Will Flowers FYW - Tumultuous Twenties Dr. Vecchio March 22‚ 2014 The Fight for Equality The 1920s were a time of struggle‚ pride‚ fear‚ and creativity for African Americans. Following WWI‚ blacks fought for the conditions and rights that they were given while fighting in Europe. They fought through countless riots and murders to push for equality. They migrated across the country to escape the horrid conditions of the South. They created an entirely new cultural movement that spread like wild
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movement who was fired from being a teacher due to the face that she was a part of the NAACP. In South Carolina‚ teachers were obligated to fill out a questionnaire that listed all the organizations they were a part of. While many teachers were afraid to write that they are apart of the NAACP‚ Clark boldly listed it. Shortly after‚ South Carolina made it illegal for all state employees to be a part of the NAACP. Subsequently‚ Clark received a letter that her teaching contract would not be renewed
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constitute nearly 1 million of the nearly 2.3 million of the incarcerated population. And‚ according to the NAACP‚ African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites (NAACP). According to Unlocking America‚ “if African American and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates of whites‚ today’s prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50%” (NAACP). These statistics show the harsh effects of mass incarceration and how the prison system is targeting minorities
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beginning of the Civil Rights Movement‚ is the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Regarded as the movement that began the Modern Civil Rights‚ the bus boycott‚ lasting 381 days‚ was the first massive protest that defied Jim Crow. Before the boycott‚ seamstress and NAACP activist‚ Rosa Parks violated the norm that kept blacks and whites separate. Despite her fears of being arrested‚ Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. This action later caused her to get arrested. Little did the community of Southern white
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The Civil Rights movement was the national effort in the 50s and 60s to eliminate segregation to gain equal rights. Many individuals and organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities‚ including protest marches‚ boycotts‚ and refusal to abide by segregation laws. My project is on the key players of the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Martin Luther king was an American clergyman and civil-rights leader. He was born in Atlanta‚ GA January 16‚ 1929.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery Bus Boycott was started by a woman who stood up against unjust segregation by sitting down. It officially started on December 5‚1955‚ because an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. It was started by the Montgomery Improvement Association‚ who created themselves for this purpose only. It continued for 381 days‚ a little over a year‚ until bus segregation was declared unconstitutional. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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National Association of the Advancement of Color People (NAACP) led boycott‚ sit-ins‚ and demonstrations against segregated businesses. Kingencyclopedia stated (n.d) the Ku Klux Klan and other whites responded with violence against demonstrators‚ which escalated through the fall of 1963‚ when Hayling and three other NAACP members were severely beaten at a Klan rally‚ then arrested and convicted of assaulting their attackers. Therefore‚ the NAACP asks SCLC for reinforcement. King spoke at a Baptist church
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In middle diction‚ difficult words are commonly defined in context. Another example of middle diction is when Gladwell initially alludes to the NAACP‚ calling it a civil rights organization‚ then later expands by saying that “the NAACP was a centralized organization‚ run from New York according to highly formalized operating procedures” (176). The NAACP is fairly well known‚ but even so‚ Gladwell still explains his allusion. Because most literate people can easily read and understand middle diction
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The autobiography entitled Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (born Essie Mae) is the story of her life as a poor African American girl coming of age in segregated Mississippi. She grew up in Wilkerson County‚ a rural county overflowing with poverty and racism. Both of her parents spent time working on plantations until her father left the family for another woman. Her mother then obtains a job working as a maid for several white families‚ in order to support her family. Throughout her childhood
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Ferguson. During this time‚ members of the NAACP settled legal cases that sought for giving black schools the resources needed to be “separate but equal”. However‚ when the decision for Brown came through across the nation‚ civil rights activists began to shift their focus to getting rid of segregation in schools as a form fighting the discrimination against blacks. As the former president of the Arkansas NAACP‚ Daisy Bates was one of the civil rights activists who pushed for
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