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=Topic - Midwestern Viewpoint of the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's=

=Subject - Joey's Grandma=

Although the majority of the Civil Rights Movement occurred in the South, the entire nation was effected by it and the Midwest became home to many African Americans during the industrial boom of the 50's and 60's. However, almost all of the African Americans that moved to the north were forced to live in the Negro communities or black ghettos which were set outside of the main city. Harsh racism such as lynching and not being able to vote has not reached the Midwest area. Though, African Americans are still subjected to racism by being forced to live in crude and crowded ghettos. All African Americans are looked upon as inferior to all whites no matter the race.

Though, it is not all bad for African Americans in the South. When I say this, I mean that it is much better than the treatment that African Americans receive in the South. Restriction policies have been mostly banned or abolished. Such as segregated public facilities, voting acts, and laws excluding African Americans rights. No longer are African Americans excluded in the business area and are allowed to work side by side with whites. Also, you will rarely see a public display of discrimination against African Americans in the Midwest. Schools have slowly begun to segregate and are allowing African Americans in to the premisis. However, it is not an easy task because many white children's parents are enfuriated about the thought of their son going to school with an African American. So, policies are made that allow African Americans go to school with whites under their set conditions.

Nonviolent strategies used by the Congress of Race Equality were used in the Midwest as a way of protesting. Sit ins were a popular method to stop the segregation in local restaurants and they were not always approved by national leaders of the NAACP. Though, sit ins were used in Wichita, Kansas and this would later lead to sit in protests in Oklahoma City and Greensboro, North Carolina. Activists, black and white, male and female, represented a large portion of organizations that moved forward in the postwar years to change their separate cities and states. They challenged all forms of racial discrimination in their cities, including such places as employment, public facilities and definitely schools. Ever since 1946, African American parents had been attempting to stop racial segregation in their school districts.

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= = = Media media type="youtube" key="uyi4PNcLPf8" height="364" width="445" After the Watts Riots of 1965 in Los Angeles, Dr. King and the SCLC decided to expand to beyond the south and they chose to extend to Chicago, Illinois. = [] MLK was the chairman of the SCLC during that later years of his life. They continued to protest in Chicago, but eventually lost hope and abandoned the campaign.

[] All of MLK's protests, including in the north were nonviolent. Protesting in the midwest consisted of marches and sit ins, actions of protests, but with no violence.