America Evolves

Lessons learned from the civil rights movement were no matter what your skin color is, you're still a person. In the civil rights era African Americans were treated as dirt and had there freedom stripped from them. This is wrong because everyone is a person no matter what color your skin is or what you believe in. White people used very harsh punishments to scare African Americans to get them do what they wanted. Now we focus more on peaceful protesting instead of trying to hose people into the ground. White people learned to treat everyone equal and give them there equal rights as stated in the constitution and the amendments. When people aren't given there rights many problems arise that are still affected today. We give people there rights today as stated in the Amendments and Constitution but there are still issues like minorities and achievement gaps.

America still struggles today when it comes to equity and equality. American has a achievement gap between different races. We need to fix problems that occur with different percentages achieving a higher gap. America also has institutionalized racism. We don't know how to fix the problems of whites and blacks hanging around in certain groups. Americas problems also deal with the employment gaps. More whites are hired than other races just because of there skin color. America still has some problems that arise in minorities.

The civil rights is connected to present because even though America struggles we've progressed a lot. Our schools aren't segregated anymore. However we have to deal with races hanging out with other groups of the same race. Restraunts hire all races and don't discriminate. However whites are more employed then minorities. African Americans couldn't vote but now they can. Everyone has there right to vote which means they can express what they feel is right. It's really good that the civil rights movement happened because if it didn't then people would still be dealing with segregation, possibly at a further extent.