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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Birmingham: Civil Rights March‚ 1963 Birmingham held a key role in the movement because of a number of reasons: whether it was through the activities of Bull Connor or the bombed church which killed four school girls‚ or the activity of the Ku Klux Klan which also had a stronghold in the Alabama capital which would have clashed with the strong in number black population. In 1963 Martin Luther King organised a civil rights march in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Six years after the Montgomery decision‚ this city
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Rosa Park’s refusal to give her seat to a white male has also played a significant role in the shaping of the Africa American culture with dealing with segregation and where the African American people are today. “On December 1‚ 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider‚ thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites. When she was jailed‚ a black community boycott of the city’s buses began. The boycott
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Gandhi. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957‚ serving as its first president. With the SCLC‚ he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany‚ Georgia‚ and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham‚ Alabama.
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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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chairman in the Democratic Socialists of America Martin Luther King Jr. - Leader of many boycotts and peace marches Montgomery Bus Boycotts 1955‚ founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ winner of Nobel Peace Prize through non-violence movements‚ only African American with his own official day John Lewis – lead numerous marches for equality (particularly Selma to Montgomery)‚ founded Mississippi Freedom Schools‚ Original Freedom Rider Malcolm X – Muslim‚ founder of Muslim Mosque Inc. (avocation
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to Gandhi) in that the marches would come to “disobedience” at times. For example during the marches in Alabama (which were peaceful at first) the populace came to violence through police instigation on occasions such as “Bloody Sunday” (“Selma to Montgomery March”). These instances show that although beginning with non-violent intentions King’s “civil disobedience” did have negative impacts‚ however over all it had the positive effect of repealing segregation in the states. Lastly and the least recent
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in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism.[1] A Baptist minister‚ King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957‚ serving as its first president. With the SCLC‚ King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany‚ Georgia in 1962‚ and organized nonviolent protests
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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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The people of the Civil Rights Movement are the people that I admire most. I admire them for their courage‚ their tenacity‚ patience‚ peacefulness and their relentless quest for equal treatment. From these individuals I learned that one person can make a difference‚ one person can start a revolution and make a change. From their leadership I have learned that you must stand up (or sit down) for what you believe to be right. At the forefront of this movement was Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. What I
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