Theoretical Analysis of Civil Rights

The concept of Civil Rights was discovered in the United States and was anchored in the concept that all persons are endowed with the liberty to migrate to a new land/place and to peacefully settle, work, and pursue happiness in the way that is apposite to them. The framers of the U. S Constitution were therefore, persuaded, as a consequence of this realization, to create and formulate the Bill of Rights, which, in conjunction with the subsequent amendments, grant US citizens and most democracies worldwide civil liberties which today form the essential mainstay of civil rights law in the world. The Supreme Court of the Free World embarked on emasculating/extenuating judicial precedents that had over a long time proclaimed civil rights to the blacks.

Various human rights activists and thinkers who had firmly stood against the withdrawal of civil liberties started advocating strongly for what is now called the Civil Rights Law. d. The 14th Amendment in 1868 expanded the blacks’ protection under the Federal law. Moreover, in 1870, the 15th Amendment nerved the civil rights issue by granting blacks the right to vote. However, this did not sit well with many whites, especially those from the Southern states, were under the curse of discomfort conduced by the fact that people they had once vassalled would now relate with them in equal terms, disregarding their superiority. In a bid to disempower blacks, erase the progress they had made during Reconstruction era and keep them separate from whites, “Jim Crow” laws were framed in the South toward late 19th century restraining blacks from attending same public facilities with whites, getting medical attention from the same Health facilities as whites or attending the same schools.

This act of civil disobedience lasted for more than 380 days, and bus segregation was totally eroded of Montgomery. Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Some students began to take active role in acts of civil disobedience to pressurize the Federal Government to grant racial equality; protesting and sensitizing voters during the upsurge of the civil liberties awareness. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Liberties Crusade According to Youth for Human Rights (2002), engendered in Atlanta, Martin had brilliant public speaking excellence and special valour that caught national adulation in 1955, when he alongside other civil liberties crusaders remained apprehended after taking an active role in the boycott of a Montgomery bus services that demanded that African Americans relinquish their seats to their white counterparts.

” Strengths and Weaknesses attributed to Martin Luther King in the Civil Liberties Crusade Dr. Martin Luther King received a Nobel Prize for Peace a year after delivery of his most powerful speech, making him one of the notably few African Americans to have been awarded such an accolade when he was confronted with internal tangles with African American youth who preferred violent methods to fight against racial discrimination toward blacks. Dr. King organized a march to Washington in 1963 where he stood on the Lincoln Memorial as he gave his most powerful speech. King later discovered that not many or all African Americans wanted to fight for civil liberties as he had presumed. The result of Martin Luther King’s fight for civil rights has been widely experienced across the world as evident in most democracies that uphold voting rights, gender equality and human dignity regardless of race, religion, gender, colour and social class.