More than six decades have passed since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), which was a struggle to enact constitutional and legal rights for African Americans. The movement made its greatest legislative achievements in the mid-1960s, following years of mass demonstrations happening from the mid-1950s to 1968. The time is characterized by incidents both before and after the start of the twentieth century that questioned racial prejudice towards African-Americans. Consequently, the black community agitated against the US rampant inequality, oppressive laws, and racial segregation, which resulted in the minority’s emancipation.
Voting
First and foremost, the movement leads to giving blacks the right to vote, which increased African-Americans’ involvement in the political arena. For instance, Barrack Obama’s historic election as the first black American President demonstrated the influence of the blacks’ civil rights movement. Consequently, African-Americans now contribute their opinions, which shapes the inclusive basis of the United States’ society.
Education
Moreover, the movement assisted in giving African Americans access to educational institutions with excellent facilities and allowed them to gain admission to higher-level schools, which they had previously been prohibited from attending. The CRM made it illegal to refuse a student admission to a college due to their skin color. After the movement, consequently, African-Americans obtained a possibility to get a highly paid job. Despite the advantageous breakthrough in human rights history, schools in the US are still partially segregated in many parts of the country. To elaborate, the majority of children are attending a school near where they live. Therefore, since blacks and whites often resided in different neighborhoods, they also often grow up separately. Henceforth, despite the existence of positive impacts of CRM on American society, the movement effectiveness might be considered limited due to continuing racial disparity.