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    The document discusses the background and history of the US civil rights movement from the 1950s to 1960s. It details the racial discrimination and segregation faced by African Americans prior to the movement. Key events that triggered the movement included the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. The researchers aim to discuss the underlying causes and impact of the civil rights movement.

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    HISTORY 104

    Historical Research
    Proposal

    Submitted by:
    Ellou Jean Gerbolingo
    Chloie Cadampog
    Submitted to:
    Prof. Jay Rome Delos Santos
    THE UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

    Background of the Study


    In the present social situation of the United States, it is now becoming more open and
    diverse since 2010. People who do not have any knowledge about the country’s history, well,
    cannot believe that today’s one of the most racially and culturally diverse countries had an
    unpleasant racial relations in the past. Prior to the current growing racial diversity in the
    American society, racial discrimination or segregation was then a neglected issue.
    After the onset of the Cold War, the Soviet diplomats began to use the continuing
    American racial discrimination against African-Americans as a propaganda tool, comparing it
    to Nazis who abused the Jews (Tindall and Shi 2013). Meanwhile, United States President
    Dwight Eisenhower entered the office in 1953, though committed to civil rights in principle,
    however he refused to push the issue of civil rights, balked at resolving the nation’s injustices
    constituted his greatest failure as a president. Due to the fact that, Blacks were
    undereducated, poor, and black –were regularly denied access to good jobs, good schools,
    and good housing. In addition, they were not allowed to vote; to join social or sports groups;
    to share equal benefits with the Whites that is why in the middle of 1950s; race relations in
    the United States was likely to erupt in the midst of prosperity masking years of social
    injustices. The civil rights movement that took place during the late 1950s to 1960s was a
    struggle for justice and equality for African Americans -long years of sufferings,
    discrimination and abuse inflicted by the superiority of the Whites. Indeed, the triggering
    event of the movement was the remarkable Montgomery Bus Boycott initiated by the case of
    Rosa Parks and was led by Martin Luther King Jr. –a great effort for the African-Americans
    who took great personal risks just to challenge the segregation. Rural and urban, years and
    old, male and female, courageous blacks formed the vanguard of what would become the
    most social movement in American history
    The aforementioned information above and the controversial civil rights movement
    drive the researchers to establish substantial discussion about the underlying causes of the
    movement; to unleash the untold struggles of the people behind the movement; and to
    determine the outcome and impact of the civil rights movement inside and outside of the
    United States.
    Possible sources

    American Government. 2015. Free at Last: The U.S Civil Rights Movement. Create Space Independent
    Publishing Platform.
    Chalmers, David. 2003. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. New York:
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
    Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. 2001. Sisters in the Struggle: African Women in the Civil
    Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press.
    McNeese, Tim. 2008. The Civil Rights Movement: Striving for Justice. New York: Chelsea House
    Publishers.
    Tindall, George Brown, and David Emory Shi. 2013. America A Narrative History. New York: W.W
    Norton & Company, Inc.

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