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    Music is Food for Soul

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    Writing: What’s your favorite type of music? How does affect the way you dress and speak? I’m a big lover of music. I listen to music all day and all night. Music is my life. I can remember the lyrics of most of the songs I listen to. I respect taste and I can stand all types of music. Although whatever song sounds good to my ears it’s fine with me‚ my favorite type is Rock and Dance music. I like Rock because it makes me sing it. Most of Rock songs have nice beats deep-meaning

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    Martin Luther King Jr.“Montgomery Bus Boycott” I believe the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ is one of the most significant events‚ resulting in a change in the Civil Rights Movements. It was the first mass protest and greatly influenced laws regarding segregation on busses‚ changing transportation in the south‚ and across the U.S. Martin Luther King shared the philosophy of Gandhi for non-violent‚ passive‚ techniques for social protest. He visited Gandhi‚ and believed in

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    Lyndon B. Johnson and the civil rights movement My figure is Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in 1908 and died in Texas in 1973. He was a U.S. vise president in 1960 for President John F. Kennedy‚ and then he became our 36th president in 1963‚ when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Johnson initiated the “Great Society” social service programs. After Pearl Harbor‚ President Roosevelt helped Lyndon win a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander. He flew on mission and was

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    One of the most important historical figures in world history was Martin Luther King Jr‚ the voice of the famed Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century‚ because of his efforts to unify people from all ethnic backgrounds and walks of life in hopes to integrate American society and bring an end to racial unjustness against blacks. Martin‚ born January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta‚ spent his early childhood on the streets of Sweet Auburn‚ a neighborhood that was home to some of the most affluent and prosperous

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    Blues Music | Influences on Civil Rights in the United States | Addy Phillips | Eddie James “Son” House‚ Jr.‚ an American blues singer and guitarist once stated‚ "People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing‚ you know‚ just hollerin’‚ but we made up our songs about things that was happening to us at the time‚ and I think that’s where the blues started (Cohn‚ 1993).” House‚ living through

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    Defense was formed. The Black Panther Party took a different approach to fighting for their rights‚ which caused many to question their legitimacy. Carrying firearms and not being devoted to non-violence were a couple aspects that separated them from all other groups at the time. The Black Panther Party played a critical role for the development of African American rights during the civil rights movement. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 in Oakland‚ California

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    in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr.‚ King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. King participated in and led marches for the right to vote‚ desegregation‚ labor rights‚ and other civil rights. He oversaw

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    B. Johnson was a key figure in a crucial time in American politics and civil rights movement. He was a liberal who had grown up poor in the state of Texas and this translated well with the American people. Furthermore‚ Johnson early childhood was a prelude to be his greatest ideals that defined his administration and dreams of the Great Society (Germany‚ 2009). President Johnson was in the forefront of social justice but did not see justice as just a race issue; he saw it as a class issue that he

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    demonstrations for civil rights from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 was Martin Luther King Jr. King relied heavily on both his Christian faith and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi‚ in his approach to civil rights. His non-violent movement included Americans from all walks of life. King used the power of words to achieve his goals‚ other civil rights leaders used "the end justifies the means" including violence. He accomplished a great deal in the thirteen years he worked for civil rights and equality

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    the greatest American Civil Rights leaders of the 1960s‚ he lost his life trying to better the lives of African-American people. King came from a middle-class family; both his father and maternal grandfather were baptist preachers in the south. He attended Boston University with his doctorate degree in 1955. He eventually became fed up with the segregation and violence towards African-American’s in the south‚ therefore he became a huge part of leading the Civil Right’s movement. Martin Luther king

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