The Domino Effect

             Why is it so important in the civil rights movement? It speed things up, with out it civil rights would still be a problem today. Brown vs Board of education was arguably the first domino to fall and it took 6 court rulings to do so. The next domino to fall a year later the montgomery bus boycott took a lot of resources as well. The domino effect really start to take control and influence the masses with lunch counter sit ins and freedom riders from all across the country protesting inequality. Everyday people got swept up in the wave of the desire for equality and all this passion came together on one day the the march on Washington in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. knew the domino effect would not last forever “it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.” Martin Luther King Jr. he used that momentum to excel the agenda bringing the civil rights act of 1964 to be passed. With the help of the domino effect the black community went from 2nd class citizens and the tragic death of Emmett Till in 1955 to 1st class citizens by law in under ten years.

 

I whole heartily agree with this theory and doing all this research has really opened my eyes on the power of momentum.