Impact of the US civil rights movement?
The impact of the Civil rights era was that it changed the mind set of America and most of the world to those who are minorities and oppressed. For starters Black Americans did not have to live under Jim crow laws were they could not vote , shop , work or live where they want. It dramatically improved the way of life for Blacks in this country. ( even thou improvements still need to be made) Fact is before this era minorities of all types were not in positions of power , on TV , or have the right to express there opinion or fight for there rights now we can. It also helped women alot by helping them gain access and rights to become a force in the workforce and elsewhere. Bottom line we now have a Black man and a Woman running for President where before the Civil Rights era it would NEVER be thought of. Also when ignorant statements are made against another race bey anyone now, That person can and will be criticized and muzzled.
What types of resistance did Civil Rights leaders use that affected the Civil Rights movement?
sit-ins at lunch counters and stores (most notably in chicago) *Marches - eg washington march (1963) protests - Birmingham - stirred the 'conscience of america' due to wide broadcasting across the country and the globe pickets bi racial commmitees boycotts (montgomery bus boycott) freedoms rides - CORE lead action in 1961 that tested segregation on buses in the south freedom summer - the 1964 campaign in which students from the north travelled across the south encouraging african americans to register to vote sorry thats all i remember :L its mostly only stuff from the '60s thers some stuff on salem, albany, little rock 9 etc but i forgot :( the main things were the non-violent resistance marches and non-retaliatory protesting techniques and the rally's and speeches most of these had positive effects in favour of the movement, it was in some cases, the exposure of the negative reactions from certain groups that many leaders were looking for to gain support in the movement
What are some of Ron Paul's negatives?
In my opinion... -Wanting to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Wanting to abolish income tax -Wanting to abolish hate crimes -Not in support of gay marriage (he isn't in support of marriage period, but in the mean time, he has no intention of legalizing gay marriage) -Does not support /humanitarian/ wars -Wants to go back to the gold standard -Is pro-life, but wants to leave it up to the states (I am pro-choice on a federal level) -Wants to leave many social issues up to the state level (I don't agree with this; states shouldn't get to pick and choose what rights their citizens get, it should be federally mandated) -Wants to abolish many government agencies such as the EPA -Wants to abolish regulations (which could have potentially damaging effects on the economy, environment, etc.)
How did black codes effect reconstruction?
The black codes enacted immediately after the American Civil War, though varying from state to state, were all intended to secure a steady supply of cheap labor, and all continued to assume the inferiority of the freed slaves. There were vagrancy laws that declared a black to be vagrant if unemployed and without permanent residence; a person so defined could be arrested, fined, and bound out for a term of labor if unable to pay the fine. Apprentice laws provided for the "hiring out" of orphans and other young dependents to whites, which often turned out to be their former owners. Some states limited the type of property blacks could own, and in others blacks were excluded from certain businesses or from the skilled trades. Former slaves were forbidden to carry firearms or to testify in court, except in cases concerning other blacks. Legal marriage between blacks was provided for, but interracial marriage was prohibited. It was Northern reaction to the black codes (as well as to the bloody antiblack riots in Memphis and New Orleans in 1866; see New Orleans Race Riot) that helped produce Radical Reconstruction (see Reconstruction) and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. The Freedmen's Bureau was created in 1865 to help the former slaves. Reconstruction did away with the black codes, but, after Reconstruction was over, many of their provisions were reenacted in the Jim Crow laws, which were not finally done away with until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.