filing with it a complaint . . . requesting such preventive relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice, as he deems necessary to insure the full enjoyment of the rights herein described.

TITLE IV

Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs

Sec. 601. No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.