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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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    Major Points: Lynching‚ Mississippi Trial‚ 1955 Thesis Statement: The murder of Emmitt Till was a murder that changed America The Emmett Till Case‚ 1955 Chilling Circumstances The story surrounding the death of Emmett Till provides chilling insight into the racism that dominated the South in the 1950s. Emmett was a fourteen-year-old Chicago native visiting his relatives in Mississippi. While out with his cousins and friends on the night of August 24‚ 1955 he allegedly whistled at a white woman in

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    promoted quickly. Effective leaders are those who have satisfied and productive employees (Luthans 1988)’ (Hopkins‚ et al. 2006‚ p. 253). Katz published his theory about what managers do in about 1955. Peterson and Van Fleet (2004 p. 1297) explain Katz’s approach to researching management. They cite Katz’s 1955 article saying that it is not e.g. a manager’s personality traits that makes them good back or indifferent as a manager – it is what they can accomplish that makes them good bad or indifferent

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    In the United States in 1955‚ homosexuality was included in the second edition of the DSM as a disorder of sexual deviance with grounds for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. This manual was distributed to psychiatrists and other medical professionals for their clinical use. Many Americans believed that homosexual individuals were abnormal‚ perverted‚ and had a mental disorder. Homosexuality was stigmatized and homophobia was prevalent. According to Christopher Boorse and his naturalist theory

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    John Brack The painting is called ‘Collins Street 5pm’and was painted in 1955. It is an oil painting on canvas‚ sized 114.6 x 162.9 cm. Collins Street 5pm‚ 1955‚ oil on canvas‚ 114.6x162.9cm Collins Street 5pm‚ 1955‚ oil on canvas‚ 114.6x162.9cm John Brack has used dull mainly consisting of black‚ brown and dirt yellow colour. He has used a very limited palette of colours. There was lots of repetition used in this painting: The people in the middle‚ the hats of the people in the

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    (Montague: 1955) some people in today’s time believe that to be baptised was only to be done in the past ages and that it is outmoded in today’s time. (Montague: 1955) states that people have grown tired of the ancient teachings but is this way they are failing to value the power and the sacredness that it has to the believer’s faith. He also states that many have really taken this ritual seriously and still do it to the fullest in our time today. What baptism represents to (Montague: 1955) is to be

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    adventure‚ science fiction film. Set in 1985 and 1955. It is filmed in Santa Clarita & South Pasadena‚ California‚ USA. The movie was realised on July 3rd 1985. The story in tails the audience about a teenage boy called Marty McFly. Who sent himself back in time from 1985 to 1955 with a time traveling car. Which was invented by his good friend that is a scientist named Dr. Emmett Brown but know in the film he is named Doc. When Marty was sent back to 1955 he forgot to take with him the sufficient plutonium

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    the continuance of life” (Camus‚ 1955‚ Myth of Sisyphus‚ p179). He sees suicide as eluding the problem of the absurd‚ escaping from it the extreme measure of escape. To revolt against the absurd we have to keep living it‚ to contemplate it‚ a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity (Camus‚ 1955‚ Myth of Sisyphus‚ p183). The revolt gives life its value‚ what we want from the world meaning‚ values and eternal

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    ideologies  and  consequentially  their  satellite  states  in  the  interests  of  peace‚  whether   Khrushchev  was  entirely  committed  to  this  notion  is   debatable  due  to  his  ‘behind  the  scenes’  actions  between  1955  and  1962.  The Austrian  state  treaty  of 1955 seemed  to show  Khrushchev’s  commitment  to  peaceful  coexistence‚  but  his  aggression after the U2 spy plane incident of 1960 and the gamble with  peace  over  the  Berlin   wall  in  1961  and  Cuba  in  1962  suggest 

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