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    America is remembered both as a decade of youth in revolt and a boiling point for racial tensions that had been brewing since the country’s founding. While the New Left pushed the definition of freedom beyond anything previously imagined‚ the Civil Rights Movement sought to gain for African Americans the same freedoms that had been the status quo for the nation’s white citizens for decades. The 1950s had been a decade hell-bent on various societal characteristics: conformity‚ financial success‚ and

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    The civil rights movement in the 1950s was a very controversial and important time in not only this nation’s history but in world history. Leaders from within the African American community like Malcolm X‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ and many others had been pivotal people during this time. Although there is still a fair amount of inequality and injustice between races to this day‚ it is not the equivalent of what people had to fight to achieve what they believed. Groups in the 1950s had

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    The Civil Rights Movement began to take off and take greater strides following the Second World War. Prior to the 1950s there had been decades of activity regarding racial equality in the forms of skirmishes‚ but most protests was chaotic. The movement became more organized following the war as other aspects of American culture changed too. Negroes became more organized under influential leaders‚ and civil rights groups such as the NAACP‚ CORE‚ the MFDP‚ and the SLCC gained stronger footholds.

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    There cause came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement. The term Civil Rights Movement encompasses strategies‚ groups‚ and movements in the united States contained goals to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and the 1960s was a time when African Americans first began to fight against segregation in the South leading to the nationwide battle for economic equality. The Civil Rights Movement was also a way to secure the legal

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    goal of the Civil Rights Movement‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ was to end legal segregation and to integrate society. His strategy to achieve these goals was non-violent protest. By the end of the 1960s‚ the Civil Rights Movement moved from integration to black separatism‚ and the strategy of the movement changed from non-violent methods to a militant style of protest. This change in strategy had a deep impact in the opinions and support of white people for the Civil Rights Movement. King’s

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    The welfare rights movement in the 1960s made basic income support available to more people than ever before. The decade prior to 1964 set the stage for the expansion of the pool of eligible individuals‚ but the explosion in magnitude of aid given during the movement itself allowed for substantial aid to reach those who were neediest. This substantive aid is what constitutes actual income support‚ rather than scant cash thrown at problem populations. Poor Blacks finally received the full aid they

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    The Civil Rights Movement In the early 1800s many rich Americans owned slaves. The slaves were captured from their home land of Africa. As a slave they were forced to do an abundance of manual labor on white people’s plantations for no pay‚ they were often beaten if they didn’t do as their “owners” told them to do. Many influential people fought to free African American slaves‚ these people included Abraham Lincoln‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Frederick Douglass‚ and many more. When Abraham Lincoln signed

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    Indian women back then were often discriminated and they have little power and control‚ they are trying to legalizing this rights " The Women’s Reservation Bill " ‚India Rape Law and the " Womanifesto " to help them gain more power and rights for themselves. A number of studies by humanitarian and human rights organizations‚ such as the International Committee of the Red Cross or the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Through

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    1963 changed the political temperament of the nation. The new President‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ utilizing a blend of the national state of mind and his own political shrewdness pushed Kennedy’s motivation; most notably‚ the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What’s more‚ the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had an immediate effect on the government‚ states‚ and neighborhoods. A result of the Voting Act‚ occurred on August 6‚ 1965‚ when approximately one-quarter of a million new African American voters were registered

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    this game‚ two players meet and either cooperate with each other‚ defect against each other‚ or have a mixed outcome where one defects while the other cooperates. Each player makes his choice at the same time. The name comes from the story of two prisoners‚ each asked separately to testify against the other. If they both refuse to talk (and thus cooperate with each other)‚ then both are released. If they both agree to testify (defect) against the other‚ they both will be convicted. One could testify

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