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    colored skin were treated as second-hand citizens and discriminated. Marian Anderson overcame the many barriers that had been set against her and achieved her dreams against all odds. She was also one of the first people who helped trigger the civil rights movement. As a young child‚ Marian and her family faced many hardships and had money issues. “When Marian was 12‚ her father died. Marian had to go to work to help support her family. She delivered laundry that her mother took in‚ and scrubbed

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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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    Assess the effectiveness of the non-violent tactics used in the African American Civil Rights Campaign. The African Americans were very successful in the way of demonstrating non-violent tactics in the same way Gandhi had used in India in the 1920s. Martin Luther King admired this example of Gandhi’s non-violent tactics and advocated a program of civil disobedience that used these methods. These included protests in the form of boycotts‚ demonstrations‚ sit-ins and marches which includes the famous

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    slavery in 1865‚ but African Americans didn’t start gaining equal rights until 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement. The African American Civil Rights Movement aimed to eliminate all racial discrimination and segregation in America and demonstrated throughout Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of the Bees. In America‚ African Americans were not only treated unequal‚ but looked down upon to the majority of whites. The Civil Rights Movement was from 1955 all through 1968 and was carried out through

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    From 1955-1964 the civil rights movement organised a series of campaigns addressing transport‚ education and the segregation of public places. The civil rights movement rarely called themselves that but simply called themselves ‘the movement’ because it indicated that the goals of the movement were much bigger than civil rights’. Martin Luther King wanted not just the death of legal segregation; he wanted the birth of a ‘beloved community’ in which black and white people were an integral part of

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    1960s marked a slow down in the progress of the civil rights movement. Whereas‚ previously organisations such as the SCLC had played a vital part in progression‚ through non-violent techniques‚ there was no longer any such strong leadership. President Johnson attempted to overcome some of the problems in the North by proposing several bills‚ which had varying degrees of success for several reasons. Originally he had hoped that his 1965 Voting Rights Act would alleviate some of the racial tensions

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    they demonstrated their point across peacefully. Martin Luther King has proven himself as a visionary that drastically changed and revolutionized (avoid generalisations)the world. His actions have impacted the world. His strategies pushed the Civil Rights Movement to accomplish their needs. (this part is well linked) few more historical terms Body Although he (who)??? considered pursuing an academic career‚ King decided in 1954 to accept an offer to become the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist

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    Montgomery’s buses‚ that lasted 381 days‚ this was the decisive point of the beginning of Civil Rights Movement. This movement has succeeded because of the Civil Disobedience‚ the Non-violent actions‚ and how the Constitution was written. Historically " The Civil Rights Movements " refers to the effort that African-American have put to abolish discrimination. However‚ since then‚ we saw all kinds of other movement‚ that have

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    American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations. Rosa parks is a civil right activist and she isn’t going to give her seat to a white person on a segregated Montgomery on a Alabama bus. She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP she is the chapter secretary. Rosa worked closely with chapter president. Sensed she refused

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    During the civil rights movement of the 1960s‚ two prominent forms of protesting emerged. The act of nonviolent resistance‚ which was influenced by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ was a way to protest peacefully‚ without attacking groups that opposed the movement. The effects of direct action‚ which were highly influenced by activists such as Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X‚ were more violent and aggressive. Had these forms of protesting stood alone during the civil rights movement‚ America may not have

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