transport • CORE’s 1961 Freedom Rides – were necessary for a de facto change • September 1961 – signs enforcing segregation were removed from interstate buses/bus terminals State Transport • SCLC’s Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) led to desegregation of buses in Montgomery and the NAACP’s legal case les to the establishment that segregation on buses was illegal (de jure) • De facto change in the South was slow • Civil Rights Act (1964) was necessary to give the government
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The sixties brought incredible change. Things began to penetrate during the previous decade‚ culturally‚ only to explode during the Vietnam War. At the same time‚ technical improvements changed how people lived while music changed how people thought. The Cold War continued to wage at this point. Dwight Eisenhower became the first presidential candidate to successfully use the television medium to campaign. In 1960‚ Kennedy perfected the television medium. The Kennedy Campaign knew how to use the
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Gandhi’s non-violent tactics and advocated a program of civil disobedience that used these methods. These included protests in the form of boycotts‚ demonstrations‚ sit-ins and marches which includes the famous ‘Montgomery Bus boycott’‚ ‘The 1963 March on Washington’ and ‘Bloody Sunday: Selma 1965’‚ which increased the national consciousness of the denial of civil rights to African Americans. These protests were always public and in large numbers which forced confrontation with the authorities. African
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He was also a man of action. He took leadership in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. In 1963‚ he led the March on Washington and gave his “I Had A Dream” speech. Finally in 1965‚ he led thousand of protesters in a 50 mile walk from Selma to Montgomery‚ Alabama. Yes‚ Dr. King was a man of many talents‚ and he understand the power of one. He once said‚ “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
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Martin Luther King III‚ Dexter Scott‚ and Bernice. Martin became pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ Alabama. When he was only 25 years old‚ Martin received his Ph.D. Martin Luther King Jr. decided it was his turn to action in society. He didn’t want his children to live in a world where they weren’t treated fairly based on the color of their skin. In Montgomery a woman named Rosa Parks did not give her seat up for a white man on a bus. She was arrested and fined a tremendous
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Civil Rights Movement was Only the Start Sprouting in the 1950s and 1960s‚ the Civil Rights Movement officially picked up when the residues of racial oppression served no place in the United States. As a progressing nation‚ the United States slowly began its journey to strip discriminatory practices from its people in the areas of their military‚ education‚ workforce‚ and public domains. The leadership and tact of several presidents‚ Martin Luther King Jr‚ Rosa Parks‚ among many others‚ guided
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15‚1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Martin’s birth name is Michael Luther king Jr. after his father’s name. MLk’s mother was a schoolteacher named Alberta king and his father was a Baptist minister named Micheal Luther King. MLK’s father changed both their names Michael to Martin to honor the German Protestant Martin Luther. MLK had an older brother named Alfred Daniel Williams King. Also‚ a sister named Willie Christine King.("Martin Luther King Timeline." Martin
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not be more than three people at a time in a public gathering. This made it so big groups of people could not meet. This is when the campaign started and by 1965 in the month of February there had been over three thousand arrests due to the marches. Selma is a good example of the method of white control. In Albany and Danville the legalistic method worked. In these SCLC campaigns legal means were also used. This article showed two different aspects of control of the civil rights protest. The first
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In our present-day era‚ everyone has a phone‚ computer‚ TV‚ etc. and we use the media for everything‚ we can stay up-to-date with the conflicts that occur around the nation and world. But how was the media helpful in the past? Examples are provided by the essays‚ "In Defense of the Media" and "How the Media Helped Win World War II". If it hadn’t been for media‚ our history would be different and not for the better. Initially‚ I agree with the argument in the essay "In Defense of the Media". It
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look at the American civil rights movement‚ focusing on the role that music‚ spirituals and protest songs sang had on the pickets‚ sit-ins‚ and demonstrations of that turbulent era. Soundtrack of Revolution examines such pivotal moments such as the Montgomery bus boycott‚ the March on Washington‚ and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Through old footage and interviews‚ spirituals like "Wade in the Water" and "We Shall Not Be Moved‚" and folk songs like Phil Ochs ’ "Here ’s to the State of
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