The Civil Rights Movement

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the Grandfather Clause. Also when some blacks went to
vote, people simply wouldn't let them register. Due to lack of voting ability,
no blacks were elected into office and therefore, blacks had no say in the
government. Also, blacks were not allowed to serve on juries, yet they were
almost always found guilty in court, even if the evidence was clearly against
them. For example, years ago a boy in Georgia broke into a school to steal an
ice cream. While he should have gotten a few hours of community service, he got
three years in jail just because he was black. A truth to the Kerner Commission
report that occurs today is that blacks are not being represented in Congress
proportionally. While 12% of U.S. citizens are black, there is only one black in
the Senate out of a hundred seats. This is a failure because blacks should be
proportionally represented because it is their right to have a sufficient say in
government. However, the civil rights movement was more of a success ...

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who was accused of killing his
wife, received a fair trial and was let off not-guilty. In the 60's in the south,
he would have been found guilty very quickly.

In the economic sense, the Kerner report has some truth today, but overall the
civil rights movement was a huge success in this area because blacks are much
better off today than they were before the movement. Before the civil rights
movement, almost every black was very poor and they weren't able to get good
jobs because of their skin color. There was no middle class for blacks, just a
lower class. They didn't have equal opportunity. An economic failure of the
movement is the amount of poor blacks that still exist. The children ...

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