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    of the many positive changes that were a result of all the hard work of the previous years montgomery bus boycott 1955-56 MIA Browder v. Gayle 1956 desegregation on buses 1956 Little rock 1957 Greenboro sit-ins 1960 SNCC Albany movement 1961-1962 James Meredith uni Mississipi 1962 Freedom Rides of 1961 birmingham campaign 1963 march on washington 1963 mississipi freedom summer 1964 Selma campaign 1965 One of the most significant event that marred this campaign but has nonetheless

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    The Battle to Become Civil African Americans and the immense struggle to become civil. Which led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a enormous part in American history. During this time a vast number of African Americans were determined to get the rights that they believed they deserved as humans. This did not come effortlessly because obtaining rights when you have none is a very hard. It took many years of struggling to get their rights‚ they soon obtained the rights that they deserved‚ but not

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    Nathan Bedford Forrest is memorialized as one of the greatest cavalrymen of the American Civil War‚ and arguably one of the most controversial. He was born in Tennessee in 1812 to a broken family. Forrest worked as a cotton planter and slave trader‚ in which he largely profited. In the early years of the war he pledged his allegiance to the Confederate States‚ and enlisted as a Private in the army. Soon Forrest rose to Lieutenant General‚ despite having no prior military training. Forrest served

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    facilities for blacks and whites (Sidlow & Henschen‚ 101). The court then sentenced blacks to more than half a century of social inequality. Along with this certain act‚ came many more prominent movements that shaped the world today. The Selma to Montgomery March‚ for example‚ was a movement that both MLK Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC) helped organized after the renowned Rosa Parks refused to move to the “colored section”. After being arrested and fined‚ many African Americans

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    AS History – Unit 1 A World Divided: Communism and Democracy in the 20th Century Revision Guide Edition 5: January 2010 Contents Page: Content: | Page: | How to use this book | 3 | How to answer the questions | 4 | Writing Frames | 5 | How your essays will be marked | 11 | Previous Exam Questions and predicted questions | 12 | Unit 1: Signs of change by 1955 | 14 | Unit 2: Martin Luther King and Peaceful Protest | 23 | Unit 3: Black Power and the use of Violence

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    Within the context of the period 1865-1968‚ how significant was the role played by Martin Luther King in improving the position of African Americans? INTRODUCTION “When the definitive history of the American civil rights movement is eventually written‚ one of the central themes will be that Martin Luther King‚ Jr. ranks among the greatest political strategists of all time.’’ This is the viewpoint of James A.Colaiaco and he argues that Martin Luther King played the most significant role in the struggle

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    African American rights. It would be more accurate to give praise to many campaigns and people between the times of 1945 and 1965 that would go on to help shape and improve the position of African Americans. Campaigns and cases such as the Brown case‚ Montgomery bus boycott‚ little rock campaign‚ and many more helped to improve the position of African Americans between 1945 and 1965. President Truman as a young man was undoubtedly a racist. But after hearing about stories of black men fighting in the

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    Tuskegee Institute to help “train African Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of his race” (Booker T. Washington - Tuskegee Institute. (2017‚ February 22). In December of 1955‚ a young African American woman in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. That young woman was Rosa Parks. Because segregation had been legalized‚ she was arrested for her actions that day (An Act of Courage‚ The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks.

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    Immediately following the success of the Montgomery Boycott‚ King‚ along with his fellow clergyman‚ Ralph Abernathy‚ founded the SCLC and set to work organizing a number of protests and marches. With the understanding that a point had to be made publicly‚ King targeted the most segregated city in the South‚ Birmingham‚ Alabama. The Birmingham campaign was nonviolent‚ with the intent to incite. King planned out protest marches and sit-ins‚ in a strategic master plan to break laws he felt unjust‚ in

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    Jan 2011 9 To what extent was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) responsible for the successes of the civil rights campaign in the years 1945–57? Indicative content The question is focused on the success of the civil rights movement in the years 1945-57‚ and the significance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in contributing to that success. In considering the given factor‚ candidates may refer to the fact that the

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