August Meier wrote an essay that posed an answer to the question of whether or not Martin Luther King, Jr’s leadership was truly essential to the success of the civil rights movement. In this essay, Meier advocated strongly that yes, Martin Luther King was indeed essential to the success of the movement, as he possessed ...
A flurry of activity took place in the history of African-Americans in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The Civil Rights movement was propelled by violence against blacks, political marginalization, and continued segregation. One of the cases which compelled many whites and blacks to join the Civil Rights movement was the violent lynching of Emmet Till in ...
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was a culmination of nearly 300 years of racial injustice and inequality on mainland America and, later, the United States. This movement, like most mass movement, did not happen overnight; rather, it took the momentum built by centuries of frustration and a realization that the inequality ...
Born in Harlem, NY, in 1924, James Baldwin would go on to become an important author in American literature as well as in the Civil Rights movement. Baldwin spent most of his life having a strained relationship with his step-father (whose name he adopted). Baldwin never actually knew his biological father, and due to issues ...
Stokely Carmichael was a prominent African-American who was at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Carmichael was born in 1941 on the island of Trinidad which is located in the West Indies. Though he was a Trinidad native, at the ripe age of eleven years old, his family, including him, moved to New York ...