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    affairs in the 1930s. Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America‚ repudiates Roosevelt Corollary‚ Dec. 1934. Hull-Litvinov Treaty‚ Nov. 1933‚ U.S. and Soviet Russia exchange ambassadors. Three Neutrality Acts‚ 1935-1937 Non-intervention in Spanish civil war‚ 1936-39 Japan invades China‚ July‚ 1937. U.S. sanctions until 1940. Road to War in Europe B. Mussolini takes power in Italy‚ 1922 V.I. Lenin takes power in Russia‚ 1917-1924 Joseph Stalin takes power in Russia‚ 1927 A. Hitler takes power

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    During the 1950’s and 1960’s the United States of America called for a change in society. This change led to the Civil Rights movement1. The Civil Rights movement was movement in which black people urged for equality with the whites. While the Civil Rights Movement was in full stride‚ Black Power came to be2. The Black Panther Party took on the idea of “Black Power” believing in a pure black society and used violence to do so3. The Black Panther Party thought that violence was the way to gain equality

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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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    All forms of life have rights‚ whether you agree or not. In terms of the Human Race‚ this has varied throughout time. Especially for people of color. These disputes continued even after slavery was put to an end. It continued on in a movement known as the Civil Rights movement. A movement that is still yet very live today. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1956 and lasted for about a year. There was an injunction from the local courts prohibiting

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    recognizable that the 1960’s is one of the greatest triumphs in American civil rights history. The 1960’s not only continued the frigidness of the Cold War‚ it bolstered voices of African American’s and their oppressed state. Centuries of their rights‚ ideas‚ and voices being suppressed or disregarded exploded during the 60’s. It was a revival in the confidence and idea of “black power” that spurred across African American people. The civil rights movement endured the common notion of white superiority and rose

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    This essay will cover points on the main events of the Civil Rights movement from 1954-65‚ and the impact that was made through them. The Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56 On the 13 November 1956 the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on Montgomery buses in the Browder v. Gale case. There had been successful mass boycott of buses by all Black citizens of Montgomery who were fuelled with intent to fight oppression and a determined onward pursuit for desegregation. In order for the Boycott to make

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    Requiring black passengers to pay fares in the front of the bus and then entered through the rear (31)‚ reserving the front 10 double seats for whites (31) and addressing black patrons with obscene language (31)‚ were some of the root causes of the Civil Rights Movement.

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    If you ask a person on the street to name all of the civil rights activists that they know‚ you would most likely get common answers--Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and maybe even John F. Kennedy. People are not as educated as they should be on the Civil Rights Movement. Georgia‚ a state whose civil rights history is long and gruesome‚ does not require that eighth graders learn about two of the movement’s most notable activists--Julian Bond and John Lewis. Students are not learning about these

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    From 1955-1964 the civil rights movement organised a series of campaigns addressing transport‚ education and the segregation of public places. The civil rights movement rarely called themselves that but simply called themselves ‘the movement’ because it indicated that the goals of the movement were much bigger than civil rights’. Martin Luther King wanted not just the death of legal segregation; he wanted the birth of a ‘beloved community’ in which black and white people were an integral part of

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    struggles were highlighted during the civil rights movement. There were significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil rights movement in the 1960’s‚ which highlighted the significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ which required equal access to public places and outlawed discrimination in employment‚ was a major victory of the black freedom struggle‚ but the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was its crowning achievement

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