Social Changes in the United States due to the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights movement changed socially because of all the Protestants, gatherings, boycotts, sit-ins, and mass meetings. It raised awareness to people, not only black people but also white people protested. After the Civil Rights movement, came the women’s rights movement, the big reason women started protesting and demanding equal rights to job payments as man have, is because of the Civil rights movement. It changed Americans view on their rights and made them believe they can make a change. The African Americans were allowed to access restaurants, bars, public toilets, parks and public facilities, even though they were citizens before, they were denied the right to access these places. In schools, they were allowed to eat, walk, sit, learn and become a regular student in schools. They could even sit in public buses next to whites. One way society has changed is the Freedom riders oppose segregation in 1961. Blacks and whites took buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Whites protest to help blacks and to get them equal rights. They try and help them make a change so that the government can see it.