The Growth of Civil Rights Movement in America

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THE GROWTH OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
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‘The growth of civil rights movement in America’
Civil rights movements in America have grown to be successful and crucial to the
country’s economy and political stability today. The success of the civil rights movements can be
traced back to the 1950s where inequality and oppression among the American citizens such as
the African American were transparent leading to the rise of a strong footed social revolution.
Labor unions played an important role in the success and growth of the civil rights
movement, they were actually considered as strong allies during the African American struggle
towards achieving equal rights to the white man such as voting. Most of the labor unions had a
large and growing number of African American works force and strategically came from the
major cities in America (Siegel,2013). However, most of the problems these labor unions
addressed such as economic security were also essential to the white workforce which further
gave a strong footing to the influence of the labor unions due to their support forcing the
government to cave in on their demands which create more opportunities for the African
Americans in the labor market
Trade unions expanded activism and supported protests, which added to the mass
developments in the 60s. Exchange associations likewise raised dark attention to potential dark
political and monetary power. For instance, these unions could organize an economic boycott,
where African Americans would blacklist purchasing from shops that declined to utilize black
laborers. They elevated gatherings to talk about balance where laborers were instructed on the
most proficient method to effectively and viably initiate protests and marches led by respectable
African American figures such as Martin Luther King. JR and Walter Reuther culminating the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Walton, et al 2017).