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    All throughout history people have faced issues with civil rights. Of the most common factors skin color plays a large role in these injustices‚ but people even suffer discrimination from their own race. This proves to be evident in today’s society more than ever before with issues of homosexuality‚ political debates‚ wealth. As humans we tend be to for the betterment of ourselves and having civil rights for everyone seems to be constantly in the way. In general people always want their opinion to

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    1964 was the year the civil rights act passed‚ it was just the beginning for African Americans. The civil rights act made amazing breakthroughs aiding the prevention of discrimination of people because of their race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ or national origin basically giving equal access to everything despite certain character traits. These rights were being enforced by the early 1970’s. But just because a law is enforced‚ does not make it the problem solver for an issue as big as racism. No law can

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    What are Civil Rights? Civil rights are the rights of citizens and social freedom. A civil right is a right or privilege that can be enforced by an individual. This means that if a person violates another’s civil rights‚ it gives the later a right to an action for injury. We have civil rights because it keeps us free from unfair treatments or discrimination. Our topic is gay rights. It is related to civil rights because they want to get married but in some states they can’t get married.In 1967 being

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    The Civil Right’s Movement did accomplish a lot and desegregated the big things‚ but there are smaller things that still persist. It succeeded legally towards racism but down to actual treatment between whites and blacks there was minor progress. Although there was legally an end to racism the Civil Rights Movement failed to create equal opportunities between white and blacks as it still has an effect to date. The Civil Rights Movement was inasmuch as it did complete its goals of getting the Civil

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    seems as if time is repeating itself because we are in the second civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Movement is a movement that was made to secure equal rights for African Americans. This applies to what’s going on today because there has been a lot of brutality on black people by white people recently. In many occasions the white person won’t get charged for the crime they committed. We are in the middle of the second civil rights movement because many black people have died at the hands of white

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    his “ I have a Dream” speech. This was during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to all the african americans to motivate them about what they were trying to do. The Civil Rights Movement was done because the black people were segregated or discriminated and they were beaten. One of the effects of the Civil Rights Movement is that now people from every race live in harmony. One of the causes of the Civil Rights Movement is that the black people were discriminated

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    the first lung transplant‚ the first woman in space‚ and the fight for African American rights it would have not changed the way people thought. All these examples

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    “A social movement is collectivity acting with some continuity to promote or resist a change in the society or group of which it is a part” (Turner & Killian) We hear about Civil Rights movements and their impact on the overall goal for African Americans. What it meant to a community; How it impacted the South; How it impacted the North; etc. Yet‚ what I find to be the most important type of movement isn’t the movements that catch the eye of the media‚ but what grasps the attention of the Government

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    during‚ and after the Civil Rights Movement . A lot of people had to make sacrifices in their lives to be a part of the Movement. People became unemployed‚ were abused countless times by the police‚ southerners‚ and people who disagree with segregation. They also sacrificed their education‚ children (teenagers and college students)‚ and their right to defend themselves. Using sources‚ this essay will show the numerous sacrifices and challenges that were made by Civil Rights activists‚ and the successes

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    the Civil Rights Act and required people to speak up about what they feel is wrong and right: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” —Martin Luther King‚ Jr. The Civil Rights Act ended many things such as segregation and discrimination on the basis of race‚ gender‚ religion‚ among other things. Furthermore‚ the a civil Rights Act was influenced by many in their own ways people such as: Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and even John F. Kennedy. The Civil Rights

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