Without equality.....blacks were criticized and killed for the color of their skin...the Klu Klux Klan was allowed to killed them as they killed a whole "rich" neighborhood of blacks. What is equality? Equality is the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, freedom, and opportunities. Back people do not have freedom as of right now... they have liberty, and liberty is
the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The leaders of the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to dismantle institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality. Indeed, they followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s guiding principles of nonviolence and passive resistance. Civil rights leaders had long understood that segregationists would go to any length to maintain their power and control over blacks. Consequently, they believed some changes might be made if enough people outside the South witnessed the violenceblacks had experienced for decades.
According to Bob Moses and other civil rights activists, they hoped and often prayed that television and newspaper reporters would show the world that the primary reason blacks remained in such a subordinate position in the South was because of widespread violence directed against them. History shows there was no shortage of violence to attract the media. One measure of equality suggested by the British sociologist T.H. Marshall is “citizenship” - the “basic human equality associated with . . . full membership of a community.” African American history, from bondage through the civil rights movement, is often seen through the political lens as a struggle for citizenship and full membership in American society. A new chapter in this struggle has now emerged. How has the quest for equality and citizenship fared in this new era of mass incarceration? Criminalrecords – make it very difficult for people with criminal records, who are most often indigent and persons of color, to become full and productive members of society. Policy makers must evaluate the racially disparate impact of these laws, and begin to develop new policies to counter the devastating effects of these policies on communities of color. It eventually became effective!