Alabama played an important role in the American Civil Rights movement through their Jim Crow Laws‚ the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ the Freedom Rides‚ and the Sit-in Movements. One
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National Guard there to protect them. There were the Freedom Rides of 1961‚ which led to Kennedy ordering the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue a new desegregation act; however‚ those participating in the sit-ins were harassed and arrested (at least some of them.) However‚ by the end of the 1960s‚ the Civil Rights Movement had definitely progressed. African-Americans registered to vote; Mississippi universities were integrated; affirmative action was enforced in 1965; interracial marriages were legalized
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Movement The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was one of the most significant events for the equality of all people. By the 1960s‚ African Americans had dealt with white supremacy in social situations and government policies. Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily in southern and border states. This made schools‚ types of transportation‚ and restrooms separated by race. The system was in use between 1877 and the mid 1960s. Rights were violated often because of
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SS 105 November 2012 Essay: Civil-Rights Movement The time period in which many African Americans endured crucial discipline and segregation was known as the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place during the 1950s and 1960s. African Americans were brave during this time period; they decided that enough was enough and that change needed to be implemented. The Civil Rights Movement challenged aspects of the tri-partite system of dominations in many ways. One example was
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token reports that “Baker left the SCLC after the Greensboro sit-ins. She wanted to assist the new student activists because she viewed young‚ emerging activists as a resource and an asset to the movement. Miss Baker organized a meeting at Shaw University for the student leaders of the sit-ins in April 1960. From that meeting‚ the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- SNCC -- was born. Baker left the SCLC after the Greensboro sit-ins. She wanted to assist the young and emerging student activists
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but it wasn’t until the 1960’s that the movement actually began to actively affect the daily lives of Americans. Previously‚ the Civil Rights advocates had been attempting to simply integrate themselves into the whole of America as a result of the discriminatory mindset of many whites and the unfair treatment of blacks‚ but this goal shifted dramatically during the sixties as the movement pushed forward. These early integration attempts included non-violent methods such as sit-ins‚ demonstrations in
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Gregory Orr puts these ideas into context in his memoir‚ “Return to Hayneville”‚ in which he recounts his experience and involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”‚ focuses‚ in particular‚ on the civil rights movement concentrates to the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro‚ North Carolina. Gladwell’s ideas and opinions of social and political emancipations are given a real world setting‚ as presented by Orr. Involvement
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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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The case in point is Plessy v. Ferguson‚ in which Jim Crow Laws were challenged. Homer Plessy‚ a man who was one-eighth black‚ negated the norms of segregation by refusing to sit on the section of a train reserved for color people only. He was arrested as a result‚ convicted‚ and fined for disobeying the law. This case went to the Supreme Court where it was ruled by a judge under the legal basis that segregation was reasonable
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section of: "De finibus bonorum et malorum‚" a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero‚ with words altered‚ added‚ and removed that make it nonsensical‚ improper Latin. A variation of the common Lorem Ipsom text has been used during typesetting since the 1960s or earlier‚ when it was popularized by advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets. It was introduced to the Digital Age by Aldus Corporation in the mid-1980s‚ which employed it in graphics and word processing templates for its breakthrough desktop
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