In The Racial Ring The 1960's represent a turbulent time in American history. ... Following the word "revolution," X gives a definition of it, "Revolution are based upon bloodshed"(Malcolm 235). ... All throughout his speech, Malcolm X continuously talks about a bloody revolution that is to take place in America, which sticks to the minds of his listeners. ... Also by saying, "Revolutions are based upon bloodshed" X predicts that many people will die during this revolution. ... X is falsely reporting that his people care enough to rise with the African-Americans in this revolution tha...

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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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Context The term "civil rights movement" refers to the collective efforts of African Americans to advance in American society. ... •In his letter, king states the growing impatience of African Americans. ... King uses this strategy in order to persuade his audience by showing both the violent and the non-violent sides of the revolution and thus making a non-violent revolution more appealing. ... King first presents the idea of a peaceful revolution through the use of Godly metaphors and imagery, however he also discusses about the possibility of a violent revolution. ... By p...

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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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Two Approaches to Revolution: "Like Oil and Water" What would it be like to have separate drinking fountains and bathrooms depending on the color of your skin? ... If the government of America truly repents of its sins against our people and atones by giving us our true share of the land and the wealth, then America can save herself. ... Malcolm X felt that America needed a shock to bring about revolution and his words would be the means to bring this change. ... Despite their characteristic differences, both men were considered to be saviors for the African American community in America. ...

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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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King used The Declaration of Independence to pull open the eyes of society and the white race towards the African Americans. ... was only trying to open the eyes of society by making it realize that America is not following the simple principles it was founded on: "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness- (Declaration). ... "There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution that is, a technological revolution, with the impact of automation and cybernation then there is a revolution in weaponry, with t...

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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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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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King and Malcolm were both African American civil rights activists. ... While Martin Luther King Jr. advocated equality among whites and blacks, Malcolm X argued that equality is impossible and preached the "sharp truth" that he thought could cure and save the African American man and woman. ... While he left the Nation of Islam (NOI), Malcolm X was still a Muslim and did abandon his commitment to free his fellow African Americans from such crippling bonds. ... Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU). While he accepted the support of the whites for his new organization, membership...

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Very few pioneers influenced America and the rest of the world in the magnitude that both Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Theresa have done. Within the midst of this large gap of ethical leaders, was a man who led a revolution. ... The news of King's death was seen as a devastating setback for the African-American community as a whole. ... Through his determination, and his strong beliefs, Martin Luther did not become a hero just for America, but rather the entire world. ... Had King not have existed, America, and quite possibly the whole world would still have not have evolved as fast as ...

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By a single act of courage she helped change the lives of the African Americans and America as a whole. ... This single act of courage sparked a revolution in many of the black and white communities of Untied States. ... Seventy five percent of the public bus riders were African Americans (Kohl, 2004). ... In the four decades after refusing to give up her seat, she saw an end to legalized segregation in America and the emergence of an African American upper and middle class. ... Rosa Parks granted the dreams and wishes of many African Americans. ...

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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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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat that afternoon of December 1, 1955, she didn't see the revolution that act of courage would induce on the world as we know. ... While also have the African American drivers to primarily serviced African American passengers. ... First, it is widely regarded as the earliest mass protest on behalf of civil rights in the U.S., setting the stage for additional large scale actions outside the court system to bring about fair treatment for African Americans. ...

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., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. ... Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. ... And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. ... They had stood together as American blacks had never before stood together. ... SCLC's motto was "t...

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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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