unalienable right to free speech. The American Republic was conceived in revolution and resistance to legislature. A plethora of the original framers of the Constitution were soldiers and essential leaders of the American Revolution; these citizens fought for our new Republic during the war and absorbed its political ideology. The Declaration of Independence‚ brought to life by Thomas Jefferson‚ said that the document was simply an "expansion of the American mind." He wrote that it is the "Right of the
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dominating ideal of white supremacy still engulfed the South after the Civil War and Jim Crow laws acted as the embodiment of these racist ideals. To keep segregation and the separation of races in all matters of life‚ such as transportation‚ housing‚ and education also kept blacks economically and socially suppressed so that southern black resistance was nearly impossible. Combine this with Republicans dropping civil rights from their platform after the 1870’s‚ and blacks were left in a police
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satire‚ irony‚ and occasionally blasphemy to showcase the current state of their culture. The Civil Rights Movement was also occurring during this time and the social injustice is reflected in the music. Also‚ the feminist movement and sexual revolution challenge gender mores and also raised awareness about the inequalities that women face every day‚ including in the work place. As a result of the feminist movement‚ more women began to participate in symphonies and other public music organizations. Rock
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expanded his Civil Rights Movement into larger cities‚ focusing on economic justice and international peace. He led several campaigns in Chicago‚ Illinois towards economic help in the large city. He was met with much criticism from younger black power leaders such as Stokely Carmichael. In the eyes of many of the young urban African Americans‚ King was passive and noneffective. To address the criticism‚ King made a link between poverty and discrimination. He spread the civil rights efforts towards
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Successful Nonviolent civil disobedience was a successful tactic for advancing the civil rights movement. In the South of the United States during the 1950s‚ black people had little legal rights. They were the victims of systematic‚ degrading discrimination and they could do nothing to get recourse. Unfortunately‚ most whites stuck to the traditional ways of segregation and discrimination because they believed that any relaxation of the discriminatory social code would lead to violence by blacks
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Various events have shaped the course of history to date‚ advocating for civil rights‚ freedom‚ and equality. Most of them were led by groups such as the civil rights movement while others were impacted by single individuals. Even though I wasn’t alive during that time‚ an event that I would want to witness is the ‘I have a dream speech’ delivered by Martin Luther King. If I was asked to choose an event that I would like to witness‚ I would choose the speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on
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Little did they know there was a movement in the making‚ a strategic plan of a nonviolent assaults on segregation. The Montgomery bus boycott was phase one of the civil rights movement. Being familiar with the story of Rosa Parks‚ she refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Thus African Americans refused to ride the bus for 381 days until Supreme court ruled segregation of transportation to be unconstitutional. This boycott launched the nonviolent crusade to end segregation‚ the Civil Rights
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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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visible facets of black culture to take center stage during the Civil Rights campaign was its music. Spirituals and popular gospel hymns were refashioned into rallying cries and calls to action....during organizational meetings and rallies these modified church songs were sung to encourage‚ embolden‚ and unite African-Americans‚ in their struggle for freedom and equality.” (Johnson 2008‚ p. 133-134). The African-American Civil Rights Movement was a goal to end racial segregation and prejudice against
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the war‚ there was the Watts Riots‚ the North East blackout and before just the year before that‚ on July 2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However‚ the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement‚ to sum up was when blacks marched out to Edmund Pettus Bridge‚ when they got there they were greeted by a wall
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