Race Riots of the 1960's

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How did the civil right movement effect African Americans and lead to many race riots?

"The killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's was a dark moment among the many from that era. King was leader for a generation, his death angered and saddened millions."

What lead up to Race Riots?

How did African Americans gain freedom?

"The great depression was during the same time as the heat of the race riots and the civil movement"

The Great Depression a struggle for many people and esspeically since the Race Riots and the great depression were going on throughout the same time in history, one makes the other worse. with more than one economically devastating impacts going on in the world just makes life worse for the African Americans. less money, less jobs, more discrimination and segregation. This made blacks angry and wanting more and more to rebel.

The freedom movement was primarily to gain equality some other goals of the movements were to gain...

freedom from discrimination.

equal access to public facilities, employment, education an housing, and the right to vote.

What lead to race riots...

Desegregation and Civil Rights

"African Americans in Wisconsin have been struggling for civil rights for more than a century before the movement began to attract headlines in the 1960's."

Before people started to realize what was happening with the Black Power movement and how African Americans were being treated. It wasn't before the 1960's that people started noticing that it was a serious problem the African Americans were forced to face. The civil rights movement and the black power movement changed the way people treat other races. Treating them more equally. Throughout history African Americans have became more excepted by whites Americans. There is much less racial tension.

"Congress passed the united states first conscription act, through men drafted for the service could pay commutation fee of $300 to get out of the service"

$300 was a lot of money back in the 1960's to many families, Especially with everything going on with the Black Power movements and Civil Rights movements. African Americans generally could not afford this money for them to not be drafted to the service into world war 2.. While white men were potentially the only ones that could afford to pay this so they could stay and work if they need to support their families. I think that them putting this fee into action was a way to force many people to fight for our country that didn't necessarily want to leave. This angered many African Americans and made them more likely to rebel and increase racial tension and brake out in more Race Riots.

Race Riots of the 1960's