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    Civil Rights Act Team A Emancipation Proclamation-1863  Date: Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1‚ 1863.  A start to ending slavery‚ declared all slaves in the rebellious states be set free. The emancipation proclamation was limited in many ways. It only applied to the states that had seceded the union‚ which left it untouched in the border states.  Class intended for protection: Black Americans.  How the specific event affected the civil rights movement: This set fourth an amendment

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    The introduction of the Civil Rights Movement originated with the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas in 1954. This monumental case was taken to court by well known‚ distinguished lawyer Thurgood Marshall who worked closely with National Association For the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) after an incident was reported of a African American elementary school aged student‚ Linda Brown‚ was denied admission to an all-white elementary school (Tompkins). At the time‚ Kansas’ state legislation

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    THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 I was not born until after Martin Luther King had died. Born in 1968‚ I didn’t know African Americans were treated as second class citizens. The Civil Rights Movement was ongoing and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being enforced. Unlike my parents‚ aunts and grandparents‚ when I got older I only heard of the Civil Rights Movement and Act of 1964 in school‚ and did not know that I was reaping the benefits from it until I was old enough to understand. Unlike

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    Civil Rights In many parts of the South‚ blacks and whites are coming together to attempt to fulfill the agreements made in the Thirteenth‚ Fourteenth‚ and Fifteenth Amendment. These amendments give equal rights and chances to African-Americans. Despite these innovations‚ segregation is still very much alive. Many people started opposing segregation because of the Jim Crow Laws and how it supported segregation and restricted African-Americans to do certain things. One of the vital factors that

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    Ever since I studied the civil rights movement in 8th grade it has always been my favorite part of U.S. history. I do not know exactly how I came to grow so fond of it but I sometimes find myself reading books about the demonstrations that the blacks did during that time to gain their freedom in my spare time. Martin Luther King Jr. is a man that I have come to love learning about. He was just a single man but the change he was able to bring is unbelievable. It is hard to imagine that just back in

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    The Help the Jim Crow laws are mentioned a lot throughout the movie and black people are reminded that everything is separate but equal. Lynchings were finally abolished in the 1960s‚ but that didn’t stop the KKK from taking lives‚ and African Americans faced prejudices every day. The Civil Rights Movement was taking place during this time‚ which eventually lead to initiatives such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In To Kill a Mockingbird and in The Help there are

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    PRESENT CHRISTOPHER SHELLEY LONG ESSAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ___. INTRODUCTION The Civil Rights Movement was a social justice movement where Black Americans relentlessly protested against segregation and discrimination and fought for the legislature to put forth laws to protect their civil liberties. Through 1968‚ Black people experienced prejudice at the hands of white people and began boycotting‚ having sit-ins‚ non-violent protests‚ and other acts of civil disobedience to confront perpetual racism

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    Drew Thornton From the opening scene until the end of the movie the amount of racial notions that were made are mind blowing. The start of the movie a Mexican woman is rear ended by an Asian lady. Which they were both conversing with the officer remarks like “Mexicans can’t drive” and “Asians cant even see over the wheel” where made. The once that could be debated is the fact that the white woman got cold when she saw the two black guys. This could be debated because she did that as soon as she

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    HST-144 Civil Rights Movement Matrix Part I: Utilize the Topic 6 Readings as a resource to complete the "Civil Rights Movement Matrix." Be sure to cite and reference all sources. Summarize and state the significance of each of the snapshots of the Civil Rights movement. The first one is an example. This assignment uses a scoring guide. Instructors will be using the scoring guide to grade the assignment; therefore‚ students should review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become

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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on July 2‚ 1964 in Washington D.C. It ended discrimination based on race‚ color‚ and religion. Since Reconstruction‚ it is often called the most important U.S. law on civil rights. This law allowed the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. Title VI of the act banned the use of federal funds for segregated programs and schools. In 1964 only Tennessee and Texas had more than

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