Civil Rights Movements in the Sixties: Striving for Equality

Name Instructor Course Date Chapter 27: The Sixties Civil Rights Introduction Racial bias is the central argument that enhances the flow of topics within the "Sixties" leading to the dire search for civil rights acquisition through various civil rights movements to ensure equal treatment regardless of race or color. Civil rights are human rights directed to enhance equality for all through open opportunities to exercise and express democracy. Unfortunately, ever since time immemorial, racism played a pivotal role in defining privileges entitled to Americans. For this reason, due to the long-witnessed white supremacy dominance, the American minorities remained exposed to inequalities in all odds of life making life quite unbearable, especially during the sixties. The sixties was an interesting era that brought about the need for changes in all odds of life ranging from governance, education, and employment among other areas that defined human well-being to ensure equality for all. While it was not guaranteed that civil rights movements would succeed in acquiring equality for all, one can accredit the movements in the sixties to having notable victories as the leaders and followers fought tirelessly through peaceful and violent approaches to make a positive impact on racially biased approaches that defined American privileges. According to Locke and Ben (314), the sixties brought many Americans to hope for a more inclusive, forward-thinking nation. On the other hand, Anderson a historian at Texas University argued the sixties era was "a loose ever-shifting coalition of social activists, including but not limited to civil rights and Vietnam war protests, students, feminists, ecologists, and hippies" (Anderson,1). Unlike in the previous centuries where fear to risk limited chances for the fight against racial segregation as many remained governed by stereotypical biased perceptions, the sixties served as a wake-up call for segregated groups' urge to enjoy being Americans. Ever since time immemorial, racism associated people of color with the inferior stereotype that saw them enjoy limited privileges as compared to whites. However, during the sixties, the minorities accepted in one voice that enough was enough and expressed their desire to fight for equality in all odds of life through civil rights movements with Selma t