AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS THE SIXTIES, OBAMA, AND THE ROAD AHEAD When you think of the United States, you think of the phrase "land of the free." Americans should all have equal rights, no matter
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AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS THE SIXTIES, OBAMA, AND THE ROAD AHEAD
When you think of the United States, you think of the phrase "land of the free." Americans should all have equal rights, no matter what their race. Whether Americans are Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic, race should not determine the amount of rights you receive. Although America has evolved and made progress, most of the African Americans living in this country are still being treated poorly.
Today, African Americans are able to do all the things they were not allowed to do back in the 1960s and is equal to that of whites. This is the way the United States should stay and the way it should have always been. The current status of civil rights for African Americans is vastly different from what it used to be. In the 1960s, African Americans were not allowed to use the same facilities as white people, were not given the right to vote, and were slaves. In Raymond Arsenault's Freedom Riders, he states