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How far was the Civil Rights Movement in the United States a ‘revolution from below’?
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How far was the Civil Rights Movement in the United States a 'revolution from below'? When slavery was abolished in the United States in 1863, one would assume that the most logical outcome of this would be for black people to have had the same rights as whites: the right to own land, receive a good education and so on. However, this was certainly far from the case, as especially in the southern areas, where black slavery had been an entrenched part of local white culture, black people found themselves constantly discriminated against, often in inhuman ways. Indeed, between 1890 and 1910, over two thousand mob murders of blacks occurred, largely in the rural 'Black Belt' counties stretching from Virginia to Texas. However, after the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, it became clear that the so-called bastion of democracy was behaving rather undemocratically in denying voting...
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