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    must be dealt with without moderation or patience such as alluded to in the Civil Rights Movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s era. We must continue to exercise our right of peaceful protest so as to make the general public and our representatives aware of the massive‚ and growing‚ discontent and distrust of the American government. The discontent of the American people concerning the presidency‚ minority and women’s rights‚ and immigration need to be addressed

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    and taken for granted. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided equal rights to all people and enabled all races the equality they deserve. This act was signed into law on August 6‚ 1965‚ by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War‚ including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. After the U.S. Civil War ‚ the 15th Amendment prohibited states from denying a male citizen the right to vote based on race‚ color or

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    Question 1 Mary v Peter Issue Given that Mary was injured by Peters’ act‚ is he solely liable for the accident? Law * In this case‚ we have to look at the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) to determine who was negligent and in specific‚ we use s 5B(1)‚ s 5B(2) and s 5R of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW); s 5B(1) for the reasonable foreseeability test‚ s 5B(2) for determining if the standard of reasonable care has been breached and s 5R for contributory negligence. * Where both the

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    proposed a civil rights legislative protection plan for blacks in the Southern Democrats States. Democrats in Congress prevented any legislative progress. In fact‚ when Eisenhower

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    Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement was a social movement in U.S for equal rights and treatment of American- Africans in the U.S. as well as to end segregation and ban discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement during the 1950’s and 60’s was one of the most successful social movements of black Americans to gain equal rights as whites (Lawson‚ 1991). This movement was a leading challenge to segregation‚ separating blacks and whites. The cause for the civil right movement was the school

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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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    5. What contribution did Thurgood Marshall‚ Rosa Parks‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ SNCC‚ CORE and the SCLC make to civil rights? The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this‚ Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and

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    Civil Rights Movement The struggle for equality has been a battle fought for hundreds of years amongst African Americans. After the Great Migration and the developments of organizations such as NAACP‚ many African Americans gradually understood their rights as American citizens and came together to change their lives. The fight was for black citizens to enjoy the civil and political rights guaranteed to them and all other citizens by the U.S. Constitution leading to the civil right movement.

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    As the society developed‚ civil rights policies‚ which are designed to improve the living conditions of minorities‚ were made into laws; however‚ not all civil rights policies were effectively in solving inequalities. The United States had made both successful and failed civil rights approaches. In testifying the outcomes of the past civil rights movements‚ activists could better understand what should

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    The Civil Rights Movement was a massive movement in the 1950s for African Americans to obtain normal privileges and equality. The impact of the movement caused an act to be constructed called the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 1964 Civil Rights Act established it to where it was now illegal to separate people based on race and color. Making a free country was only possible with the role of the media‚ whites and blacks working together‚ and the Cold War. These all helped immensely with the conclusion

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