rights movement and how effective peaceful protest was. Representation 3E is not complete since it only mentions the march on Selma and has cut most of the civil right movement which is not mentioned. No mention of the voting rights act which was a direct result of the Selma march. This source does not explain the split in civil rights movement and that many condemned the march including the SNCC which left “a string of embittered cities” and tensions in towns that it has passed. Rep 3E is very
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Kennedy’s Civil Rights bill. Birmingham riots. March on Washington. 1964-8 Annual riots in black ghettos. 1964 Civil Rights Act pushed through by LBJ. Kennedy Democrat 1961-63 1965 Selma voter registration crisis: Selma to Montgomery march. Voting Rights Act. Watts (black Los Angeles ghetto) riots. Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam and is killed by Nation of Islam gunmen. 1966 Stokely Carmichael calls for ‘black power’ on the Meredith March. (Mississippi). King focuses on ghettos in the
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How did the civil rights movement develop? The Civil Rights Movement in the United States took place from the 1950’s-1970. It was a non-violent campaign led by the black and coloured people in order to attain equality and the right to vote. After the civil war of America 3 constitutions were passed 13‚ 14 and 15th amendment. These laws outlined that blacks were freed people and black men could vote. However many whites resisted
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figure head publicly known on a national scale. This came to be evident from 1955 onwards when he represented the Montgomery bus boycott. However prior to this boycott in 1955‚ in 1954 he began to work as a pastor in Montgomery. King had a very likeable personality and rarely missed the opportunity to publicly speak in front of large crowds. He even flagged a marathon from Selma to Montgomery just to address a crowd regarding the civil rights movement and his feelings representative of many others. It
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Americans from exercising the right to vote (Edmunds‚ 163). As peaceful demonstrators refused leave and began to pray at the Edmund Pettus Bridge‚ state officers struck the protestors and used tear gas. Violent reactions to peaceful protest like seen in Selma and other events like Little Rock and Birmingham were seen on television all over the country and gained support for the cause. These events and images reached the White House where President Eisenhower‚ President Kennedy‚ and President L. B. Johnson
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Alexander Hamilton was a more influential American than the other choices. That’s not to say that the other options are not influential. However Alexander Hamilton is simply the most influential of the handful. To start off with we have Henry Ford. Technically Ford never invented the assembly line‚ but he was a sponsor who used it to the point where it became important. A car was a luxury for America before Ford came along‚ his company soon started to develop cars the average middle-class American
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be oppressed‚ so they give the public information about what is going on in the US to make the public relize what is going on in the US. Second‚ it also says "Cameras were rolling on a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery‚ held to protest the denial of African-American citizens’ right to vote. The march ended in police brutality against
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one of the most historical days in history‚ the speech “If I had a Dream”‚ by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ followed by an enormously crowd to Washington D.C... However‚ the movement didn’t peak until‚ March of 1965‚ which contained the Selma to Montgomery Marches. M.L.K led the march from Alabama‚ to Montgomery‚ for the registration of African-American voters. They finally achieved their goal‚ along with the awareness of the struggles the
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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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highlighted the brutality of segregationists and garnered sympathy from the broader public. The Birmingham campaign of 1963 is a prime example of how activists used nonviolent direct action to draw national attention to their cause. As Lewis recounts in "March: Book Two‚" the campaign involved a series of peaceful protests and sit-ins aimed at desegregating public facilities in Birmingham‚
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