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    1950’s and continuing through the late 1960’s‚ the African Civil Rights Movement made historic strides regarding the equality of black and white citizens. As any such groundbreaking movement‚ there were moments of both peace and violence‚ from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the New York City Race Riots of 1964. Perhaps the most influential and well-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement was Martin Luther King Jr. He lobbied for equal rights for African Americans‚ while also promoting peaceful protests

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    The Civil Rights Movement was the main reason that transformed the attitudes of the majority of American citizens. It realise that all Americans were entitled to pursue the American dream. Blacks didn’t have legal equality and many women didn’t work outside of their home. Most people obeyed and trusted the government. By the early 1970s‚ none of it was true anymore. By the late 1960s‚ African Americans had to live under a system of segregation. They were to stay away from the white like the suburbs

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    the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King was a Baptist Minister and a social activist. He was born on January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia at their family home. He was the second child of Martin Luther King‚ Sr. and Alberta Williams King (The King Center‚ About Dr. King). Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott King‚ together they had four children. Dr. King’s goal as an activist was to try and achieve equality for African Americans in a nonviolent way. He was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement

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    Anna Jardot Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Writing Assignment Affirmative action is the practice of improving educational and job opportunities of groups of people who have been treated unfairly in the past due to their race‚ sex‚ etc. In the US the effort was to improve the educational and employment opportunities of women and men of minority. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ affirmative action was designed to counteract the lingering effects of generations of past discrimination

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    association was founded by a white man from Kentucky‚ William English Walling‚ who saw a ‘need for a nation-wide effort to combat evil’. The NAACP philosophy was originally based on 18th Century liberalism as well as the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; because of this‚ the NAACP strongly believed that non-violent protests and legitimate legal actions were the best way to achieve equal rights for all Americans. Throughout the Civil Rights Movements‚ the NAACP took a strictly passive-aggressive

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    Douglass‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Sojourner Truth‚ Our president Abraham Lincoln‚ Jackie Robinson‚ post World War II litigation efforts of Thurgood Marshall‚ and lastly in the language of Martin Luther King Jr ‚ since the Civil War for anything to really change towards human rightscivil rights at that. "The Declaration of Independence has always represented a “declaration of intent rather than of reality‚” the unfulfilled quest for equality will test the nation’s best efforts for generations to come"

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    Johnson was born on January 1st‚ 1956. In Richmond‚ Indiana. Gregory Johnson’s father spent majority of his childhood in jail. So gregory went without a father figure for a while. Gregory Lee Johnson’s mother was a big supporter of the American Civil Rights

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    The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s The civil rights movement in the — USA had many significant events. I will describe and evaluate four such events: Montgomery bus boycott 1955‚ little rock Arkansas 1951‚ Greensboro North Carolina sits INS 1960‚ Selma to Montgomery march 1963 Rosa parks was on the bus on her way home from a day at work as a seamstress at a department store ‚she sat in the fifth row which was the first row for the black people All the buses were segregated and

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    United States. It wasn’t until the 1950s when the civil rights movement truly took off and change began to happen. The civil rights movement was ran by the minority groups demanding for an end to racial segregation. During this time the separate but equal doctrine was in play‚ which meant the whites and colored both had equal facilities. Although they were considered “equal”‚ the minorities were never truly equal because they were forced to be separate from whites. In many states blacks were treated violently

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    as Vice-President to JFK. During his campaign with JFK he was also campaigning for a 3rd term in senate which he resigned from it after becoming president. On November 22 1963‚ Linden B.

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