In order to have a successful movement like the Chicano Movement, a group must have an ardent leader. ... Hayes – Bautista, argues that the Chicano Movement is no longer a movement instead it has become inactive due to the accomplishments of the movement. ... Perhaps one of the most influential leaders during the Chicano Movement was Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez. ... He was one of the first civil/human rights leaders to speak out against the Vietnam War at mass demonstrations around the country (quevivacorky.com). ... The Chicano Movement aroused and taught a new generation of act...

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Chicano Movement To many of us the Chicano Movement symbolizes the social advancement of people with Spanish decent. Although most of the Chicano Movement took place between 1960-1973, society is still feeling the effects of its impact. ... Also Cesar Chavez named one of the Chicano Movement leaders, has received praise by having March 31, as a holiday in some states. ... The New Raza Left held a conference in 1999; one of the purposes was to bridge the gap between the activists of the 1990's and those leaders of the 60's and 70's. ... To many Latinos the Chicano movement sy...

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Two important movements the students created became known as the "Berkeley Free Speech Movement " and the "Stop the Draft" protests". ... Student leader Mario Savio denounced the compromise and they continued to put up tables even though the administration opposed them. ... It's clear that the Free Speech Movement was important enough to warrant a response and the support of the committee. ... A successful social movement, like the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, must be relatively peaceful and have determined, persistent protesters. ... Overall, the Free Speech Movement was mor...

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This paper will discuss the roots of the Civil Rights Movement, leaders that affected the Civil Rights Movement, and laws that influenced the Civil Rights Movement.  ... Civil Rights Leaders   Leaders such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X all contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. ... Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders were extremely happy that they had accomplished their main goal. ... There were many Civil Rights leaders who contributed to this movement, and helped it be a successful experience. Now in the 21st century, African Americans and many...

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Now that the Civil Rights Movement was making progress, Martin Luther King Jr. hoped that the Chicago Freedom Movement would do the same. ... It is soon realized that the media needed the Chicago Freedom Movement as much as the movement needed the media. ... A New York Times article writes, "The 10-point agreement to end housing bias was reached Essentially the 10 points provide for better implementation and enforcement of fair housing laws, along with increased educational and moral pressure by religious, civic, and union leaders" (Nevard, 1&17). ... There is little mention of the movem...

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However, it is important to emphasize that what came up was not a movement in the conservative sense; for instance, there were no leaders that directed militia affairs. ... The militia movement diversity is among its most fascinating features. ... Indeed, they have less concern on the likelihood of the federal government infiltration of the movement. ... Notably, this structure seems to have been modeled on the notion of "leaderless resistance," presented by Louis Beam, the former leader of Ku Klux Klan. ... Consequently, classifying this movement turns out to be even more complex when ...

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At the very beginning of the movement, although some student leaders were arrested after the break-in of Civic Square, the movement became decentralized and ongoing in an orderly manner. ... Another example is that Liberal Party Leader James Tien was expelled from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after his call on CY Leung to resign. ... Since the very beginning, there was one group of protesters demanding further upgrade of the movement, while the political and student leaders insisted on negotiation. ... All these failures by the student leaders have dissatisfied t...

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Philip Randolph march on Washington movement and of course the Garvey movement. ... Like the slave revolts, the Garvey Movement, and the March of Washington Movement, it was highly organized. ... Philip Randolph, the leader of the movement, anticipated the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s when in 1943 he explicitly called for mass nonviolent demonstrations against Jim Crow laws, to model after Gandhi's passive resistance movement to India. ... The movement played a significant role in inspiring the formation of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 and brought forward famous nonviolent ...

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Most historians agree that the civil rights movement began with either the Brown v. ... With all these factors in place, the civil rights movement in America emerged around the mid 1950s. ... During the Montgomery bus boycott the most influential civil rights leader emerged; Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) became, undeniably, the most important figure throughout the civil rights movement. ... King's and other black leaders along with the protestors of the Montgomery bus boycott hard work eventually paid off, in November 1956, a federal cou...

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The Civil Rights Movement was characterized by mass revolts and rebellions allowing the movement to eventually succeed. ... Williams had become the leader of the local chapter of the NAACP and along with the rest of the community worked to improve living conditions for the colored people in Monroe. ... His suggestion ended up causing a shift in the movement from being purely a movement marked by non-violent protests to armed protests. ... In accordance with Williams' idea of taking up guns and causing the movement to shift into using revolts, Stokely Carmichael in the video "Black Power M...

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This individual was an anti-apartheid activist who as a strong leader was brave, encouraging and challenging. ... Steve Biko, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. ... It formed the heart of the Black Consciousness Movement. ... On 12 September 1977 at the age of thirty this great leader passed away due to brain damage. ... Bantu Steve Biko proved to be a strong leader, brave, encouraging and challenging....

