Racism in the 60s

By the start of the decade, racism was a very common occurrence throughout the USA. The initial point of the movement was by February when four black students sat down in a whites-only lunch. When asked to leave, they refused and that turned into a whole movement for the rights of the black people. How? Tens of thousands followed their example and spreading like a virus in a few days it became a statement with national attention. The main focus of the protesters was drawing attention to the still active Jim Crow laws that consisted of the racial segregation that still existed in the southern states.

Still, it wasn't until 1964 that the Federal Government finally made his move. By then, President Johnson pushed a «Civil Rights Act». Its main objective was to prohibit any type of racial discrimination in public and the promise of making jobs equally accessible for everyone, independent of their genre or race. In the years to come, more laws would be approved with the same objective as the one mentioned before but that didn't stop more movements and even radicals emerge from the ideas of equality and even self-defense given the complicated situation that each black person lived in.

So my work in this blog will consist of what happened in the 60s that was crucial to the evolution of the social mindset that we majorly see today.

                                                                                                   João Neves