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    In the history of the American civil rights movement‚ two seminal figures emerge: that of the peaceful and nonviolent Martin Luther King‚ Jr‚ and the revolutionary and radical Malcolm X. From these two contrasting images‚ America did not know how exactly to classify the movement. On one hand‚ Malcolm X preached independence and a "by any means necessary" approach to achieving equality in The United States and on the other‚ King preached a nonviolent‚ disobedient philosophy similar to that of Gandhi

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    The Civil Rights Movement is often thought to begin with a tired Rosa Parks defiantly declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama. She paid the price by going to jail. Her refusal sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ which civil rights historians have in the past credited with beginning the modern civil rights movement. Others credit the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education with beginning the movement. Regardless of the event used as the starting point

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    Civil Rights DBQ In the 1960’s the movement for African American civil rights dramatically changed due strong activist‚ presidential commitments‚ and numerous protest. Every part of what helped changed the civil rights movement was a key aspect in the gaining of African American civil rights. All of these movements were composed of inspirational leaders such and Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X in which there goals were to end all injustices for not only African Americans but for

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    How far was peaceful protest responsible for the successes of the civil rights movement in the years 1955 - 1964? Peaceful protest in the years 1955 to 1964 helped the civil rights movement little by little through the use of forcing the government to implement legal change. The laws that were passed mostly ended segregation in public places such as the law passed in 1956 that banned segregation of busses. This law was a result of the Browder vs. Gayle case that revolved around Aurelia Browder who

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    Period 4 05/17/13 Civil Rights Movement The primary theme of the Civil Rights Movement was that African Americans‚ in particular‚ and minorities‚ in general were human beings. The African Americans felt no different‚ no better‚ or worse than the whites in America. As human beings‚ African Americans were called on to dire in times of war‚ called on to pay taxes‚ and called on to do various other services. The argument was that skin color was not a disability‚ that it made a person neither

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    How far has the importance of Martin Luther King’s role in the Civil Rights movement been exaggerated? In the 1950s and 60s‚ black Americans were victim to severe and brutal racist discrimination‚ particularly in the southern states‚ where segregation was “de Jure” ( by law)‚ the ‘Jim-Crow’ laws made sure that everyday facilities such as buses‚ parks and schools were segregated‚ with different services for black and white people and where black people were violently threatened to prevent them

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    The Civil Rights of 1953-964 was a social movement by African Americans to end segregation and discrimination in the United States. This social reform and movement primarily took place in the South because it was the most segregated place in the North America. The civil rights movements is such a critical time period in African-American history which leads to many significant figures and events. For example important figures such as: Ella Baker‚ James Farmer‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ John Lewis‚

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    1960’s‚ African Americans rose up and fought for what was rightfully theirs during the civil rights movement. Living in the twenty first century we see that it inhumane to strip African Americans of their human rights. But‚ sadly‚ we have neglected to see that homosexuals are in a very similar position today. Homosexuals in the United States have been fighting for their rights for years‚ but the right to be legally married is the hardest fight of them all. Marriage is a rite of passage in the United

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    In the history of the American civil rights movement‚ two seminal figures emerge: that of the peaceful and nonviolent Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ and the revolutionary and radical Malcolm X. From these two contrasting images‚ America did not know how exactly to classify the movement. On one hand‚ Malcolm X preached independence and a "by any means necessary" approach to achieving equality in America. And on the other‚ King preached a nonviolent‚ disobedient philosophy similar to that of Gandhi in the

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    The Civil Rights Movement in America And when we allow freedom to ring‚ when we let it ring from every village and hamlet‚ from every state and city‚ we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children-black men and white men‚ Jews and Gentiles‚ Catholics and Protestants-will be able to join hands and to sngn in the words of the old Negro spiritual‚ “Free at last‚ free at last; thank God almighty‚ we are free at last.

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