How Important Was the Role of African Americans Themselves in Achieving Political and Civil Equality for African Americans in the USA Between 1945 and 1965?

Although America claims to be the 'land of the free' and offer equal opportunities to all, there has always been racial prejudice and discrimination to people who are not of WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, protestant) origin. Whether it has been discrimination by de jure of de facto nobody can question that it existed and still exists to a lesser extent today. <Tab/>As a result of the many social changes brought about …

…before on the bus, however the time that made it public was when she got arrested for it, publicity like this worked in favour of blacks and the utilised it in their campaigns. The white bigots who did not want integration ironically played a part in making changes for blacks, without the television coverage of white police brutality on peaceful marches, the black case may never have made it to the public or world eye.