Could you describe your experiences during the 1950's and 1960's with regard to the Civil Right movement of the time? ... However with the Civil Right Movement in the 60's we finally were able to vote, it became a reality. ... I had mixed feeling about if the nonviolent peaceful movement by Dr. ... However the movement finally did product some positive results for African American. Do you have any particular feelings about any of the leaders of the time, Malcolm X or Dr. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... The Movement also brought about important non-legislative impact on the American people. ... Prior to the Movement, most Americans were oblivious to the problem of racism and prejudice. By exposing racial injustice and inequalities to the mass populace, civil rights leaders achieved what could perhaps not have been accomplished a few decades earlier: recognition. ... Although it occurs more often than overt racism, covert discrimination is hard to detect and is usually ignored by politicians and important political and social leaders. ...

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One of the main leaders of the movement for the defense of the right civiler and important defender of the not violent resistance to the repression racial. ... The boycott of Montgomery was an evident victory of the not violent protest and King arose like a leader very respected. Consciences of it, the black clergymen of all the South founded the south Christian Conference of Leaders (SCLC), being chosen King their president. ... However, at the beginning of 1967, King had associated the leaders of the movement against the war, independently of its color. ... Martin Luther King wa...

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His boisterous and outspoken personality made him a favorite of black militant leaders such as Malcolm X. ... Having been involved with militant black leaders such as Malcolm X, Powell was used to and accepting of the militant leader's style of forcing government to hear his demands. Powell considered himself on the "Militant wing of the racial protest movement" (Hamilton 4). ... He became a symbol of the Civil rights movement and for a while was even nicknamed "Mr. ... He was at odds with local political leaders and was constantly battling Congress because of his flamboyant lifestyle. ...

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This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. ... Washington was an educator as well as a reformer, and the most influential African American leader of his time. ... DuBois helped found a civil rights protest organization called the Niagara Movement. ... These two leaders, on the other hand, had many similarities as well. ... He also later in his speech gives another reference to John Brown and tries to depict a non-violent movement in saying, "We (Niagara Movement) do not believe in violence But we do believe in John Brown, in that inc...

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Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil right's movement, which began with Mr. ... Although the program was first initiated for positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation. ... The Bakke decision further reinforced the thriving white opposition to "reverse discrimination", but did not weaken the strength of the affirmative action movement. "You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying, now you are free to go where you ...

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The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... But he was also well aware of the fact that the movement towards this aim depended upon the good will of the ruling Whites. ... They chose King as their leader. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious leaders at home and abroad. ... King and other civil rights leaders, like Philip Randolph and Roy Wilkins met with president Eisenhower, with no results. ...

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Although these leaders recognized that there was a problem, they strongly disagreed in their solutions to solving this problem. ... In the summer of 1905 DuBois founded an organization entitled the Niagara Movement. ... The movement, however, ceased to continue s a result of organizational weakness, lack of funds, and permanent headquarters or staff. ... White leaders loved Washington's speech in which all of his ideas were presented. ... These intellectuals went on to found the Niagara Movement that directly disputed Washington's Atlanta Compromise of 1895. ...

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The book portrays her fight from when she was a small child on a plantation farm until she became a great civil rights leader in Mississippi. ... It shows life in a Mississippi town during the civil rights movement of the 1940's and 1950's. ...

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The leaders of the twenty-first century, whoever they are, he states, must motivate, activate, and invigorate us for a freer, more stable America. He says: "We need leaders-neither saints nor sparkling television personalities-who can situate them- selves within a larger historical narrative of this country and our world, who can grasp the complex dynamics of our peoplehood and imagine a future grounded in the best of our past, yet who are attuned to the frightening obstacles that now perplex us...". ... Bell has in the past and continues in this text to see...

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While in prison, Malcolm read widely and developed an interest in the Nation of Islam, a Black Nationalist religious movement whose members were known as Black Muslims. Malcolm studied the teachings of the leader of the Black Muslims, Elijah Muhammad, who advocated an independent black state. ... His personal journey from petty criminal to spiritual leader was unique. ...

