Paper Proposal Assignment on The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement
Introduction
Civil Rights Movement in America has played a critical role in building the current day democratic United States as we know it. After nearly a century since Emancipation Proclamation, the Black community plight in America was characterized by inspired violence earmarked ‘Jim-crow’ and other various forms of oppression. The fight to abolish racially powered institutions and legal framework that supported the oppression of Blacks led to the birth of Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement was prominent in the southern states and sought to unify Blacks to collectively bargain for better representation and recognition as equal American citizens. The movement, which lasted nearly one and half a decade, changed the landscape of American politics and left an indelible mark in American history. The movement under the leadership of several notable African-American leaders who advocated the use of non-violent means to push for change made remarkable progress despite many setbacks they endured. In this essay, a brief insight into the background of the movement, leadership, tactical methodology they used and their achievements are critically described.
Background
In 1875 the supreme court stripped the Black community the citizenship rights they had been accorded by Abraham Lincoln. The court declared the recognition of the black community as unconstitutional and therefore invalid. That ruling cut short the dreams of the former slaves and subjected Blacks into a decade-long oppression, segregation, and disfranchisement. As of that ruling, the Black community was not represented in the government, and they were deprived of many civil rights as American citizens. The former slaves were unofficially held in economic servitude because of their economic ability which limited their options to strive for better policies that favored them. The white community still maintained supremacy over the Black community and passed laws that oppressed and racially discriminated the Blacks. That supreme court ruling I had ushered in a new era, an era of Jim-Crow laws that were designed to exploit, segregate and oppress the Blacks.
Jim-Crow laws were the legal framework that supported racial discrimination and stripped the full citizenship of Blacks which was recognized under the Constitution under Amendment XIV in 1868. The Jim-Crow laws hurt the Black community economically and sociallyCITATION Rev02 \l 1033 (Harvard Law Review). The supreme court sought to reinstate the white supremacy, especially in the Southern States by declaring the amendment unconstitutional. For nearly a century, the Black community was racially discriminated by the whites using the Jim-Crow laws. The Civil Rights Movement ignited in 1954 and focused on bringing down the white supremacy that racially discriminated them under Jim-Crow era. They fought to earn full recognition as equal American citizens in the Constitution and abolish the laws, policies, and stereotypes that had stymied their quest for social, economic and cultural empowerment. Their main focus was on the existing laws that treated them as second-class citizens and reinstitution of their rights to vote and representati...