How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Civil Rights Movement

During 1965, this was still a time of great turmoil. US was still recovering from the war, there was the Watts Riots, the North East blackout and before just the year before that, on July 2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However, the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement, to sum up was when blacks marched out to Edmund Pettus Bridge, when they got there they were greeted by a wall of state troopers on the other side. They were attacked by the police with sticks, tear gas and other elements. There was a lot of violence and murders. On March …show more content…
He said that rights are opportunities and this it shall remain. This banned the practice of administration of literacy. “Its object is to open the city of hope to all people of all races. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right.” His speech and actions guaranteed those rights for the blacks. In the closing of his speech he elaborated on the purpose of the American government and one of his focus was to help the poor. He took the Selma riot as a mean to let the country be aware of the voter’s discrimination and that it is a horrible thing. At the signing ceremony he called the voting rights act “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on the battlefield.” Johnson tried to eradicate segregation and believes in giving everybody an equal chance to be involved. I agree with this because everyman is equal and should be treated as …show more content…
And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race. But I would like to caution you and remind you that to exercise these privileges takes much more than just legal right. It requires a trained mind and a healthy body. It requires a decent home, and the chance to find a job, and the opportunity to escape from the clutches of poverty.” I think he somewhat understands how much it is that blacks get the chance to live equally amongst the general population because when one thinks about it black people did the hard work and had their lives stolen from them. They made this country what it is. One of the things one disagrees about in the speech is when he stated “there is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans--not as Democrats or Republicans-we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.” There is a negro problem and nobody want to address it. There was always a negro problem and this negro problem still exist. Furthermore, it was a good speech and I commend him using past troubles to awaken the eyes of the public to make them see that what is going on is