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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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    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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    live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools‚ do you ever wonder how the racial segregation started and why people nonviolent boycott and why the civil rights had to be made. How the racial segregation started this was changed several decades later with three amendments in 1870 it gave black people the same voting rights as white people ‚ In the late 1940s and early 1950s lawyers for the national association for the advancement for color people . They culminated in brown vs board

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    What were some of the successes and limitations of the Civil Rights Movement? • Changing subsistence technology: The ongoing industrialization and development of the society as a whole—the south particularly—weakened the Jim Crow‚ rigid competitive system of minority-group control and segregation. • An era of prosperity: After World War II‚ the United States showed a period of prosperity that lasted into the 1960’s. This was important because it reduced the intensity of intergroup competition. •

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    This essay is about hippie movement‚ which consist of “hippie chic”‚ “trippy hippie”‚ “ethnic hippie”‚ “fantasy hippie”‚ “retro hippie” and “craft hippie” that was popular in 20th century‚ developed in 1960s in United States and then had been spread around the world. Also‚ in this essay will be explained things like how the trend influenced economic‚ cultural and technological spheres at that time and how it impacts on today’s fashion. The term “hippie” came from “Hipster”‚ hipsters are people

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    The civil rights movement was a popular movement in the 1900’s that’s goal was to acquire equal access to opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship for African Americans. The movement goes back to in the 19th century and it was really raised to attention in the 1950s and 1960s. A few people who played a big part in this movement were‚ but not limited to‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ JFK‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ Malcolm X‚ Bob Moses‚ James Chaney‚ and George C. Wallace. These people

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    Kelsey Kindell Lauren Cherneski English 102 5 September 2012 Black Arts Movement of the 1960s The history of BAM‚ the types of entertainment‚ and their effects on society has the upmost impact on history today. Due to it being the only American literary movement to advance “social engagement” as sin qua non of its aesthetic. The movement broke from the immediate past of protest and petition (civil rights) literature and dashed forward toward an alternative that initially seemed unthinkable

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    The women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s are both similar and different to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. There are many similarities between the two movements. Both women’s movement and black civil rights movement developed groups that fought for what they believed. The women’s movement developed the National Organization of Women‚ also known as NOW. The African Americans developed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee‚ also know as SNCC. They both fought for

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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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    “Embassy” to represent a displaced nation. The McMahon Liberal Government made a statement in which land rights were rejected in favour of 50-year leases to Aboriginal communities‚ the activists were against this and this was the reason that this protest started. The activists were repeatedly asked when the protest would end and they said that they would stay until Aboriginal Australians had land rights‚ which could be forever. 2. Is source 2 a primary or secondary source? Why? Source 2 is a secondary

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