Civil Rights Movement

There are many lessons that we have learned from the Civil Rights movement. All over the world there has been fighting for people's beliefs. The main reason for the fighting was because of discriminiation to people like Africans, Mexicans, Asians, Native Americans, and also all the women. There has been many different strategies that different groups used. Some were the same but some were the complete opposite. An example is Martin Luther King Jr. he was a civil rights activist that got his ideas from Ghandi, non-violent methods. He began to organize groups, and he would go to a place that had a high rate of discrimination. Unlike Malcolm X, he was also a civil rights activist but he had different ways to get his point across. But he didnt want to be integrated with the white people he just wanted to start his own society with just Africans. So i think the biggest lesson learned from the Civil Rights was that even though there was different methods used they all had the same goal in common, to have equal rights.

America struggles to come to a complete conclusion to reach equity and equality still to this day. America isnt perfect, there are many struggles that we go through everyday. Even though discrimination 'ended', it still exist till this day. Even though they dont mean it but institutional racism still plays a factor in everybodies life. We still struggle with racism, stereotypes, and also poverty. I think stereotypes is very important because many people think that just because of your skin tone you have to do certain things.

The events and ideas that occured during the Civil Rights movement really connects with the present. Because now just like before you hear everywhere that people are rising up and protesting for their beliefs. If you turn on the radio, or you turn on your tv, you can also hear it for yourself. An example is 'Occupy', there protesting that while 1% of people are making more than 99% of the people. How crazy is that? While most of the people are making minimum wage theres people that are making so much more than that and they dont work as hard as the 99% do. I dont think racism, social classes, or even stereotypes are ever going to end.