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Even after 1961‚ people still continued to campaign for equal rights and freedom for the black Americans. At that time‚ the equal Civil Right system drawn attention to the new president‚ John F Kennedy and on 11 June 1961‚ he declared to support the black Americans for their equal rights. People concluded that the only way that they can win their freedom was to empower ordinary people‚ thus they also started to campaign for the proposed civil rights bill and voting right. Martin Luther King played
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The women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s are both similar and different to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. There are many similarities between the two movements. Both women’s movement and black civil rights movement developed groups that fought for what they believed. The women’s movement developed the National Organization of Women‚ also known as NOW. The African Americans developed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee‚ also know as SNCC. They both fought for
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discrimination. While Martin Luther King provoked a significant change in the movement in the South‚ a Black Muslim man known as Malcolm X had a different approach to attaining civil liberties for Black Americans in the North. Malcolm X‚ along with Stokely Carmichael‚ proposed the idea of Black nationalism to encourage Black individuals to engage in self-defense against the injustices at the hands of
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What school did the Greensboro Four attend? The school they attended was North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. 12. What youth-based organization was led by Robert Moses‚ Diane Nash‚ John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael and what role did it play in the Civil Rights Movement? The youth organization was The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee‚ (SNCC) and it played a significant role in the Freedom Rides in 1961 which challenged segregation in transportation
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Stokely Carmichael provides a good example in “What We Want”‚ Carmichael shows what he hopes the African American people can be a part of‚ the community as a whole. He shows his idealism in his hope that white and black Americans show supporting for civil rights by not doing business with
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Traditional non violent protest adherents aligned with MLK and the younger more militant groups that seemed to gravitate toward Stokely Carmichael‚ SNCC leader who coined the phrase Black Power. Urged by MLK to soften the rhetoric of black power‚ fearing it would confuse their allies and add to an already prejudiced white rejection of full legal status for blacks‚ Carmichael rejected MLK’s suggestions. Further‚ Roy Wilkins of the NAACP labeled the Black Power movement as “the father of hatred and the
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"Black Power" was seen as a way of resurrecting "Black Pride" and African-American culture. Carmichael said in 1966: "We have to do what every group in this country did - we gotta take over the community where we outnumber people so we can have decent jobs." For years‚ the movement’s leaders said‚ blacks had been trying to aspire to white ideals of what they should be. Now it was time for blacks to set their own agenda‚ putting their needs and aspirations first. ~ http://www.historylearningsite
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acknowledged instead of depending on legislative alterations to “fix”the situations Black Americans encounter. Depending on legislative changes to benefit the racial climate in America never prevented local authorities from abusing their power. Stokely Carmichael said during his Black Power Speech at the University of California Berkeley in October of
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Within society there is a carefully molded hierarchy. It is like the Eastern civilization caste system‚ though not as uniform and strict. I was born into the lower middle class and by the ideology of the caste system‚ it is the only class I will be a part of. In America this idea is prominent. Poverty is a cycle. It’s hard to escape from it and to do better in life‚ but the same is said of the middle class.The rich though‚ will stay rich. My life experiences have rejected the average lifestyle society
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