American Civil Movement - without the images and their captionsAmerican Indian Movement (AIM)Who were they? What did they suffer? The American Indian Movement (AIM) began with 200 native American "Indians" who called a group of Native American communist activist leaders to meet: George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt as well as Russell Means. The late 20th century saw a sharp increase in institutionalized racism and legal discrimination against citizens of African descent in the United States. Throughout this post-Civil War period, poll taxes, acts of terror such as lynchings (often carried out by groups such as the new Ku Klux Klan, founded in the Reconstruction South), and laws Discriminatory policies such as "grandfather clauses" (which excluded poor and illiterate African-American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but did not deny poor and illiterate whites the right to vote) held black Americans apart, especially in the Southern states Was AIM inevitable, even if these individuals had not formed it The American Indian Movement was the symbolic unity of Indians protesting and fighting for it? the right to be treated equally The movement was driven by people who have suffered the consequences of race and segregation, people who come together with courage to turn their lives on a better path and are determined. to create racial harmony in the United States. Therefore, even without inspiring individuals such as Russell Means, the movement could still have happened. Evidence prior to the founding of the AIM showed American Indian discontent with the imbalance of rights in society. The so-called “justification” law of the time greatly favored white men over...... middle of paper ......ence. However, is this what we would have done if we were them? There are much better ways to resolve these chasms of racism between Native and non-Native Americans in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Our methods are rather abstract, but if there were even several white people supporting and raising awareness of the racism towards Native Americans, it would go a long way to hire people to teach (especially non-Native) kids how bad racism is and show that mixing different ethnicities within the same community could work well. Personally, I think that while the violence and media attention ultimately worked well, it wasn't necessary. Now it is up to us, as current members of the global community, to decide. Thank you for walking this journey with us and I hope YOU can look to the past history of Native Americans as an inspiration to promote multiculturalism and the fight against racism.!