Civil Rights Movement

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This paper discusses some of the challenges that faced the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on the autobiographical novel, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," written by Anne Moody. The paper discusses the history of the time and the successes of the civil rights movement with regard to improving the lives of African American people in the US.

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"Beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the 1960s, Americans endured one of the most violent, tumultuous, and socially fragmented periods in its history. Following World War II, African Americans returned from fighting across seas in a racially integrated society, to the United States where racism was legally and socially imposed without hesitation. Although slavery had been abolished nearly one hundred years prior, African Americans in the 1950s continued to face discrimination, political disenfranchisement, and economic inequality. However, emboldened by a renewed sense of pride acquired at War compounded with a mounting sense of community resulting from the Great Migration of Blacks out of the South to more concentrated Northern urban areas, African Americans had enough strength in confidence and numbers to pursue actual equality. Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi competently chronicles the struggles faced by Civil Rights Workers in their pursuit of racial parity."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Random House, 1968 CORE: Congress of Racial Equality, a Civil Rights Organization

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