Abstract
The U. S. Civil Rights Movement caused sweeping changes in this society’s public policies and morality.
Deriving from perspectives about what constitutes a good society, this movement was a social practice seeking to realize a vision of specific moral ends. Generally, the moral ends of the movement were to ensure recognition of all persons, especially African Americans, as members of the human community. Recognition is acknowledging persons by others as an expression of recognizing a common humanity.
This often is done through inclusion, especially in opportunities to participate in traditions of social practice which reciprocally reflect this commonality. Beyond the general recognition of all persons’ membership in the human community, moral ends of the Civil Rights Movement specificaly implied recognition of black persons in U.S. society.