The Civil Rights Movement: We Can All Live in Peace :: Black struggle for civil rights in America

What is the key to understanding? Is it knowing what our predecessors were thinking? Or is simply but trying to put ourselves in their place. some(prenominal) the case may be, understanding our history is vital in the growth of courteousization. In an while when color was everything, understanding our history is what makes life in America today-so beautiful.During the time of the Civil Rights Movement, the blacks precious to be free, plainly the whites wanted to suppress them. The whites were willing to go to any lengths to campaign their ideas of white supremacy. From look for it can be knowing, that from that movement, to some - it was more than a movement, it was a contend for license. I lived in a time when the white man was our ruler, but he could not suppress me any longer. I refused to get up for that white man, he and I were not seen as equals from societies eyes, but divinity gave us both red blood in our veins. (Rosa Parks autobiography pg. 23) Rosa Parks was just one of the many powerful spirits that lit the way for many to freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was probably the near influential during this time period. He touched mint of all kinds. Blacks, whites, and people of all races were inspired by the way King could move his audiences. veritable(a) John F. Kennedy was seen walking down the street with King listening to a personal sermon. Although Kennedy was only president for a little over one-thousand years before he was assassinated, perhaps the most important of his achievements was his support for civil rights and his effort to move the United States away from racial segregation and toward freedom and equal rights for all Americans. Kennedy and King had the same dream. In an era when color was everything, understanding our history is what makes life in America today-so beautiful. The communicating between races was done through many different attempts by both parties. Protests, secret coding, public seminars, speeches, an d using the goodness of ones heart, were just some of the many ways races attempted to communicate. The nation has grown and learned from the men and women that fought for equal rights, and it shows. Interracial couples are getting married for each one and every day. Blacks and Whites may sit together on the bus in the front or the back.