He did not go there expecting to play a role in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movements. ... This lead him to a new group called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee where he would be working in the front lines of some of the most historical events of the Civil Rights Movement. ... With the same volition of his protest in the Civil Rights Movement, he attacked the United States government for use of imperialism and power to control Vietnam thus having claim in Southeast Asia. ... The Unites States was and still is on a global spread of their so called democracy, but Zinn has seen...

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The civil rights movement had been a growing cause since the 13th, 14th, and amendments were passed in the 19th century. These abolished slavery, provided equal rights under the law, and black suffrage. ... He was a major advocate for civil rights and worked together with many leaders of the movement to draft acts that would lead to equality in the future. ...

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It was the year President Johnson signed the civil rights act and the year that Richard M. ... In the united state there had been multiple civil rights movement. The first and second women moment,disabled, Gay and Lesbian movement and African American movement. The women rights movement is the fight for the idea that women are equal to men and should have the same rights that men are allowed to have. ... The disability rights movement is the struggle by people who are denied equality,full access to society and wish access to all civil rights gain to all Americans....

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The Civil Rights movement was the biggest domestic news and a time was coming when action was going to be taken against legalized segregation. ... Both songs were written in the early to mid-1960's and dealt with the political issues of Civil Rights act and the Vietnam War. ... The next verse begins the section concerning the Civil Rights movement. ... Bob Dylan's "These Times They Are A-Changin'-, written in 1963, is basically a prediction of what is to come concerning the Civil Rights movement. ... Their views on civil rights are mostly the same, demanding that action be taken...

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Rosa Parks- black American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat5 on a public bus to a white man. This was recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S civil rights movement Martin luther king jr.- eloquent black Baptist minister who led the civil-rights movement in the u.s. from the mid 1950's until his death. ...

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Kennedy was also a strong supporter of civil rights. ... Martin Luther King with his fight for civil rights. ... During the sixties, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force. With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. ... Martin Luther King was also civil rights activist who sought and fought for civil rights without violence. ...

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In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, John F. ... All of the social issues are reflected in today's society: the civil rights movement, the student movement, the sexual revolution, the environment, and most controversial of all, Hippies. ... The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by Rev. ... The average, neutral American, after seeing his/her TV screen, turned into a civil rights supporter. ... Unfortunately, the thing that really moved the civil rights movement along significantly was the m...

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One of Johnson's most prized bills was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... LBJ had seen the civil rights reform as an essential to the well being of his native region. He saw the personal gain from pressing ahead with the civil rights legislation. ... Through LBJ's early decision to commit himself to the cause of racial equality resulted in the passage of 3 landmark laws: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Civil Rights Act of 1968. ... Almost 1,000 demonstrators took a page from the manual of the Civil Rights Movement and held a sit-in outside of the White Hou...

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Nixon thought that calmness had to be restored in America and ending the war with his "secret plan," and encouraging the civil rights movement. ... However, after King endorsed the McCarthy campaign he would now have to pick up support and take a stand for peace and civil rights. ... Kennedy's main point in his campaign was to bring together the minorities of America and call for civil rights. His main points in his campaign would be, civil rights, poverty, and the war. ... However, after King died, many turned to Kennedy as a sign of help and possibly one to lead the fight for civil ...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. ... Abolitionists in the north began a movement to end it. ... This attitude was considered music to the Souths ears since they wanted state rights anyway. ...

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The 1960's was home to the Sexual Revolution, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion and the Summer of Love. ... In August 1962, 200 000 civil rights activists converged on Washington, D.C and heard Rev. ... Major issues aside from the war were written about including; a growing disillusionment of government ideology, advances in civil rights, increased influence of the women's movement, and a heightened concern for the environment. ... The civil rights movement and the escalating war were two major catalysts for social and musical protest. ...

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JFK- wore wrinkled khaki's to Congress PET- wore sandals to house of commons JFK-Cuban Missle Crisis PET- War Measures Act JFK-Civil Rights Movement-pushed equality on the top of nations agenda PET-Official Languages Act JFK- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- inaugural speech PET- "The Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation- JFK-new level of idealism and activism PET- Charter of Rights and Freedoms, JFK-Televised debate, he won- Radio-Nixon won- awesome speaker, good presence PET-Same thing, used the me...

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To put the civil rights and the Vietnam war together is two very import things that tie into each other. ... The Civil rights movement made it so that blacks have the same freedoms as whites and are not discriminated against as much and when they are they get there punishment unlike back then when you got support for such things. ...

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Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Civil Rights protests and riots, the year was definitely a year of crisis for American society. ... This was the first war shown on television and this made the anti-war movement ever stronger. ... Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights riot, 1968 was definitely a year of crisis for American Society. ...

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They felt that movements such as movements toward gay rights and movements toward civil rights had caused a loss in tradition to the way the United States Government had been ran in the past. ... The anti-Vietnam War movement brought demonstrations in New York City that attracted 25,000 marchers; within two years similar demonstrations drew several hundred thousand participants in Washington, D.C., London, and other European capitals. The election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and his reduction in U.S. ground forces did little to dampen the antiwar movement. The legacy and meaning of the massive...

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Kerry, a veteran of the war, and Martin Luther King, a mature civil rights activist. ... King speaks of civil right unparticular. ... There are students who are protesting for better educations, African Americans who are struggling for civil rights, poor people who are trying to abolish poverty and secure democracy, and more importantly there are faculty members who are questioning the importance of their institutions to the critical problems that our society is facing during this time (846). ... This movement would also understand the nation of Vietnam rather than allow the State Department...

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The Greek Civil War in 1947, the Communist tactics in Czechoslovakia and the blockade of Berlin, Germany in 1948 added to the already culminating angers of the U.S. towards the USSR. ... Arthur Miller, author of the play "The Crucible," was one of the many Hollywood writers who faced public scrutiny because of alleged ties to the communist movement in America. ... More modern examples of this include everything from apartheid in Africa and the constant turmoil in Bosnia to the civil rights movements in the United States. ...

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In the late sixties there was a huge movement among the young generation known as the hippie movement. ... Their rights were not very good and segregation was still riding high in America. ... They weren't the only civil rights movement group to stand up against the war. Sections of the women's rights movements also dedicated themselves to the withdrawal of American troops in Vietnam. ... The sickened public were appalled at these sights and stories and so a growing youth movement, among others started the protesting against Vietnam. ...

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But, he also opposed every civil right legislation and "apprenticed himself to . southern senators who controlled the real authority.."... Combined with the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, many American thought that Johnson was giving too much importance to African Americans and other minorities; this caused antagonism toward Johnson and liberal government...

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Martin Luther King Jr. was the most influential civil rights leader in America. The civil rights movement was a huge movement to secure African Americans with equal rights and opportunities. ... If whites opened their eyes to the truths about blacks and equal rights then society would not have been filled with ignorance. ...

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James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied art history and political science. Images from the Vietnam War and the American civil rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. James Nach...

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Around the mid-part, the Vietnam War and Civil rights are highly talked about. ... Around the end, Farber writes about the end of the 1960s in which involves Black Panthers, Charles Manson, Woodstock, and Altamont (Rolling Stones concert where Hell's Angels were behaving badly) which seemed to mark an end of an era to the early 1970s where Watergate occurred, Vietnam finally ended, and the Women's Lib movement seemed to become important. ...

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You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...

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The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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He had great speech writers, who wrote for him, but he was a great speaker. " The south didn't take too lightly on him cause of his support of the civil rights movement." ... Did you support Jimmy Carters Human Rights policy? "If its so important then what about the human rights in China and other countries like that. ...

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