Civil Rights

Civil Rights have numerous beneficial attributes that seemingly go unnoticed by black-and-white thinkers; since to these individuals, Civil Rights are just Civil Rights. So, what is it about civil rights that gives it its power to stir one’s emotions, stimulate one’s thoughts, and incite one’s actions. How can civil rights be anything more than just simply rights of a person? Civil Rights have the powerful ability to impact human beings in countless ways. Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person has as a member of a community, state, or nation. In the U.S., these rights are guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution and acts of Congress. In the past some people weren’t allowed to have there civil rights like the African Americans of the 1960s. During this time the White Americans didn’t believe that people that were not white deserved there rights. Many years have gone by since then and many things have changed. Although there have been many ups and downs between 1960-2010 all people now have there civil rights. Although there are still segregated schools in the deep south its not as bad as it was in the 1960s, but they have banished separate drinking fountains, and discrimination of any American.
On August 28, 1993, more than 100,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. They went there to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, led by Martin Luther King Jr (Kathy Wilmore 2010). Since the 1960s, many laws have been passed to guarantee civil rights to all Americans. Forty years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it is hard to understand and even remember the furious battle over the passage of that law. Today, in 2010, with most of the nation made up of African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians, it seems as if the impassioned law passed by Congress took place in a different century and maybe on a different planet. At the start of the twenty-first century, most people...