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    Civil Rights Notes

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    Taylor Brinkley Black Power- Defined as‚ “a call for black people to begin to define their own goals.” It was made to try to get African Americans to try their best to obtain freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. disliked what they were doing because he said it would cause violence. Sit-Ins- A group of students went to eat at a white lunch counter. They refused to leave until they were served. It sparked many other cases of people doing this. Store owners raised prices and removed counter seats but they

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    national and international attention to African Americans’ plight. In the turbulent decade and a half that followed‚ civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change‚ and the federal government made legislative headway with initiatives such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during the Civil Rights era‚ including Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Rosa

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    The Civil Rights Of 1953

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    The Civil Rights of 1953-964 was a social movement by African Americans to end segregation and discrimination in the United States. This social reform and movement primarily took place in the South because it was the most segregated place in the North America. The civil rights movements is such a critical time period in African-American history which leads to many significant figures and events. For example important figures such as: Ella Baker‚ James Farmer‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ John Lewis‚

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    Civil Rights DBQ In the 1960’s the movement for African American civil rights dramatically changed due strong activist‚ presidential commitments‚ and numerous protest. Every part of what helped changed the civil rights movement was a key aspect in the gaining of African American civil rights. All of these movements were composed of inspirational leaders such and Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X in which there goals were to end all injustices for not only African Americans but for

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    In the history of the American civil rights movement‚ two seminal figures emerge: that of the peaceful and nonviolent Martin Luther King‚ Jr‚ and the revolutionary and radical Malcolm X. From these two contrasting images‚ America did not know how exactly to classify the movement. On one hand‚ Malcolm X preached independence and a "by any means necessary" approach to achieving equality in The United States and on the other‚ King preached a nonviolent‚ disobedient philosophy similar to that of Gandhi

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    THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT NOTE TAKING THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II • Black American soldiers had fought against Fascism during WWII • Increased their desire for freedom‚ especially the south african american. • While resistance took the form of beatings‚ shootings‚ refusal of credit and jobs. • The Committee of Civil Rights was set up by President Truman inn 1947 and a program of reforms was devised. THE 1950s • Black Americans moved to the cities and towns from agricultural. • Children

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    Anthony Delise Professor Lightfoot American Government 19 November 2015 Civil Rights Movement: Freedom from Discrimination The Civil rights Movement was a movement to end racial segregation and discrimination not only against women but also against African Americans and manly covers the time between 1954 and 1968. It was characterized by many major campaigns of civil resistance like the Rosa Parks Montgomery bus boycott; where Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat for a white person; or

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    to support the Civil and Post-Civil Rights Movements. She dosent in fact recieves as much reconization as she deserves but hey shes Oprahs. In times of nationwide distress everyone turns for Oprahs response so when a civil rights contrversy breaks over the nation Oprah is the first one on it. She gives her opinion she supports it with fact and reasonings. She honors the legends and she encourages the rookies. She fights for equality. Oprah Winfrey received the National Civil Rights Museum’s prestigious

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    The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement Michelle Brown The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s were a profound turning point in American History. African American’s had been fighting for equality for many years but in the early 1950s the fight started to heighten‚ from Rosa Parks‚ to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ to Malcolm X‚ the fight would take on many different forms over the span of two decades‚ and was looked at from many different

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    Malcolm X and Civil Rights

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    The civil rights movement of the 1950s brought to light the atrocities and trials that the African Americans were put through on a daily basis. Malcolm X‚ an influential speaker and proponent of this movement‚ invigorates all people to stand up for justice and fight for proper civil rights. Through his rhetorical choices of sentence length‚ vivid imagery‚ symbolism and historical examples‚ X develops the three persuasive appeals‚ pathos‚ ethos and logos. Malcolm X attacks the white man for the hardships

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