Civil Rights : A Promise Betrayed About the Civil Rights Movement and how rights promised to the blacks were never protected, such as the 15th Amendment and others. Lists specific examples.

Civil Rights: A Promise Betrayed         The struggle for civil rights was a battle for the rights instituted in the Constitution; a promise betrayed. Many events influenced the struggle which can be traced throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and the 1960's. Voting rights, assured through the 15th amendment, were denied to blacks through violence and harassment. Education was not fully guaranteed to blacks, and many did not receive any at all. Public facilities …

…of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were promises not enforced or supported by the general public; they only consisted of words. The denial of voting rights, education, proper public facilities, human dignity, and peacefulness emphasized and influenced the struggle for the betrayed rights. Specific events within each denied right further influenced the struggle. Blacks were treated as though the Civil War never occurred, but through toil and effort, they fought for their deserved rights.