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    society. During the Civil Rights movement‚ Rosa Parks was a great example of someone who refused to accept the law and‚ because of it‚ laid a path to change. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man‚ as required by segregation laws in Alabama. Her actions resulted in a court case against racial laws that went all the way up to the Supreme Court. When the Court ruled bus segregation was unconstitutional‚ it was a turning point in the Civil Rights movement. There was no violence

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    Lyndon B. Johnson and the civil rights movement My figure is Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in 1908 and died in Texas in 1973. He was a U.S. vise president in 1960 for President John F. Kennedy‚ and then he became our 36th president in 1963‚ when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Johnson initiated the “Great Society” social service programs. After Pearl Harbor‚ President Roosevelt helped Lyndon win a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander. He flew on mission and was

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    The movement was not started by blacks alone‚ but also by whites who wanted to end the generation after generation of violence amongst the races. In order to bring the two races closer together the Civil Rights Movement held non violent protest first to promote nonviolence among the races. This idea was first introduced through one of the movements’ most famous leaders Dr. Martin Luther King and the teaching he received from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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    Music became the dominant in the United States during the 1940 and 1950. It was quite radical in fact; this is the decade that began rock and roll‚ the civil rights movement‚ better family living. In the forties and fifties were looked at more as a state of mind‚ a way of living rather than just another decade or time era in history. It was more peaceful during them times; the economy was doing better than it had been before. Teenagers were having more fun than ever. Rock n’ roll was making head

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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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    Civil Rights Past and Present In 1776‚ the Founding Fathers outlined the framework on which this new country should be built on‚ freedom and the idea that all men are created equal. However at the time the men being referred to were white land owners. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln redefined the definition of all men referred to in the Declaration of Independence to include the slaves. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. is addressing the preverbal cashing of the check that Lincoln wrote 100 years before.

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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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    Integration is important because everyone should be treated equally no matter what color they are. There were so many people trying to stop all of this from happening during the Civil Rights Movement. Some were even assassinated for standing up for what they believed in. Many people took part in marches‚ bus boycotts to protest segregation. For example people took part in the bus boycotts because Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus Montgomery‚ Alabama. People got angry

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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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