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A five page paper which looks at the civil rights movement in America and South Africa and the similarities between the two.
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The development of the civil rights movements in the USA
and South Africa demonstrate a number of similarities, not least because both are characterised by the fight against white oppression by the black population of the respective nations. In the
USA, the vast majority of black people were descended from slaves, who had been brought from Africa and the Caribbean to work on the plantations: in fact, the plantation economy
in the Southern states could not have survived without slave labour.
At the time, slaves were regarded as somewhat less than human, and even after the Civil War and emancipation, there was still a general public perception amongst the white
population that whilst blacks should not be enslaved, neither should they be given the same degree of civil rights as white people. This cultural attitude was something which continued to
prevail for centuries, despite the growth of the civil rights movement and legislation aimed at instigating equal rights for all.
In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept
of segregated education was unworkable, since segregation was inherently unequal. However, even ten years later it was necessary to send troops to protect the rights of black students at universities
in Southern states. Resistance to segregation and discrimination took various forms.
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