Civil Rights Movement
By: Sarah Parmenter
Effects of the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement has greatly changes the United Stated for the better. The Civil Rights Act and movement have given people better college educations (and school in general), better paying jobs, and more regardless of the color of their skin.With the civil rights movement all races can get out of poverty and better their lives as the days go on. Although racism will never fully go away, many people who fought for this movement made the world a little more equal and got rid of a great amount of racism in the places they call home.
Throughout the readings of this flyer, you will get a better insight and understanding of how, and how much the civil rights movement has gotten America to where and who we are now. You will see the lives of the people who help change the world and what they did to end segregation and racism to make the world a more equal, and safer place.
Strategies & Tactics
Civil Disobedience
Boycotts
Grass-roots Organizing
Unsung Heroes
Catherine Burks-Brooks
"We knew there was a possibility that we might die, but once you lose the fear (of dying) there is nothing else (after that)." -Catherine Burks-Brooks
Russell Campbell
Campbell was arrested several times for helping people like him fight for their rights. Once while on his first few days of being in jail, he wrote a letter explaining the situation to his family. His father too the letter to a black newspaper and had it published with a picture of Russell on the front. A woman by the name of Viola Liuzzo called as many people as she could to do anything she could to help. Liuzzo was shot and killed by the KKK while trying to heed the call to Martin Luther King Jr. Even after 50 years, Campbell explains that he still feels guilty for what happened to Viola, and if he hadn't sent the letter she wouldn't have been killed.
"My mind was set on changing things. Anything that tore down the walls of segregation was not illegal, it was a necessity." -Russell Campbell