(ALL ABOUT MUSIC: The African American Language) Thesis: Music was a means‚ a leverage‚ a shrewd resort; it was for the real Negro who was‚ beneath the melody‚ thinking‚ and planning and advancing. “Communication in song was certainly safer than direct talk” and “slaves could further disguise their message by singing about freedom” (Russell Ames). To understand‚ what was called spirituals‚ a person must understand the language of slaves who song them. The language established by enslaves
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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 were
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Civil Rights (The Truman‚ Eisenhower‚ Kennedy‚ and Johnson Years) Civil Right in the Truman Era • Post-war prosperity‚ Cold War rhetoric led to increasing assertiveness of African-Americans • Truman began to address civil rights issues‚ shortly after the war o 1946 - appoints commission to propose civil rights legislation o 1948 - Proposes civil rights legislations Called for permanent Federal civil rights commission Called for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee to end
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Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were important figures in Civil Rights and race equality‚ and both were active in the same time era. However‚ despite advocating for the same idea (rights for African Americans)‚ Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had very different ideas on how exactly they would try to establish their ideas and expand their base of followers/supporters. This paper is to define their differences and similarities‚ while providing some background into both Malcolm X’s and
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Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system‚ after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old‚ crippled‚ black slave who embodied negative stereotypes of blacks. Segregation became common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction‚ which followed the Civil War (1861-1865)
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that Johnson wanted to help the situation by quoting that “Johnson continued that discrimination was morally wrong and wanted a change.” To continue this point‚ “President Johnson provided a federal troop escort so the marchers could finish their march” (source 12). According to own research (www.history.co.uk – History
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Nathan Grass Ms. Grace English 9/Period 2 18 October 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. One name changed the face of America. One man had an ambitious dream. That man was Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that one person could change everything. MLK Jr. was the most important man in the Civil Rights movement. He experienced racism at a very young age and later was the biggest contributor to the Civil Rights movement until his life came to an abrupt end. Martin Luther King
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transport • CORE’s 1961 Freedom Rides – were necessary for a de facto change • September 1961 – signs enforcing segregation were removed from interstate buses/bus terminals State Transport • SCLC’s Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) led to desegregation of buses in Montgomery and the NAACP’s legal case les to the establishment that segregation on buses was illegal (de jure) • De facto change in the South was slow • Civil Rights Act (1964) was necessary to give the government
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1. Alfred Smith was attacked/smeared in the 1928 election because of religious differences (Catholic) and the prosperity of the ‘20s the Republicans took credit of. 2. Stock prices first began to decline in 1929 because less people bought stocks and there was overproduction. 3. Before FDR‚ when a bank failed‚ bank depositors were forced to close due to bankruptcy. 4. Economist believed the main reason for the Great Depression was overproduction‚ low wages‚ and high tariffs. 5. FDR’s
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of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia‚ Mississippi‚ gained national attention‚ along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally‚ the unprovoked attack on March 7‚ 1965‚ by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma‚ Alabama‚ en route to the state capitol in Montgomery‚ persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators’ resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting
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