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This 4 page paper briefly considers the proposition that the actions of the federal government were more important to the movement between 1945 and 1965 than were the efforts of individuals and groups such as the NAACP, SCLC, CORE and SNCC; and argues that the statement is incorrect and that the two efforts were equally important.
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spanned decades and is still on-going since racism, unfortunately, is still very much a part of American society. This paper briefly considers the proposition that the actions of the
federal government were more important to the movement between 1945 and 1965 than were the efforts of individuals and groups such as the NAACP, SCLC, CORE and SNCC; and argues
that the statement is incorrect because the individual and governmental efforts were equally important. Discussion During World War II, blacks began to get a taste of equality, as they fought
(and died) in the armed forces alongside their white compatriots. After the war they, like the women who worked in the defense factories, were not willing to simply give
up the gains they had made; they wanted to be full participants in society. Despite a growing desire for equality, there wasnt a wide-spread movement until in 1955 Rosa
Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus; her act is generally considered to mark the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in earnest. However, Parks was
not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat to a white, but she did it shortly after the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of
Education, and the timing couldnt have been better (Carson). Brown declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, which meant that civil rights were suddenly in the forefront of the
news. "The Brown decision demonstrated that the litigation strategy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but
the strategy worked only when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with crossing racial barriers" (Carson). Here, Rosa Parks had acted on her own
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