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The Civil Rights era was the period in time when African Americans were trying to make
it so that they had the same rights as whites. There were many different strategies for this
whether it was with violence or peace. This was to overcome all the racial discrimination that
was happening everywhere in America.
There were many injustices that blacks faced at the time that they were fighting against with
Civil Rights. One of these was segregation. There were separate schools, water fountains, train
terminals, and everything else for blacks and whites. This was able to happen because of the
Supreme Courts separate but equal opinion saying that segregation was fine if everything was
equal quality for everybody, they werent. One of the worst was schools. Georgias state
government paid $190 per white student and $132 per black student. The black schools were
also small buildings with no heat, water, or plumbing. Segregation wasnt the only problem.
There was only jobs and salaries. Blacks were denied many jobs and were often paid less than a
white worker doing the exact same thing. Blacks also couldnt really vote either. They
technically had a right to but there were literary tests they had to go through to vote as well as
there would be threats preventing them from voting.
There were many ways to accomplish the goals that they wanted. The way that everyone
remembers them doing it was nonviolence. Everyone remembers this strategy mainly because it
was the strategy that had the most success. This includes the strategies of protests, sit-ins,
boycotts and marches. These strategies are famous because they were the strategies that Martin
Luther King Jr. used when he fought for Civil Rights. The crowds of people he had fight for
Civil Rights made sure to not get out of control no matter what the police and other onlookers
did to try to drive them off. This included having fire hoses fired at them, being hit with batons,