Songs and the Civil Rights Movement. Retrieved from http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_songs_and_the_civil_rights_movement/ Thepeoplehistory (2013). 1960 ’s Music played in the 60 ’s Bands groups singers memories from The People History
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TASK One of the key roles for effective Team Leaders is to communicate with their team in a variety of ways. To complete this task you need to prepare and present a briefing to your team. The topic of the briefing should relate to a work issue that you and your team will be required to participate in – e.g. reviewing production figures with the aim of improving production‚ a forthcoming team building event. The briefing should take no more than 5 minutes to deliver. Please use the headings
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the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King was a Baptist Minister and a social activist. He was born on January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia at their family home. He was the second child of Martin Luther King‚ Sr. and Alberta Williams King (The King Center‚ About Dr. King). Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott King‚ together they had four children. Dr. King’s goal as an activist was to try and achieve equality for African Americans in a nonviolent way. He was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement
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9-Fannie Lou Hamer-Fannie Lou was born on October 6‚1917 in Mountgomery‚Mississippi. She played a big part in the civil rights movememnt. She was a activist‚helped african americans get the rights to vote and co founded the Mississippi Fredom Democratic party. She was a hard working child. Being the youngest of 20 kids‚at age 6 she began working in the fields. At the age of 12‚she dropped out of school to work full time to support her family. She married Perry “Pap” Hamer in 1944. In the summer of
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African Americans in that time. The primary source below demonstrates the number of laws that were present for African Americans. These laws present the state of how the poor mistreatment of African Americans had led to their success in the civil rights movement. School desegregation was a process that occurred when the Jim Crow Laws separated African Americans and Americans in the educational system. However a ruling from the Supreme Court’s Brown‚ outlawed the decision to separate. The source below
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Voting rights • Employment • Public Opinion Education • The 1954 Brown case – established that a segregated education could never be an equal one. • Although there were other legal victories which attempted to speed up integration‚ progress towards desegregation was slow. • In 1957‚ 3 years after the Brown case which ruled that segregation was illegal in all schools‚ 97% of black students remained in segregated schools. • Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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One cause of the Civil Rights Movement is discrimination. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things‚ especially on the grounds of race‚ age‚ or gender. One example of discrimination is‚ if you go to a store you might or might not get serviced. If you pay for food at a food stand‚ you may or may not get the food you ordered. Also‚ if you go to a store and they don’t like you being in the store‚ they won’t help you. The store employees would
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Civil Disobedience means to peacefully refuse or comply with specific laws you personally do not agree with‚ and accepting the consequences by not following said laws. Throughout history you see Civil Disobedience from great people such as Martin Luther King Jr‚ Rosa Parks‚ “later in life” Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. Each of these great historic people contributed to Civil Disobedience‚ trying to equalize African Americans in a Caucasian set world. As a whole our instinctive feeling is to divide
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Douglass‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Sojourner Truth‚ Our president Abraham Lincoln‚ Jackie Robinson‚ post World War II litigation efforts of Thurgood Marshall‚ and lastly in the language of Martin Luther King Jr ‚ since the Civil War for anything to really change towards human rights‚ civil rights at that. "The Declaration of Independence has always represented a “declaration of intent rather than of reality‚” the unfulfilled quest for equality will test the nation’s best efforts for generations to come"
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The curriculum made sure to include black history‚ the philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement‚ and leadership development. The Freedom Schools had hoped to draw at least 1‚000 students that first summer‚ and ended up with 3‚000 (“Freedom Schools”). Freedom Schools left a positive legacy. They instilled among African Americans a new awareness and a new self-assurance in political action. As Fannie Lou Hamer later said‚ "Before the 1964 project there were people that wanted change‚ but they hadn’t
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