Social Movements and Social Justice

Social Movement and Social Justice
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Social Movement and Social Justice
Question One
Martin Luther King embodies resilience against ills of oppression and infringement of fundamental human rights. His notions underpin and encapsulate the ideals of Civil Rights transformation from an outfit that focuses on civil rights to a strive entrenched with economic and anti-global war politics. This section of the paper will explore such transition, multiple facets of the Civil Rights struggle between the 1950s and 1960s, and the backlash that followed Civil Rights Movement strives, as packaged as "law and order," a concept extensively discussed by Keeanga-Yamahtta Tailor.
The narratives about the civil rights movement and struggles are embedded in crevices of history and socio-economic and political contexts. The Civil Rights Movement was advance by liberal ideologists. Martin Luther King Jr. Initially, the movement against oppression was driven by aspirations for better civil rights practice. Was this liberation movement anchored on the need for civil rights only? Or they needed more than merely civil rights acquisitions? Understandably, initial efforts geared towards the acquisition of civil rights were well informed by circumstances surrounding that time.
The black community was denied civil rights, thereby, fail to access equal social opportunities and similar protections under the law, irrespective of religion, age, gender, race, and other individual defining features. For instance, civil rights activists non-violently defied Jim Crow, demanding full citizenship rights in the 1960s (Bloom & Martin, (2016). The ostracized community needs first to overcome impediments that prevent them from accessing equal rights and treatment. The second phase of the civil movement was to fight socio-economic and environmental transformation to guarantee them better lives in terms of economic opportunism and social services access. Martin Luther King captures this description of the civil rights movement and subsequent outgrowth of movement aspirations to cover other areas of human interests. Martin Luther King argues that the black revolution, also called Civil Rights Movement, reflects not only a fight for rights for Negros, but it represents a broader strive to interrogate and challenge interrelated American laws touching on racism, materialism, poverty, and militarism (Singh, 2004).
The Civil Rights Movement, advanced by various social changes, received backlash, which even led to Martin Luther King's assassination. Other assassinations that demonstrate backlash to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s include the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 (Bloom & Martin, 2016). In the 1960s, there were many resistances and threats towards the Civil Rights Movements. Some of these civil movement challenges were packed as "law and orders." The civil rights movement encountered several clashes with police, where the black could sometimes do self-defense against the police. Hate groups comprising white supremacists also emerged during the 1960s and launched vicious resistance against civil rights movements. For instance, Student Non-Violent Co...