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    Dairy Entries Dairy Entry 1 – Explain where in the past you travelled to 28/02/24 Dear Diary. My name is Professor Sharon Jung and I am the first person in the WORLD to travel through time. I have been studying Ancient Greece for some time and I have been waiting for this moment for AGES. With all my courage‚ I took a deep breath and stepped into the time machine. 448 BCE As soon as I stepped out of the time machine‚ it was as if I was walking into a whole new world. Loud‚ busy and dirty. The streets

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    The history of Civil Rights is a very important component in the development of our nation. There is a large abundance of resources that inform us of this struggle and allow us to imagine being in the shoes of many of these leaders. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcom X‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ and Booker T. Washington are all well-known civil rights activists of the last 150 years. This is an issue that goes back even before Frederick Douglass‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ and the bloodshed of the Civil War. Rosa Parks

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    The Civil Rights Movement in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s Research Task – Report Blake Walker Year 11 Modern History Malcolm X Investigate the life and background of the individual/group Malcolm X was born on the 19th May‚ 1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ by the name of Malcolm Little. Malcolm was one of eight children to Louise Norton Little who was an attentive busy housewife. His father‚ Earl Little who was an abrupt Baptist Minister and was also a strong supporter of Marcus Garvey‚ leader of the

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    theme “Separate but equal”. Black people chose to fight for their rights in the 1955 Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement‚ but several people walked in his footsteps. People all over the United states fought for civil rights. This essay will explain how people have walked in his footsteps‚ and have chosen to make a difference in this world. In the civil rights movement‚ Martin Luther King Jr. made a

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    To what extent was policy of the federal government the most important factor inhibiting the progress of Native Americans in achieving their civil rights between 1865 and 1992? In this essay I am going to analyse whether it was the policy of the federal government which caused the progress of Native Americans to deter in achieving their civil rights between 1865 and 1992 or whether other factors like the lack of unity‚ discrimination and charitable organisation played a part in inhibiting

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    Civil Rights Act of 1964 RJDT Task 1 Mary Bristol Western Governors University A. Constructive Discharge In constructive discharge an employee resigns when they have been subjected to unlawful discrimination. The employee in this case was employed before the change in policy in shift work. Before the policy change‚ the production shifts were Monday to Friday. With the new policy the production team works a rotating shift schedule where at times the schedule rotates to work on Saturday

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    you want something. But who am I?" This is the thoughts of women in the 1960s‚ specifically Stephanie Coontz‚ a woman who just wants equal rights as her son. With the Civil Rights Movement going on‚ this sparked the imagination of hundreds of women across America that they should have equal rights. The actions of the feminist movement during the Civil Rights Movement created gender equality‚ helping improve the modern United States. The birth of every tree needs a person to plant that seed. The first

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    In social movements there are always the popular hero’s that everyone has heard about‚ then there are people who were equally as credible in the movement that were rarely heard of. When it comes to the Civil Rights movement‚ specifically the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ two of the most popular names that are discussed are Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Rosa Parks. Very seldom do you hear about Ralph Abernathy‚ Edgar Daniel Nixon‚ Fred Gray‚ Claudette Colvin‚ and JoAnn Robinson. Those people also played major

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    Important Civil Rights‚ Concepts‚ Events‚ and People African American Rights: 1.     Executive Order 9981 (Truman) – July 1948 – established the equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces 2.     Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka – 1954 – series of cases involving racial segregation in public schools; Supreme Court decision:  unconstitutional 3.     Southern Christian Leadership Conference – 1957-present – originally led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ this organization was

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    thought that our civil rights are not being fully protected. Though recently people have found themselves violated of these rights‚ most recently the uptick in supposed police brutality violations‚ typically our rights are well protected by the constitution. When a public school announced that they had suspended a student for up ten days without any notice‚ the first thought on people’s minds was that he had been denied his civil rights. While much was ado about whether or not his rights had been in fact

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