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    Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama to a teacher and a carpenter. One of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave. When she was little‚ she suffered from poor health because of tonsillitis. Rosa took classes at rural schools till she was eleven. She went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but dropped out to take care

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    Nov. 2011 How did the Civil Rights Movement Change America? Research Paper Amber Paschal Young Henderson Middle School Thesis This paper will explain how the civil rights movement changed America. The civil rights movement occurred to ensure African American rights‚ and plummeted during the 1950s and 1960s. if this movement wasn’t successful‚ the world would be way different than it is today. The civil rights movement was the time in America

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    fought trials of segregation and discrimination. During the 1950- 1970s the NAACP were known for going on big cases in Montgomery for American rights.The NAACP was a powerful group of Civil Rights leaders that took charge to create equality for all races in America. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was very important during the Civil Rights era. The NAACP had created many protests and fought cases due to segregation. The NAACP was a big help during the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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    Parks was an African American civil rights activist known as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Parks had ancestors that were slaves and was very aware of segregation. She earned the name of the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in December of 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man as she was told to do by the bus driver. She did this with the intention of a new movement with better rights for all colored

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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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    Methods used by the civil rights movement in the 1950s The methods that were used in by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s were largely based around lobbying‚ protests and boycotting. The African American residing in the United States found these things effective and professional among their community‚ and together they worked towards changing laws‚ legislations and above all the constitution of the USA. Mass protesting was popular and one form of protesting that made a phenomenal part

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    Modern Extended responses b) Evaluate the significance of one of the following in the civil rights movement 2. The bus boycott The events and outcomes of the bus boycott are significant in assistance to the civil rights movement. It was the introduction of direct action and non violence‚ the beginning of Martin Luther’s campaign in the movement and the achievements. The boycott began on the 1st December 1955 with Rosa Parks in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ with Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat

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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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    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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    The Civil Rights Movement is often thought to begin with a tired Rosa Parks defiantly declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama. She paid the price by going to jail. Her refusal sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ which civil rights historians have in the past credited with beginning the modern civil rights movement. Others credit the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education with beginning the movement. Regardless of the event used as the starting point

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