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Recent events which depict this movement are the solutions to the following racial conflicts: apartheid in South Africa, the American civil rights movement, and the treatment of aboriginals in Canada. ... In 1964, Nelson Mandela, the popular leader of the African National Congress, an organization to combat apartheid, was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the South African government. ... A major turning point in this struggle was the civil rights movement which occurred between the 1950's and the 1970's. During this movement, blacks were int...

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This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. This internal migration was important not only culturally, but also one, because of its encouragement of black assertiveness, as white politicians viewed blacks as a more powerful political presence; and two, because it stimulated a national movement for civil rights. ... In March of 1941, a black leader named Philip Randolph proposed a new civil rights strategy: a massive march on Washington D.C., in whi...

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In 1960, the Pan-African Congress leaders organized nationwide peaceful demonstrations against 'pass laws' that restricted individual freedom. ... Steve Biko, a leader of black consciousness, once said "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"(Document 5). ... Biko's death promised great sorrow within the anitiapartheid movement and he is remembered as a martyr. ... A great leader once said that he was willing to die for a cause he truely believes in. This great leader was an inspiration to those who wanted to end apartheid. ...

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Portrayed as both extremely intelligent and charismatic, Derek entices many young whites, to join the movement. ... As punishment for submitting an essay on Hitler's Mein Kampf for an assignment on a civil rights leader, Principal Sweeney ordered Danny to attend a daily history seminar with him entitled "American History X". ...

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Although they were a thorn in the black's side they fell in power when a KKK leader was jailed for the rape and torture of a young black woman. ... Blacks were also forced to live in the "ghettos" of cities.The northern states of the U.S.A still suffered from racism and segregation but not on the level of the South states.The Civil rights movement made a big leap forward when the Government made segregation illegal and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.These 2 events gave the Civil Rights 2 stepping stones towards the Civil Rights they so badly wanted. ...

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The Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK can be separated into different periods, each period led by a different leader. ... Suddenly everyone, including their new leader, wanted to be involved in such a daring and exciting organization. ... Simmons and the top leaders grew enormously rich by charging members a ten-dollar initiation fee, one-dollar monthly fee and six dollars and fifty cents for a white robe and hood. ... The government has taken action against the KKK for many years, especially during the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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An increasingly assertive opposition movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won and that favoring members of one group over another simply goes against the American grain. ... Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. ... Blacks, whose leaders strenuously but unsuccessfully resisted sharing the Voting Rights Act with Hispanics, will not need to be convinced of the wisdom of restricting affirmat...

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Several black leaders tried to turn the tide of racism in the south and they met with varying success. ... Dubois founded the "Niagara" movement which tried to unify black intellectuals tighter into one group. This movement failed largely because it did not appeal to the middle classes, and because it met with fierce opposition in white supremacy groups such as the KKK, which wanted to keep blacks in the lower, working classes. ...

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Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. ... Influenced By Mahatma Gandhi and the victory Gandhi gained with his non-violent civil disobedience policy, Martin as an African American leader, urged his people to act in a civil well mannered way; but to resist oppression, a hybrid method of "fighting back the system" while showing that African Americans can have eloquence and defy violent negative stereotypes; he called it nonviolent resistance. ... With the gift of commentary and the power to influence and mov...

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Derek developes his hate from his father murder, so now he becomes the leader of a local white power mevement. ... The workers employed in the store were also vandalized, the white power movement beat the workers and vandalized the store. ...

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Such people as Tom Metzger, Terrible Tommy, Leon Degrelle, Alex Curtis, and Shane McCormick, publisher of Hammerskin Press and leader of Hammerskins.com, view themselves as superior. ... Shane is twenty-five years old and has been in the movement for about nine years. ... How can we be a real racist movement on the outside if we don't show support on the outside. ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was the first political movement to equality; in 1863 it proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten rebelling states. ... The black codes were aimed at stopping the movement of equality in the "de jure" sense, demonstrated by the vagrancy laws which saw homeless unemployed black Americans arrested and fined. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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