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The 1950s was an era in American history booming with racism and hatred. Black people had been enduring nearly 100 years of Jim Crow Laws following the emancipation of slaves. Jim Crow laws were unwritten laws that separated Blacks and Whites, for example separate water fountains or schools.

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The Civil Rights Movement gained its historical traction in the 1960s, but unofficially started in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her rightful seat on the bus to a white passenger.

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By the 1970s, many legal accomplishments were achieved in equality for African Americans. Jim Crow laws were no longer legal as of 1964 after the Civil Rights Act. Despite this, racism was still alive in the United States.

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The late 1980s and the 1990s was a time of dismantling the years of segregation, continuing with greater political advocation, and lessening the wealth and education gap between Whites and Blacks.

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The Black Lives Matter Movement has changed drastically from its beginning in 2013.

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Work was very different for White and Black people. Black men were subject to more Blue-collar jobs due to lesser access to greater education, while women were most commonly “Help”.

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“"Now measure ten drops into the paint . . . There, that's it, not too goddam fast. Now. You want no more than ten, and no less." (Ellison 154).

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This may be a metaphor for what Black people have done for America, yet it goes unnoticed, or is highly ridiculed and not given the credit deserved.

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The 2009 book by Kathryn Stockett, “The Help” depicts the life of an African American women in the 1950s/60s working as the “Help,” or a worker in a white household. The book powerfully portrays the kindness and compassion a White family showed to a Black women during the Civil Rights Movement and in a country filled with racism, at the time.

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“Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought.” (Stockett 492)

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Unofficially, but many historians agree it was the moment that started the movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her spot on the bus to a White man.

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Despite the false idea that the Civil Rights Movement was the first time African Americans banned together to protest against racism, it was not. Even with their great contributes to the WWII war effort, African Americans came home to their jobs of little pay and no recognition. In 1941 African Americans planned to march on Washington if President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not allow for equal employment rights. To prevent, he did issue and Executive Order no longer allowing pay discrimination based on means of race. However, little actually changed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vl4I0weXPU&t=24s

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“How could you treat a Negro as equal in war and then deny him equality in times of peace?” (Ellison 8).

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Even though their great help to the war effort, back home no appreciation was shown. IM directly talks of this, how African Americans came home to the life they lived before, poor and struggling, getting not even praise for their great help.

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The Civil Rights Movement took shape in many different forms. Like those led by the beloved Martin Luther King Jr, many protests were peaceful, at least by way of the African Americans. King stood for achievement of equality by peace, giving speeches and leading marches, he inspired many across the country to join the movement. Other Civil Rights leaders had different views of the movement.

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“…his dream, conceived in the starkness and darkness of slavery, fulfilled now even in the air you breathe, in the sweet harmonies of your blended voices, in the knowledge which each of you -- daughters and granddaughters, sons and grandsons, of slaves -- all of you partaking of it in bright and well-equipped classrooms.” (Ellison 94).

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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, to a more violent approach to the Civil Rights Movement. In his autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he explains his childhood How his father was murdered by the Klu Kux Klan when Malcolm was just 6, and Malcolm going to jail for the first at the age of 20. These events paved way for his passionate hate for the White man, and his view on using violence “by any means necessary.”

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“For the white man to ask the black man why he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep ‘Do you hate me?’ The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate!” (X 245)

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Malcolm X inspired those across the country to fight for Black rights with no exceptions, no fears, and no boundaries.

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A new counterculture movement, Black Power, emphasized African Americans self-reliance and ability to achieve without the help of the White man.

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The Black Power Movement was supported by Malcolm X, and more heavily followed his word and views.

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"The black man, the original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. The devil white man, down through history, out of his devilish nature, had pillaged, murdered, raped, and exploited every race of a man not
white" (X 165).

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The Black Panther Party were a group in support of the Black Power Movement. The Black Panthers fought for more political change while using violence when necessary to protect against police brutality.

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Despite its stern oppose to following the White man, the Black Panthers did not believe in fighting racism with racism. Rather, get the White man to listen.

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“How can he tell this to white men, I thought, when he knows they'll say that all Negroes do such things?” (Ellison 47).

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MLK believed, like IM, you cannot defeat racism, or any kind of hatred, with the same hatred one had been shown. One must fight to show one is worthy, with only peace in one’s heart. Malcolm X believe the opposite. One must oppress the oppressor.

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The Black Power Movement did believe in fighting racism with

racism.

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The Black Lives Matter Movement first began after the shooting of Black boy Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old who was factually shot in his neighborhood in 2013. His death enraged many across the country, particularly African Americans sick of the constant racially motivated violence against them. One women took to social media to share her sadness of Martin’s death, ending her post with “Black Lives Matter”. The catchphrase took off, as people all over social media began to use “BlackLivesMatter. From there, the organization Black Lives Matter came about, to work against police brutality, racial discrimination, and advocate for greater equality for African Americans. #BLM

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“They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.” (Ellison 393).

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After the 2020 killing of George Floyd, the movement began to pick up traction yet again, this time not only nationally but globally. For America, the movement became polarizing.

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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.” (X 130).

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George Floyd was a Black man killed by the hands of a white police officer in 2020. Not long later, the killing of Breonna Taylor caused a massive growth in the movement. Protests all around the country happened, and social media was overwhelmed with #BlackLivesMatter.

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To show its massive growth, the 2020 Presidents, candidates were judged by many for their support or disapproval of Black Lives Matter, or its counter movement, Blue Lives Matter in support of police officers.

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“Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat. Sometimes you're ahead and sometimes behind.” (Ellison 8).

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The Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights movement had many similarities. The events of 2020 heavily reflected the events in the 1960s, a time of unrest across the country. Many African Americans have expressed the feeling of invisibility within the country, somehow that has not changed even with time.

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In 2020, the organization made $90 million in profits.

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The idea of what Black people should be or are has allotted for the events that led up to the BLM movement.

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Like the kindness shown in “The Help,” life for African Americans can change.