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    Civil liberties are our natural rights‚ such as freedom‚ equality and pursuit of happiness‚ which the government cannot modify by making new laws or by judicial interpretation. Civil liberties are important because it helps restrain the power of the government to dictate how we behave. This ensures that our daily life is not interrupted by authoritative figures that may just try to intentionally cause harm. Civil liberties contribute to the protection of our personal choices‚ such as the right to

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    Panthers were a famous and revolutionary organization founded in California in the 1960’s‚ whose purpose was the protection and empowerment of the black race. Although most media attention focused around Martin Luther King Jr. as the leader of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960’s‚ Black Power groups like the Black Panthers‚ who disagreed with MLK’s ideology‚ also exerted influence‚ especially in poor black communities. "Founded in October 1967 in Oakland‚ California‚ by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

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    Civil Rights Throughout Reconstruction‚ southern whites felt constantly threatened by legislation providing rights for former slaves. The Civil Rights Bill of 1875 was the last rights bill passed by congress during reconstruction. It protected all Americans’ (including blacks) access to public accommodations such as trains. With the threat of complete equality constantly looming‚ violence toward former slaves gradually increased in the years following the Civil War. Beatings and murders

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    Ghettos‚ 1910-1970 After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed‚ most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives‚ also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance. Most of the migrants

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    The death toll of the Civil War is equal to the Trade Towers event occurring every Tuesday for four years. In the 1820 congress solved a new crisis by admitting Maine to the Union as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state. By 1850 the United States was evenly divided with fifteen Free states and fifteen slave states. There are many causes of the Civil War but‚ there are only three main causes. Those three causes are the different economies of the North and South‚ the political

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    expressions used to describe the human attitude and emotions. Historically‚ America’s civil rights movement was a period from World War Two until the late 1960’s where people decided to banish segregation and help minorities gain equal rights. When we look back at all the events that took place throughout this time‚ it is important to understand when this movement started. If one could think of the civil rights movement

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    had a tremendous impact on America as a whole. The war (Civil War) shaped America into what it is today. It made a change‚ a good change on the American people. Throughout this essay‚ I’m going to discuss what caused the civil war. In other words‚ there were many things that led up to the civil war‚ including‚ slavery‚ the south depending on the north‚ and the violence that was happening in both the South and the North. Therefore‚ the civil war was caused by a lot‚ mainly slavery. Slavery was one

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    James Meredith was a big civil rights activist. He integrated an all-white college and led a march. He also participated in politics. Later on his different views made other civil rights activists upset. He will always be known as a controversial hero who stood up for the rights of African Americans. James Meredith was born on June 25‚ 1933 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi. He was the seventh of thirteen children. He lived on the farm with all of his siblings and his parents. The farm he lived on was isolated

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    f. Walker’s novel explores the effects of what it means to be without equal civil or human rights. The characters live during a very racially divided time in the era of sharecropping; lynching; forced submission to the majority; and the knowledge that black people in the time of Walker’s novel were not viewed as being full human beings. With any population‚ what are the consequences of a lack of opportunity (equal rights as related to education; employment; economic class; marriage; ownership of

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    a stand for. One individual‚ goes by Cesar Chavez he stood up for civil rights and he also believed in nonviolence. Cesar was a Mexican-American farm worker that worked very hard for better water‚ restrooms‚ and better pay. When: Cesar Chavez decided to take a stand on September 8th‚ 1965. They also went on a three hundred-mile march on strike‚ the National Farm Workers Association asked Cesar if they can join the strike. In 1970 the grape‚ better pay‚ bathrooms‚ and better water strike was successfully

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