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    The way of Martin Luther King Martin is a great person who lead African Americans to achieve the civil right among all people. Why Matin Luther King want get the beneficent of civil right among all people? What is civil right? In my opinion‚ civil right is the right given by the law so that all citizens ships can enjoy equally. Otherwise‚ the opponent of civil right is called discrimination. People could discriminate people among races. People could discriminate people because of disease or

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    During the time of the African American civil rights movement‚ there were many speakers that influenced the decisions made on behalf of this country. Memorable speakers conveyed their ideas through passion and conviction while appealing to mass audiences. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a black American‚ fought for civil rights in a passive manner through speeches such as “I Have A Dream” which showed the evidence of segregation but the inability for civil rights to backslide‚ and the need for unity

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    served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders exploded. On September 15‚ 1963 a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services. Four young girls were killed during the explosion and many others was badly injured. Outrage over the incident with the four young girls’ deaths sparked violence that clashed between protesters and police. The march from Selma to Montgomery is important because it gave black African Americans a reason to fight for their rights to vote as an American citizen. The event led

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    Introduction When Obama was running for president of the United States of America‚ he said that if he won‚ his biggest achievement would be ‘that the world would look at us [blacks] differently’ (Younge 2012). Almost eight years have passed‚ and Americans do look differently at blacks than they did before. Unfortunately this change was not necessarily a positive one. The fact that a black man won the US elections and became one of the most powerful people on earth was said to break racial barriers

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    Civil Rights is a movement that promoted equal rights and treatment of African Americans. Lincoln freed them during the civil war. Just because there were freed‚ granted them equal rights. The sought out equal rights towards the end of the 19th century during the progressive era and their attempts failed. After WWII their efforts were renewed and the movement gained attention again. The African American Leaders 1890-1920s and 1950s-1960s both used nonviolent ways of approaching their goals; however

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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an amazing leader and activist for the American civil rights movement. He did not only stand up for African American rights he stood for equality and love. Through the tuff trials and tribulations‚ he marched with love and for one main purpose which was for to unite all creeds and have equal right despite the pigment of our skin. What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr did was influential‚ incomprehensible and inspiring to see and hear about. Even though some of Dr. Martin Luther

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    written document of the modern civil rights movement and a classic text on civil disobedience”‚ primarily due to King’s impassioned defense of his confrontational tactics. (Bass‚ 2001 ) Initiated because of the response to the reluctance of the city to end segregation‚ the Birmingham Campaign‚ established Birmingham as the hotbed of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Considered a strategic movement to expose the inequality that Birmingham’s African-American citizens existed under began during

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    African Americans are a big part of the American society. There are many of them who have made either a positive or negative impact on the American society. One of them is African American civil rights leader‚ Malcolm X. He was a major 20th-century spokesman for Black Nationalism. Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little on May 19‚ 1925‚ in Omaha‚ Nebraska. His father was a Baptist minister and was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey who was the Black Nationalist leader in the 1920s who advocated

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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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    David Bryant December 22‚ 2013 African American History Early Black Leaders of America In history‚ it is a proven fact that leader is to lead in everything that we do in our daily lives. During the civil rights times on into the current time‚ there were black leaders of America that changed the world. Many black leaders paved the way for many of African Americans today and some died for us. Their ideas‚ tactics‚ and solutions for problems faced by blacks were significant. The three black leaders

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