Question

Evaluate the extent to which the achievements made in the area of civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s was a function of the rising economic prosperity of the period of time.

Answer 1

American civil rights

During 1950s and 1960s there were many mass protests against racial discrimination in the United States. The following events took place:

1. The Supreme Court of ended the segregation in schools
2. A boy named Emmett Till was murdered by the whites as he said something to a white woman
3. In Montgomery, the buses were boycotted
4. A school named little rock’s central high school in Arkansas was prevented from desegregation by the governor by calling out troops of national guard etc.

There was demand for economic justice during the civil rights movements. After the war the economic convergence had a long run effect on scientific technology, falling cost of transportation and communication. The economic conditions took off after the war. There were efforts which were made to attract business through tax breaks, industrial development, plant constructing municipal bonds, research parks etc.