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    " The citizens of the United Sates of America have the right to protest enshrined to them in the 1st Amendment of our great constitution. Throughout history many have felt that the government has not had the peoples best interest in mind and have united peacefully to bring about change. These movements include the great Boston Tea Party‚ the Women’s Suffrage Movement‚ and never could we forget Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.`s Civil Rights Movement. The Boson Tea Party‚ a mass protest on December 16th

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    people from all over the world to connect‚ it allows people to share different ideas and promote causes that they may not of heard of before. Social media has become a platform for activism. By sharing‚ liking‚ and tweeting the people of the world have become activist of all sorts of causes. Often this sort of activism has been compared to the glorious Civil Rights Movement. Recent debate has quite different views on if activism through social media is as influential in publicizing far-reaching causes

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    The Modern Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to the arrival of blacks in America as slaves in 1619‚ through the questions of slavery pondered (and ultimately avoided) by the Founding Fathers‚ into the increasing rancor of the 19th century and the abolitionist movements and the rise to prominence of such black luminaries as Frederick Douglass. The questions of civil rights was obviously a profound aspect of the Civil War‚ and an animating aspect of Reconstruction. In the earlier twentieth century

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    The Civil Right Movement was a period of time from the mid 1860s and to the late 1960s where people fought for equal rights for African Americans. The Civil Rights Movement was inspired by many people such as Mahatma Gandhi‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Martin Luther King just to name a few. The Civil Rights Movement was a series of non-violent protests and boycotting for African Americans to show that they deserve equal rights as any other American. The Civil Rights Movement all started December 5th ‚

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    segregate relations between whites and blacks‚ the Civil Rights Movement was sparked. Many courageous and angered activists partook in acts of civil disobedience to help their voices be heard‚ like Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man‚ or Martin Luther King Jr. speaking of his opinion on racism in his “I Have a Dream” speech. Similarly

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    Whether we examine the African American Civil Rights Movement‚ the LGBT movement‚ or the Women’s Rights Movement‚ each was an effort staged and operated by many which led to the largest benefits being recognized on the individual level. The major component of these movements‚ however‚ is not the process which the groups fight for their rights‚ or the law’s judgment that decides that they are indeed entitled to what they requested. It is the recognition of rights of the people by the people that leads

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    Civil rights Movement 1954-1968 Mass protest against racial discrimination in the Southern United States that came to a national prominence during the mid- 1950’s. This movement was the roots of centuries long effort of African american slaves and descendents to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery. The civil rights passed through the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The civil rights movement was a non-violent protest and lead to the Reconstruction

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    fighting to get the equality they knew they deserved. Movements‚ rebellions‚ and revolutions resulted‚ all in an attempt to gain back these rights. Would these actions taken have any effect on the future? Today‚ racism is still evident in society‚ but it is not the same as

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    Civil Rights Movement: 1890-1900 1890: The state of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage black voters. 1895: Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Exposition speech‚ which accepts segregation of the races. 1896: The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate but equal treatment of the races is constitutional. 1900-1910 1900-1915: Over one thousand blacks are lynched in the states of the former Confederacy. 1905: The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. du

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    there was a movement in the making‚ a strategic plan of a nonviolent assaults on segregation. The Montgomery bus boycott was phase one of the civil rights movement. Being familiar with the story of Rosa Parks‚ she refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Thus African Americans refused to ride the bus for 381 days until Supreme court ruled segregation of transportation to be unconstitutional. This boycott launched the nonviolent crusade to end segregation‚ the Civil Rights Movement. In 1960

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