A great war among the brothers of this Earth.(black-white relations)

McGrath cites that with the murder of Malcolm X, the Selma-to-Montgomery march, and the passage of the Voting Rights Act, 1965 was a pivotal year in American history. Here, he discusses what lessons it hold for America in 2015. The civil rights struggles of yesteryear were certainly successes in the...

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Published in:The Wilson quarterly (Washington) 2015-03, Vol.39 (2)
Main Author: McGrath, Garrett
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American leadership
Aims and objectives
American history
Assassinations & assassination attempts
Black-white relations
Civil rights activists
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Crimes against
Decades
Hispanic Americans
History
King, Martin Luther Jr (1929-1968)
King, Martin Luther, Jr
Malcolm X
Murders & murder attempts
Nonviolence
Racial discrimination
Social networks
Voting Rights Act
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Summary:McGrath cites that with the murder of Malcolm X, the Selma-to-Montgomery march, and the passage of the Voting Rights Act, 1965 was a pivotal year in American history. Here, he discusses what lessons it hold for America in 2015. The civil rights struggles of yesteryear were certainly successes in their own times, enfranchising millions of black Americans, drastically reducing poverty and inequality, ending Jim Crow as they knew it. But after decades of marches and unrest, decades of blood and tears, hope and rage, thwarted ambitions and shattered lives, what has it all amounted to when many Americans need to be reminded that black lives matter? Yet, perhaps the past can offer hope. Fifty years ago, after a divisive black leader was murdered in New York, after a group of peaceful demonstrators in Alabama were beaten by those sworn to uphold the law--a visual plea to the conscience of the American people--Lyndon Johnson, a white man of Southern birth addressed a room filled with powerful white men from around the nation. He told them about teaching young Mexican-American students in Cotulla, how even as children they faced prejudice, and how you can never forget what "hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child." He told them that change was coming, asked them to join in easing its passage.
ISSN:0363-3276
2328-529X