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    The New Civil Rights Movement The Civil rights movement made many accomplishments during its time. Throughout the 1960s-1970s‚ the civil rights movement shifted perspective on how to achieve their goals as well as those who had an influence on it. Civil right movement followers faced many challenges‚ some being from the changing character of the movement. The civil rights movement was greatly influenced by Martin Luther King Jr. and his nonviolent methods. Although this method was very successful

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    original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made‚ through disobedience‚ and through rebellion”. Although one may disagree with such an opinion‚ keeping in mind that society is taught at a very young age of what is wrong and what is right‚ sometimes obedience and disobedience fall under the same category. Like obedience‚ disobedience can also be seen as a virtue. The human race is taught to follow certain rules‚ obey authority‚ and to live their life the way the government sees fit

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    Integration is important because everyone should be treated equally no matter what color they are. There were so many people trying to stop all of this from happening during the Civil Rights Movement. Some were even assassinated for standing up for what they believed in. Many people took part in marches‚ bus boycotts to protest segregation. For example people took part in the bus boycotts because Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus Montgomery‚ Alabama. People got angry

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    easier to live in. African Americans during the civil rights movement had to face a lot of trills in order to make the world a better place. Many people don’t appreciate that because they are unaware of just how much grief African Americans had to go though to create a path for the upcoming generation. African Americans faced many hardships during the civil rights movement‚ some of those hardships were segregation‚ voting rights‚ and assassination of prominent African American leaders. Segregation

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    very first African Americans arrived in America‚ coming over for the purpose of forced slavery. It’s been nearly four hundred years since then and African Americans are still not treated completely equal. But throughout the years major steps towards equality have been made and as a whole the United States is close to reaching this goal. The first key action taken was abolishing slavery in 1865‚ but African Americans didn’t start gaining equal rights until 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement. The African

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    King Jr.‚ SNCC‚ CORE and the SCLC make to civil rights? The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this‚ Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and the nation’s first black justice‚ he came up with a distinctive legal

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    Intro By analysing various sources a judgement is clear that Martin Luther King Jr. actions were powerful and influential. King revolted against hatred‚ oppression and had the desire of true freedom for the African American society. (bit emotional here) King.... the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957‚ (narrative) serving as its first president and inspired millions of followers with his motivational speech “I have a dream”. King had been

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    began on December the first of 1955 ‚ when a black woman ‚ Rosa Parks‚ refused to let her bus seat to a white man‚ even so she was in the "Colored zone" of the bus ‚ but still was given a penalty for it. Martin Luther King‚ a young black pastor ‚ started a campaign and encourage the boycott of Montgomery’s buses‚ that lasted 381 days‚ this was the decisive point of the beginning of Civil Rights Movement. This movement has succeeded because of the Civil Disobedience‚ the Non-violent actions‚ and how

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    During the civil rights movement of the 1960s‚ two prominent forms of protesting emerged. The act of nonviolent resistance‚ which was influenced by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ was a way to protest peacefully‚ without attacking groups that opposed the movement. The effects of direct action‚ which were highly influenced by activists such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X‚ were more violent and aggressive. Had these forms of protesting stood alone during the civil rights movement‚ America may not have

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    African Americans: Fighting For Their Rights During the mid 1950s to late 1960s African Americans started responding to the oppressive treatment shown to them by the majority of white people in the country. They responded to the segregation of blacks and whites during that time and the double standards the African Americans were held to. African Americans responded to their suppression by participating in boycotts‚ marches‚ sit-ins‚ and trying to get legislation passed so that they could overcome

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