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    hand fast and danger levels in the South are steadily rising. Many are creating chaos and violence trying to prove that they have equal rights. Other people are fighting in other ways also. Like the Montgomery bus boycott a few years ago sparked by Rosa Parks‚ Martin Luther King Jr. said that he was for nonviolent resistance and many people are still following the example that he set. Some of the important things that have helped kick off the movement was also some of the events. The famous speech

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    is an exciting and affordable way to get all of those things. For a relatively low price you can pitch a tent at a State Park and “get back to nature”-- at least that’s how it used to be. Unfortunately times are rapidly changing‚ and camping‚ as it was intended‚ seems to be a thing of the past. To illustrate my point‚ I would like to paint a picture of the typical State Park camping experience. Pretend you are a vacationing middle class businessman from down state wanting to take his family on

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    Eyes on The Prize: Awakening 1954-56 This video series has been directly recommended by the Chief Examiner of HIS2P. Therefore‚ it is important to make detailed notes and to be ready to note the relevant answers down while watching the clip. The video provides a great overview for the early years of the Civil Rights Movement‚ taking you from the Brown verdict of 1954 to the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ starting in 1956. Name 5 ways that blacks were discriminated against in the 1950s: * *

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    Amber Young 7th Grade Nov. 2011 How did the Civil Rights Movement Change America? Research Paper Amber Paschal Young Henderson Middle School Thesis This paper will explain how the civil rights movement changed America. The civil rights movement occurred to ensure African American rights‚ and plummeted during the 1950s and 1960s. if this movement wasn’t successful‚ the world would be way different than it is today. The civil rights movement

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    Tatum Porter Mrs. Keithley 7th English 9 November 2 Martin Luther King Jr. “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice‚ suffering‚ and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”(brainyquotes.com) Human equality was not always a “thing” in the U.S there used to be slaves. After the Civil war‚ there was no slaves anymore after the union army won the war. this gave african americans a little

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    Southern Christian Leadership Profile (SCLC) The SCLC has been around since 1955 with the Rosa Marks incident in Montgomery AL‚ and were the SCLC helped to set up the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted just a little over one year from the date of the boycott. There have also been many other campaigns run by the SCLC which were things like the walk on Washington‚ citizenship schools so to teach African Americans to read and write so they can pass the voter registration literacy tests so they can

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    For example Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man‚ and she was arrested for violating state segregation laws. “Her actions would have an immediate effect on other members of the African American community and a lasting effect on the national

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    took many actions to achieve civil rights. One of the most famous protests was the Montgomery Bus Boycott which started because Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery and she was asked to give up her seat for a white person and when she refused‚ she got arrested (www.biography.com). After she was arrested‚ the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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    my head that she works with me‚ I work at an Montgomery ward as a semingtris. We use to call her Miss Rosa. On the radio they said that they took her to jail. I would have bailed miss Rosa out if I had the money but I didn’t miss Rosa was a Beautiful african american woman and she was very nice. A day after her arrest i heard on the radio that a Black man named Edgar Nixon had bailed Miss Rosa out of jail a

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    Park Hotel Case Summary

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    Even though the incident may have affected Park Hotel’s reputation and goodwill‚ and that may have lost profits from the guests that were in the lobby when the incident happened‚ the amount of loss that the hotel will experience as a result of damage to its goodwill is uncertain and rely more on speculative figures. In addition‚ as we previously saw‚ children cannot be held negligent for their actions the same way as adults. Despite the fact that the children were left unattended‚ Martha Merriweather’s

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