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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. ... Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. ... Washington, called by Boyer and others as "the nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s until . . . 1915," hypothesized that blacks could create social equality by achieving economic equality, and he also founded a vocational school in Alabama, now Tuskegee University (Boyer, et al. 716). ... From this era sprang the circumstances under ...

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Board of Education of Topeka case along with influential leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., emphasized the need for civil liberties, while events such as Rosa Park's seat refusal, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Women's Political Caucus, and the establishment of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee sparked the onset of the Civil Right's Movement. ... This brought leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. who promoted the idea of civil disobedience and Mahatma Gandhi who rallied the streets demanding for the right to vote through a Christian philosophy of being k...

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The progression of the civil rights movement for African Americans advanced through many important events. ... Furthermore there are other factors that contributed to the success of the civil right movement. ... This sparked a bus boycott whereby civil rights leaders got together in order to organise a day to boycott the busses. ... That Montgomery bus boy cut was an event that could arguably be the key Turing point in the civil right movement as it brought an end to racial discrimination on buses and it also helped create a new leader for the civil right movement. ... It also raided the aware...

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The Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks; Two well-known people involved in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The movement overturned Jim Crow Laws, which divided whites and blacks. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. ... The civil rights movement was a struggle, which led to many protests. ... Some leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr. helped to bring people together in love and harmony, helping to make all people equal. ...

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This event, while lacking the violence of the first, has spread throughout the country of India with much of the same force and has sparked a movement that could prove to be just as momentous to millions of people. The event was the birth of the Chipko Movement. So what is the Chipko movement and how can this movement that started in a tiny village in the mountains of India have such substantial effects on an entire nation and possibly beyond its boundaries? To answer these questions, you must first understand the history leading up to 1973 and how the Chipko movement and its leaders have...

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As a somewhat arbitrary starting point, the year 1964 did not only witness the implementation of the Civil Rights Act in the United States, which put an official end to racial segregation - it also was the year that African American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, won the prestigious Noble Peace Prize. ... As another enigmatic figure of the Black Power movement Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X, positioned himself in sharp contrast to King. ... This statement indicates clearly that the legitimacy of the State itself was challenged by the radical wing of the movement for Black ...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement was a very important point in the history of the United States. ... At the age of 26 Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. became the unofficial leader of the civil rights movement in America. ... The blacks fought for racial equality even though they had lost their leader. ... Malcolm X (AKA Malcolm Little or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was one of the most controversial leaders of the civil rights movement. ... Malcolm X did not let the power hungry leaders get hi down for long. ...

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Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as violence and death. That movement was the Civil Rights Movement. ... The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... They took the advice of nonviolence from a great leader named Martin Luther King Jr.... Before he became a civil leader he had many problems. ...

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Thus, the civil disobedience movement began. The peak of this movement came during World War II. ... A little later, a new leader arose, Jomo Kenyatta. ... Regarding this, they formed the Mau Mau movement. ... Both were inspired to make movements by a leader (Gandhi & Kenyatta), that were later imprisoned. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement is the movement of the 1950's and 1960's to win equal rights for all African Americans. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... It was around the time that Martin Luther King Jr. became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Civil Rights Movement had a big and lasting impact on the U.S society. ... In the United States, the most outstanding theoretician and practitioner of Civil Disobedience was Civil Rights leader Dr. ...

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While the aforementioned events set the foreground for the modern Civil Rights Movement, the catalyst of the Movement involved two events, which both took place in 1955: the murder of Emmett Till in August, and Rosa Parks" arrest in December. ... Because of the grounds on which Rosa Parks was arrested, several prominent leaders of the black community organized a boycott of the Montgomery public transportation system as a means of protesting the city's segregation laws. ... Ralph Abernathy formed the SCLC, which was a key element in the modern Civil Rights Movement. ... They hoped to dr...

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The Newfoundland Labor Movement Newfoundland Workers demonstrated in early days of settlement they were willing to take collective action to defend their interests. ... There were two key pieces of legislation, which also helped the labor movement. ... The Newfoundland federation of labor (NFL) was another significant organization in Newfoundland's labor movement founded by Alphonsus Gregory Duggan in 1936. ... Industries which have low unionization rates were not typically a part of the labor movement and harder to organize. ... Newfoundlanders did not have the same opportunity cons...

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The civil rights movement was like a war conducted on many fronts. ... Martin Luther King was a key player in the civil rights movement. ... The roots of the movement started in the 19th century however the peak of the movement was in the 1950s and 1960s. ... With this in mind, this helped the civil rights movement to be the successful movement that it was as the television was one of the main contributors for access of information to show America what was going on within the movement. ... It served as a motivational factor for the movement. ...

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The women who began the movement included Susan B. ... The leader of the movement sent a message through the written word that women deserved the right to vote, to hold a job and raise a family, and to become to their male counterparts, equal. ... Many great women were prominent in the movement. ... They informed and inspired many women about the movement (Potter 11-17). ... This is one of the top reasons the movement itself has gone so far. ...

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