The African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s focused on attaining the most basic rights for African Americans. This Movement focused on the fundamental issues that for White Americans were a basic right. They were freedom‚ respect‚ dignity‚ and economic and social equality. This was a movement of ordinary people who made the difficult decision to stand up for what they believe in. They did this knowing that there would be a price to pay‚ whether it be being jailed‚ assaulted‚ or in
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By 1965 deliberate endeavors to break the hold of state disfranchisement had been in motion for quite a while‚ yet had attained just minimum achievement and in a few regions proved to be inadequate. The killing of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia‚ Mississippi‚ gained national attention‚ alongside various different demonstrations of the viciousness and brutality African Americans endured. On March 7‚ 1965‚ State troopers reeked havoc on black Civil Rights marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus
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The Adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 In the turn of the fifteenth century African American traveled with European explorers‚ especially Spanish and Portuguese to the New world many serving as crew members‚ servants and slaves (Bigelow‚ 2011). African Americans were free in the beginning times of the New World‚ though first white landowners faced labor crisis‚ what appeared easiest was to force the strong‚ hardworking African Americans to slavery by the mid-sixteen
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1964 The Act That Changed It All On July 2‚ 1964‚ life in the United States would change. On that particular date in America‚ the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be passed. The Act would be the starting point for another America like the first domino falling on a domino line. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a standout amongst the most noteworthy occasions in U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction‚ the period from 1865 through 1877 that took after the American Civil War which endeavors were
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The 1965 Enactment By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time‚ but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had proved almost entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia‚ Mississippi‚ gained national attention‚ along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally‚ the unprovoked attack on March 7‚ 1965‚ by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge
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Even after 1961‚ people still continued to campaign for equal rights and freedom for the black Americans. At that time‚ the equal Civil Right system drawn attention to the new president‚ John F Kennedy and on 11 June 1961‚ he declared to support the black Americans for their equal rights. People concluded that the only way that they can win their freedom was to empower ordinary people‚ thus they also started to campaign for the proposed civil rights bill and voting right. Martin Luther King played
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“Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 after many years of protests and increasingly violent acts against African Americans. The Act made it a federal crime to deny a citizen the right to vote. It outlawed a number of tricks and schemes used for decades to disenfranchise African Americans.” “From the 1860s to the 1960s‚ African Americans routinely were denied the right to vote. This occurred mainly in the south‚ in the former Confederate states. But elsewhere‚ other minorities also suffered
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The Voting Right Act in 1965 can easily be seen as a massive victory and step in the right direction for equality. I had always thought the Voting Right Act was the end of it. Until recently I had no idea some states had lacked the ability to make or change laws that concerned voting. I was under the assumption that everyone was equal and had the same rights. I was in complete disbelief when I learned that most of the southern states did not have the ability to change laws for fear they might enforce
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From 1955-1964 the civil rights movement organised a series of campaigns addressing transport‚ education and the segregation of public places. The civil rights movement rarely called themselves that but simply called themselves ‘the movement’ because it indicated that the goals of the movement were much bigger than civil rights’. Martin Luther King wanted not just the death of legal segregation; he wanted the birth of a ‘beloved community’ in which black and white people were an integral part of
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of the leaders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence‚ stated: “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” From the late 1960s‚ to the early 1980s‚ the Black Power Movement (BPM)‚ triggered by the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and influenced heavily by Malcolm X‚ used a variety of techniques‚ including an increasingly militant approach‚ to bring about the change African-Americans demanded‚ with some success and a legacy that still
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