also known as Bloody Sunday‚ which occurred on March 7‚ 1965 in Alabama. Let’s not forget the individuals who stood up for civil rights like Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ Malcolm X‚ Gandhi‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ Mother Teresa‚ Medgar Evers‚ Fannie Lou Hamer‚ Emmett Till‚ and Stokely Carmichael; all of whom have paved the way for where we are today. These celebrations are meant to for us to remember our history of the civil rights movement and our supposed progress with racial equality in our nation
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1965-1970 for the black civil rights movement was voting rights. Even though blacks had been given the right to vote since 1964‚ they often were frightened and intimidated by the whites if they went and voted. An example of this is with Fannie Ion Hamer. When Hamer came back from registering to vote‚ she was met by the owner of the plantation where she and her husband had worked for 17 years and was told that she would either leave or withdraw her name from the voters roll. She left and that night
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Have you ever thought about how much society has changed over the years for all these different people? The diversity of Americans have had a enormous amount of change over the years‚ from voting rights to African-American and woman’s position in society African-American’s place in society has changed grandually over the years. Starting on January 1‚ 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamtion which states‚ "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within these said
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“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man‚ you take it.” was said by Malcolm Little‚ known as Malcolm X when he was introducing Fannie Lou Hamer. Malcolm Little was born on May‚19‚1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska. He helped expand the Nation of Islam by being a strong orator during the civil rights movement. He used his fiery words and actions to help African Americans become free from the discrimination from whites. He was a strong civil-rights activist
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law to bring equality to the African American people of their nation. for example referring to this issue were the underground railway what is stated in the poetry saying how the black women like Ella baker ‚ Diane Nash ‚ Septima Poinsette Clark‚ Fannie Lou hammer‚ Daisy bates And Arnold Hedgeman and Dorothy Height who fought for their rights and how these so-called Average black girls that made 19 trips through the underground
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far has the importance of Martin Luther King been exaggerated in terms of improving conditions for black people living in America during the Civil rights struggle? Even after slavery was abolished in 1865‚ black people still felt as second citizens because of the deep segregation that was going on in the southern states of America. The black people felt this way because the new Jim Crow Laws that was invented‚ laws such as black’s children and white children must be in a completely different
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Birmingham: Civil Rights March‚ 1963 Birmingham held a key role in the movement because of a number of reasons: whether it was through the activities of Bull Connor or the bombed church which killed four school girls‚ or the activity of the Ku Klux Klan which also had a stronghold in the Alabama capital which would have clashed with the strong in number black population. In 1963 Martin Luther King organised a civil rights march in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Six years after the Montgomery decision‚
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Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system‚ after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old‚ crippled‚ black slave who embodied negative stereotypes of blacks. Segregation became common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction‚ which followed the Civil War (1861-1865)
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A Report on the Significance of the Emmett Till Murder Before talking about Emmet Till and what happened to him‚ I will explain what life was like for black people in the Deep South. Places in the South of America were some of the most racist‚ if not the most racist against black people. They believed that black people shouldn’t have equal rights to white people and that they were barely people at all. They also strongly believed that all black men wanted to rape any white women they looked at
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Introduction Each year billions of dollars are spent on getting candidates of various offices of government elected. Many candidates have had tremendous success through the efforts of much needed monetary contributions to their campaign. Contributors range from unions‚ religious leaders‚ organizations such as Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD)‚ the National Rifle Association (NRA)‚ and senior citizens groups. When these groups‚ known as special interest groups‚ donate to candidate’s campaign‚
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