The Age of Enlightenment sparked changes all around the globe and created a lasting effect that still occurs even today. Its changes contributed to many lives of Americans ever since the eighteenth century and equal rights amongst men and women arose to a higher level of belief. The race of men and women however, created a different outlook for equal opportunity and being a colored American, for instance, would reduce chances of corresponding treatment as to a Caucasian American. Although the Enlightenment wasn’t so specifically about the colored and Caucasians, it did “…begin to question whether slavery could be ethical..” (Page 7) which falls under the notion of equality. This can relate to todays racial movement known as “Black Lives Matter”, which shows the terror that colored people have to face with the judicial system and the unethical acts from police officers that result in the violent demise of colored people in America. Black Lives Matter continues to fight for its purpose and the ideas it contains of civil and human rights for colored American lives derives from the father of colored social movements known as the Civil Rights Movement conducted in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The ideas of the Civil Rights Movement were all about behaving towards African Americans the same as to Caucasian Americans and respecting the human rights of an African American. Essentially the intention of this movement was for equality, which shows inheritance of beliefs from the Age of Enlightenment and its lasting legacy of effects on the world today. Its because of the thoughts and ideology risen from the Enlightenment that fuels such critical situations to be broken free from constraint and to be lived amongst balance and fairness.