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    Civil Rights and Internet Monitoring What is internet monitoring? It consists of computer programs that are used to detect the internet activity of computers it located to. Many a places have been suppressed by governments not giving the people a right to view what they want on the internet. Some say the internet is a human right. Others say it is a privilege and should be watched over and scrutinized by the government and businesses for people at work. Many respected internet monitoring software

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    must be dealt with without moderation or patience such as alluded to in the Civil Rights Movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s era. We must continue to exercise our right of peaceful protest so as to make the general public and our representatives aware of the massive‚ and growing‚ discontent and distrust of the American government. The discontent of the American people concerning the presidency‚ minority and women’s rights‚ and immigration need to be addressed

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    AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: 1954-1968 “Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off‚ and then being condemned for being a cripple.1” These were the words of Martin Luther King Jr.. For nearly 80 years after being freed from slavery‚ African-Americans

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    After World War II‚ African Americans demanded changes in American society. African Americans fought in World War II for their country‚ but they returned home to discrimination and inequality. In the late 1940s and 50s American society started to overturn some official discrimination against African Americans. In 1947‚ Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball (891) and in 1948‚ Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. In 1954‚ the Plessey decision of 1896‚ which created two societies

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    The segregation of colored people is a part of American history During this time inequality was an issue for colored people.” Despite the Civil Rights gains of 1960s‚ racial discrimination and repression remain a factor in American life to this day.” (Stonaker‚ Shepard “Segregation”). The segregation depicts how colored people were separated from white people because of their differences. The Civil Rights movement consisted of peaceful and violent acts of protest‚ boycotts‚ and the implementation

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    Specifically‚ developments to get rights for the Americans particularly the blacks I.e. Minorities have had exceptional verifiable criticalness. It secured citizenship for the blacks and different minorities additionally have re-imagined winning origination of the way of social equality and part of government in ensuring these rights. Such sacred changes nullified subjugation and set up the citizenship status of blacks.The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began

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    Influence of Religion on the Civil Rights Movement Religion has had a profound effect on numerous events throughout the course of American history. The Civil Rights Movement was not withheld from the influence of religion‚ particularly Christianity and Islam. Many of the key players such as Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and Malcolm X‚ who were devoted to the cause of justice and equality for African Americans‚ gained their passion from their spiritual roots. Through these religious leaders organizations

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    Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968 What do I need to revise? Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968: Checklist 1) • • •  African Americans in the 19th Century Reconstrustion Jim Crow Plessey v ferguson Understand position of blacks. 4) • • • • • • • • • •  • • •  • • Campaigns 1960-1966 2) • • • • • •  The Early 20th Century 3) • • • • • Great Migration Great War Sense of Community The Depression NAACP Second World War Understand how these factors shape Civil Rights

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    For all of my life‚ I have been an American citizen. I’ve never thought of my freedoms and rights as being a blessing‚ for I’ve never known anything different. But now that I have gone to DC and have seen all of our national buildings and landmarks‚ like the white house‚ Arlington Cemetery‚ the Jefferson Memorial‚ and so on‚ I now have a newly founded appreciation for my liberties. All of the rights I have as an american are very special and unique‚ for the concept of everyone being equal was new

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    Civil Rights Amendment The 13th amendment means to except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted‚ shall exist within the United States. No one should be imprisoned like slavery unless they committed a crime. It got rid of slavery. The 13th amendment is important because slavery is not ok.Slavery is when people is own as there property.The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude‚ except as a punishment for

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