Why Study the Civil Right Movement
Beginning in the late 1950's until today there has been an ongoing struggle for equality for all regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. To understand how we have come from police raids on homosexual bars and lynchings as an everyday occurrence to individual cases of bigotry and hate filled murder students must trace back to the roots of the civil Rights movement. Many students today do not believe that only 60 years ago African American men and women were barely gaining their rights as citizens of the United States. If it was not for the bravery of those that stood in place while being shot,hung and beaten this country might not be as equal as it is today.