How Did The United State's Civil Right Movement Affect The Civil Rights Movement

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Fifty short years ago, no one would ever have believed that our country would elect our first African-American president in 2008. Civil rights are the rights that each citizen of the United States is entitled to including social and political freedom and equality. During the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s, African-American citizens protested for their basic civil rights. Blacks and whites could not go to school together, use the same bathroom, or even share the same hospital as one another. Due to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and the hard work of many powerful leaders and speakers such as Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson, as well as everyday citizens, the people of the United States have come far enough to elect our first black president of the United States. Many civil rights marches occurred …show more content…
The United State’s Civil Rights Movement influenced the international human rights movement. “Elaine Jones, director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...paid tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt, a primary architect of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948--the first of the great postwar human rights documents. It was followed in the ensuing decades by the adoption of a number of human rights conventions which have greater legal force than the Declaration (IIP Digital).” This quote shows that Eleanor Roosevelt helped encourage people in other countries to fight for their freedoms as well. Since citizens in the United States had fought for their freedoms and ended with success, it inspired other countries to do the same. Although the U.S. had won back some of the black’s freedoms, looking back now it is clear that the real work of winning equal treatment began after the legislative victories took place