African American Civil Rights
As part of the 3rd year research at the University of Sheffield, I undertook a study of the African-American civil rights movement. Research can be tough, and at times, it can be a little daunting. In order to develop a full understanding of any research topic, you need to read far more than you could ever then analyse in your written research afterwards, and as a result, there is always a feeling that you have left things out that are actually quite important. Furthermore, the very fact that you spend so much time on your research means that it is very easy to get really bored of it and start to almost resent it.
I'm glad to say that I didn't experience any of that in my research on African-American civil rights. There were other pieces of research that I couldn't bear, but my work on African-American civil rights always fascinated me. I'm hoping that it will fascinate you too. I'm not going to cram it all into one post, but instead spread it out over a series of posts.
The research itself focuses upon the African-American civil rights movement in the years 1954-1968. 1954 was the year the Montgomery Bus Boycott started; 1968 was the year that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis. In those years, there was a great transformation in the fight for African-American civil rights, and my research looked at the role of non-violent ideology and movements in that change, looking at the historical context of African-American civil rights, the role of faith and the key events in the movement. If you want to read the research, you can download it, but otherwise, I will discuss some of it here in the coming weeks.
Ultimately, my argument is that non-violence was an effective method employed by the African-American civil rights movement, though not one that was successful by itself. Instead, it relied upon other factors which, when employed alongside non-violence, gained the attention and legal intiative required to further civil rights in America.
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