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    place subject to their jurisdiction”. This was a big step for African Americans‚ and African Americans. However‚ they still had a long way to go to achieve equality‚ and the same rights and opportunities for all‚ in addition‚ this would cost lives‚ and a lot of hard work and effort; a difficult road to walk. The Civil Rights Movement was a series of heroic events in American history extremely important; its objectives were mainly to eliminate segregation‚ and discrimination.

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    Americans in the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s to 1960s because of frustration caused by the time consuming and ineffectiveness of peaceful non-violence. After the initial hype of non-violence during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycotts‚ non-violence eventually lost its influence as it was not yielding the results the African-Americans had hoped for. In addition to this‚ non-violence was met with police brutality and violence‚ making it dangerous to be involved in Civil Rights Movements and discouraging

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    Blues Music | Influences on Civil Rights in the United States | Addy Phillips | Eddie James “Son” House‚ Jr.‚ an American blues singer and guitarist once stated‚ "People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing‚ you know‚ just hollerin’‚ but we made up our songs about things that was happening to us at the time‚ and I think that’s where the blues started (Cohn‚ 1993).” House‚ living through

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    The commencement of the civil rights movement occurred in the early 1950s and 1960s. It was a movement with the goal to gain and secure legal equal rights for African Americans in the United States. African Americans struggled for social justice in the U.S for several decades. Despite the abolishment of slavery during the Civil War‚ discrimination against blacks was still alive. African Americans continued to endure racism and violence against them. This began the civil rights movement‚ the fight for

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    There cause came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement. The term Civil Rights Movement encompasses strategies‚ groups‚ and movements in the united States contained goals to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and the 1960s was a time when African Americans first began to fight against segregation in the South leading to the nationwide battle for economic equality. The Civil Rights Movement was also a way to secure the

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    Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968 What do I need to revise? Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968: Checklist 1) • • •  African Americans in the 19th Century Reconstrustion Jim Crow Plessey v ferguson Understand position of blacks. 4) • • • • • • • • • •  • • •  • • Campaigns 1960-1966 2) • • • • • •  The Early 20th Century 3) • • • • • Great Migration Great War Sense of Community The Depression NAACP Second World War Understand how these factors shape Civil Rights

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    During the 1950s‚ nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation‚ racial discrimination and various forms of oppression against people of color were rampant in the American society‚ especially in the South. Through a variety of tactics‚ ranging from nonviolent passive resistance to political lobbying‚ the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s precipitated societal change. The concerted struggle culminated in a more inclusive America‚ one in which people of all races‚ ethnicities and

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    various forms of oppression. The movement of Civil Rights created a change that would impact women‚ African Americans‚ and people who were upset with the American government. This movement changed the country and created opportunities for many. This movement in the 1960’s was the most important social and political movement of the twentieth century. The Civil Rights Movement‚ the movements of securing African Americans equal access to basic privileges and rights of a U.S. citizen. Although the movement

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    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 of education of toperia‚ Kansas

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    October 2017 Civil Liberties vs Civil Rights “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This passage drawn from the Declaration of the United States Independence encompasses two notions‚ which at first glance look like the same‚ the Civil Liberties and the Civil Rights also known as Equal Rights. The laws enacted from these rights‚ even

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