Category Archives: Week 7: Civil Rights

Folks don’t often dwell overlong in the exact machinations of government. We would all be ecstatic not to have to dwell in political limbo in regards to such thorny subjects as sexism and racism, but alas. There are surely much flashier, trendier issues to be talking about that aren’t ancient sins of our nation. WhenContinue reading “Brown v. Board and the People”

It is interesting to think about why some moments in history has a stronger spotlight than others – especially when it deals with the same topic. In school I had always been told that the South was “naturally” very racist and had a strong passion when it came to slavery. When it came to theContinue reading “Week 7: Northern Desegregation”

The traditional view that racial discrimination was solely a regional problem in the South is a narrow perspective that overlooks the Civil Rights Movement’s full scope and complexity. The civil rights struggles in New York City and Boston’s schools challenge this view by highlighting the pervasiveness of racism and the struggle for equality beyond theContinue reading “Week 7 Post”

The Civil Rights Movement is often depicted as a struggle against racial discrimination that was mainly confined to the South, but civil rights struggle in Northern cities like New York City and Boston’s schools challenge this view. In the North, African Americans faced similar forms of discrimination, such as segregation in schools, housing, and employment,Continue reading “Civil Rights Movement”

When remembering the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, most look to the South. It was there that Rosa Parks sparked the boycotting movement, that Martin Luther King Jr. preached of equality and peaceful protest, and where Black students birthed the idea of the sit-in. While the South undoubtedly played a large part in thisContinue reading “Northern Civil Rights: NYC & Boston”

Civil Rights Movement, the continuous fight to abolish discrimination, segregation, and inequality in America’s south. Through both peaceful and violent protests, the south was flooded with sit-ins, boycotts, and marches. In history books, this is how we learned about the Civil Rights Movement throughout the 50s and 60s, but what about the North? Or evenContinue reading “Civil Rights in more than just the South”

When most people think of the Civil Rights Movement, I think a majority of our minds automatically go to the South. This makes sense because all throughout school in history classes, teachers only discuss the Civil Rights Movement that happened in the South. However, the Black Civil Rights Movement in the South was not theContinue reading “Week 7: Civil Rights”

The civil rights struggles in New York City and Boston’s schools demonstrate how the Civil Rights Movement’s narrative of being an issue of the South was false. New York actually had the largest civil rights protest of the 1960s, although it received practically no recognition. In February of 1964, almost half a million students andContinue reading “The conveniently forgotten movement in the North”

Northern cities such as New York City have been the center for civil rights struggles, providing a platform for activists to voice their calls for justice and equality. From the peaceful protests of the Stonewall Riots to the large-scale Black Lives Matter movement demonstrations. With the help of organizations like the NAACP, local activists haveContinue reading “What we don’t know about the North!”