The civil rights Movement taught us a couple of things. For one, it showed us that people are willing to fight for what they believe is fair and right. This is on of the reasons that the civil rights movement was successful. It had also showed us that people will always hate others based on race or belief. That some people are still unwilling to change and except everyone as equal. The Civil Rights Movement also taught us that if we work together we can overcome a major problems that arise. This is a way that shows standing for something good could lead to something great. These are some of the lessons are learned from The Civil Rights Movement, and should learn to use these lessons to help with the problems that it can relate to today.
Even today America still struggles to be equal racially and religiously. In America we still have hate crimes that are instigated by hate towards other races. The Civil Rights Movement helped to reduce the hate-crimes easier to get away with but we have to stop them from happening now. Their are also other groups that are trying to get equal rights just like they did back then. For instance the gay population is trying to get the right to marry. There are also the people that are still persecuted for their beliefs. People are verbally assaulted for their beliefs every day. Although America has come far we still have some work to do.
What we say we gave the black society is equality but really it was equity which is the chance to be equal. So now we all have the same rights, which gives everyone equal opportunity to do the same thing. Today we struggle with giving these two concepts to other people in America. We do not give people the chance to be like others. for example, we don't give gays to have a family like most couple do. This is only one of the issues that this relates to. There are many more and we as a country need to work together to fix this problem.
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