9th Class- Explanation and Antecedents of Civil Rights Movement

What are Civil Rights?

A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury.

Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary.

Discrimination is different to Segregation.

How was the Civil Rights Movement times of war?

Long Term Causes

1. #14 Amendment (from American Constutitution): negros were worth 3/5 of a White.
2.  Jim crowe laws (slavery conditions  established De Jure Segregation). Slavery conditions in the South to grant cheap labor.
3. In the context of the Great Depression: NAACP--- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, created by the New Deal.
4. UNIA--- Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Short Term Causes

1. The situation of the forces in the context of the Second World War.
2. The situation of women.
3. Situation of Japanese Americans.

Civil Rights for Women?

Women and the workplace: “Rosie the Riveter” was nickname given during WWII to American who did industrial work in the 1940s.

Antecedents of the Civil Rights Movements

1941--- A. Clayton bus boycott in Harlem.

1941--- P. Randolph standstill (quedarse parado como forma de reclamo) in one industry in D.C.

1942--- J. Farmer sit- in in Chicago.

1943--- Bus driver and black soldier (Montgomery Bus Boycott): Results, 24 people end in jail.

Little Rock High School, 1957

Youth were very representative during this period of time 1950s 1960s.

Revolution and boycotts protesting civil rights were made by young people.