Civil Disobedience When we think of civil disobedience in modern times we conjure up images of Martin Luther King Jr. fighting for African American civil rights against White America, or Ghandi peacefully defeating the British in India. ... The other option of violent revolution often leads to military or dictatorial regimes being thrust into power where they act as bad if not worse than their predecessors. ... Henry David Thoreau shows in his work that America has changed little in over 150 years. ... America today, or more correctly right after 911 had flags flying everywhere possible. ....

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Takaki speaks of each ethnicity in America and gives voices to their oppression by the Europeans when they lived in America. ... Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... From there Africans were slaves the moment they stepped foot onto America. ... California was needed for the market revolution, so the Mexicans began working in ranching and agriculture. ... Soon, the Irish were being accepted as equal communities in America. ...

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Martin Luther King also brought up the point of how the war affected Americas poor. ... America concentrated more on war than helping the poor advance. ... King also visited ghettos in North America. ... Kennedy's statement," Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." ... In order for America to get on the right side of the world revolution, we would have to be less arrogant and materialistic and more concerned about people less fortunate than ourselves. ...

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They were two strong African American men that fought for what they stood for. ... He wanted the Negro society to stop focusing on their recognition as an American, but as a human being. ... Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. Revolutions are never compromising. Revolutions are never based upon negotiations. ...

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The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Prince Hall, an ex-slave, became a mason while fighting in the American Revolution alongside white soldiers who were freemasons. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. Upon returning from the revolution and opening the first black lodge in Boston, MA, Hall was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. ... In Hall's speech " A Charge Delivered to The Brethren," he addresses his masons as grand master and e...

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In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, John F. ... This does not just refer to the freedoms already possessed by every American of the time. ... The combination of defiance, revolution, and drugs created a major Hippie era. ... The average, neutral American, after seeing his/her TV screen, turned into a civil rights supporter. ... However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. ...

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Both men shared the same goal of wanting equal rights for all men and woman in America. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... X believed that, "It is not integration that Negroes in America want, it is human dignity (X 102). ... In part of the speech he contrasted the "Negro Revolution- of the people of the civil rights movement and, his belief in the, "Black Revolution."" He said that the black revolution "is international in scope- and, "knows no compromise."" ...

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In the song the band mentions two great men of the civil rights period who made America better for black people. ... Both men shared the same goal of wanting equal rights for all men and woman in America. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... In part of the speech he contrasted the "Negro Revolution- of the people of the civil rights movement and, his belief in the, "Black Revolution."" He said that the black revolution "is international in scope- and, "knows no compromise."" ...

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The 1950's had some major protesting going on. The biggest ones were nuclear arms race, and the other was racial discrimination. The rights of minorities were taking the back burner for the nuclear arms. The civil rights movement started with things like the Plessy vs. Ferguson. This was a case ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. quite correctly named the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century the Third American Revolution. ... The civil rights movement actually started with legal battles before moving into the streets of American cities. ... As the years went on African Americans became even more willing to stand up for their rights, to the point where MLK led a march on Washington D.C. ... They wanted to end discrimination, to become accepted as American citizens with all the rights, duties and privileges that entails. ...

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We have come to see that it is not confined to Anglo-Americans, but can affect people from all racial or ethnic backgrounds. ... In our discussions and lessons about racism, we have learned about great American heroes who have stood up against bigotry. Rosa Parks, who as a young African-American woman who in 1963 refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, ignited a social revolution. Her righteous defiance led to a boycott of buses by African-Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, and also to laws that changed the legal nature of prejudice. ...

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Throughout American history, it is clear that many individuals have fought for justice in a society that has often denied it. ... It was a revolution in the use of state power, and, a revolution in the repair of human freedom....

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. ... When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-cla...

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King wishes to bring all African Americans together as brothers and sisters to fight for their freedom. Freedom is the foundation of the U.S., it is what we fought for in the American Revolution, and King wishes to bring about equal freedom for all people, black and white. ... King explains that freedom must be fought for, freedom will not come to anyone, and the whites certainly will not give it to the African Americans. ... King uses bitter sarcasm when talking about the American dream, and the American creed of equality and freedom. The indignant vigor King uses in his speech is direct towa...

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Throughout his lifetime he led other African Americans, through nonviolent protests and marches, to fight for the integration of the American society and for the equal treatment of the blacks. ... He lead thousands of sanitation workers and their sympathizers and on this march, African American youngsters began throwing rocks and ransacking stores. ... Until his death King remained steadfast in his commitment to the transformation of American society through nonviolent activism. In his posthumously published essay, "A Testament of Hope," he urged African Americans to refrain from violence...

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In the film "Wag The Dog" a phony war is created to divert the American public's attention from their wayward President, mere days before (re)election. The viewers turning on the set for America vs. ... The portrayal of the president in Wag the Dog reflects and reinforces the American public's fear of the stereotypical presidential "Conspirator". ... Animal Farm is most famous as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. ... Stalin's tyrannical rule and eventual abandonment of the founding principles of the Russian Revolution are represented by t...

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Martin Luther King Junior's appeal to the clergymen's decisions was a concise, and effective statement, which conveys the reasons for, and the process in which civil disobedience can be put in action. In it, he directly but easily puts forth his reasons for his disappointment in rational, and under...

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King, an avid reader of many philosophers and renegades" works, got from Gandhi's works what he failed to get from the works of Marx, Lenin, Hobbes, and Bentham: a working system of peaceful revolution. ... (Dream Speech) African Americans have made many important scientific discoveries. ... African American Granville T. ... King's work was an outstanding victory: African Americans can now attend any university and obtain any job as long as they have the proper credentials. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. ... The Civil Rights Movement has also been called the Black Freedom Movement, the Negro Revolution, and the Second Reconstruction. ... At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. ... The national media event dramatized the seriousness of the desegregation for many Americans....

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One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ... americans became aware of the dangers they encountered everyday and would perhaps hand down to their children. ... she envisioned beautification all over america. ...

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