Overview of Chicago Civil Rights

Overview of Chicago Civil Rights

Chicago has been the center of civil rights activists’ movement ever since the ending of World War II and the African Americans have been the dominating groups, though not the only insurgents, in seeking civil rights. Inspire of Chicago being a place of antislavery, the city schools and public housing spaces were racially segregated. This situation lead to recognize the importance in passing civil rights bill and various bills were passed in forthcoming years.

African Americans struggle for equality:
Though whites were given the rights, the African Americans were not treated equally and were forced to struggle for obtaining legal recognition of their citizenship rights. In 1870 the Black Chicagoans gained the right to vote and in 1874 they succeeded in making a law which prevents segregated education and after a decade they wished that they should be liable for total enjoyment of restaurants, shops, malls, theaters and avail facilities on land, water and other benefits, this directed the Illinois legislature to develop the idea of Illinois Civil Rights Act of 1885.

Civil right acts:
In the early 20th century the tension between the races relation had become high as never before, in some theaters blacks were allowed to sit only in balconies.

And there was an urgent need to combat the tense atmosphere and organizations were evolving to fight this, one such foundation was National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), comprising of both white and black members. The African Americans gradually were able to fulfill their wishes and the Civil rights act bill was passed in 1964 and this was followed by Civil rights act 1968.