Civil Rights Movement in America

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Civil Rights Movement in America
The civil rights movements have been some of the most momentous events and ideologies that rocked the history of the nation to the core. Some of the impacts are still felt in the society today with the communities that are minorities fighting for their fair share of treatment in America the leader of the free world. Over the years, the civil rights movement has been shaped by changing landscape in politics and ideologies among the pioneers of the ideals. The classical phase of the struggles of the civil rights movement is a narrative that controlled by the short struggles that mark the development of the same. Beginning in the 40s during the WWII and erupting in 1954 during a court ruling in the case Brown v. Board of Education and coming past the 1964 during the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of the year 1965, and the struggle continues even with the Acts in place. The country goes through a phase where the sanity and moral clarity returns and then a series of unrest with the Vietnam War, riots in the urban areas, people reacting to the excesses of the 60s and the 70s, which were largely understood as students rebelling, busing, overweening of the state, feminism, affirmative action and even black militancy among others. The civil rights movement changes between adopting violence and using peaceful means to gain a foothold in the political circles and influence the level of segregation meted against the minorities. Even the Cold War had its impact in the shaping of the civil right movement (Hall).
The Second World War marks the start of the spark that led to the civil rights movement. The involvement of America in h Second World War brought some social changes in the African American community. The included the fact that the American army involved the African Americans in the army to fight the war against the Nazi racism and the fascism. It was at this time that the liberal Americans including the whites started talking about the aspect racism in America, relative to the pivotal support that the African Americans played in the war, fighting alongside the white soldiers. This had been the plan to show that the African Americans were also worthy of the white status in the country. Previously more than 5000 African Americans had fought in the American Revolution wars which were civil. The WWII therefore formed the best stage for the African American society to launch the civil rights strife in America for their freedom. However this did not mean that the African Americans were welcome to fight along the ranks of the white soldiers. Even after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, African Americans were still struggling in their army to make their efforts felt. There was rife segregation in the army as most of them ended up serving as cooks, digging graves and quarter masters among other menial jobs. This gave way to the double V campaigns in year 1942, as the African Americans vowed to give their best to the war and urged the government to do their part in amending the constitution to give all citizens their deserved rights to freedom and equality. A reprieve came in 1948 when Truman issued the executive order 9981, ordering desegregation ...