African American Civil Rights Today

By: Ahmed AK.

The Emancipation During the Civil War, President
Abraham Lincoln declared the
Proclamation “Emancipation Proclamation”
freeing all slaves. This began the
Civil Rights movement to give
African Americans all the rights a
white American has.
Jim Crow Laws Following the Civil War, , many states
were still not ready to accept African
Americans as free men. They established
Jim Crow Laws, laws established by state
and local laws that enforced racial
segregation. One such law was that some
places were only accessible to “whites”
and other places were open to “colored”.
Key figures in the 1. Rosa Parks was one of the first civil
rights protester, called "the mother of
19th century Civil the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks
started the struggle for racial equality
Rights movement when she refused to give her bus seat to
a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
2. Booker T. Washington was seen as the
dominant leader of the African American
community, he was an educated man and
strived to provide education to his
community.
3. Frederick Douglass was a famous
abolitionist, who escaped from slavery in
Maryland, he became a national leader
of the abolitionist movement in
Massachusetts and New York.
20th century Civil One of the dominant leaders in the Civil
Rights movement in the 20th century was
Rights movement Martin Luther King Jr., who led the
movement to end segregation and
counter prejudice in the United States
through the means of peaceful protest.

● His speeches are some of the most

iconic in the 20th century.
Civil Rights Modern day racial injustice
unfortunately still occurs, racial
Movement in bias will always exist. But it is
Modern Day much better than the before, and
it's getting better with the efforts of
civil rights protesters.