The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. ... These crises and struggles for civil rights in the United States culminate in the 1960s, producing the Civil Rights Movement. Although it is called "The Civil Rights Movement," it is only a section of a greater American struggle for civil rights. ... Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. ... The people from before the Civil Rights Movement were widely variegated in their beliefs and cont...

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(Gould 1858: 35) Its not that Lincoln thought blacks where evil or should be treated like animals. ... The hard liners were treated there slaves like animals and had no remorse. ... They to thought blacks were inferior, but they didn't think that people of color were animals. These slave owners weren't unfairly cruel to their slaves and believed that rights of freedom did not depend on their intelligence. Thomas Jefferson wrote "Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights."...

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Throughout The New Lost Generation, Baldwin uses metaphor of color and lights to emphasis his points on society and how society treats people of color. He uses the colors white and black to identify the parallels between good and bad, as to what society believes is good and bad. The colors he uses s...

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the rights of the African American people. They wanted equal rights and desegregation, but even today we do not have equal rights or a desegregated society. ... Some people treat blacks as if they are from another planet and others as if they are animals. ...

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Africans were kidnapped (often by other tribes, in Africa slavery had existed before the white man entered Africa), treated like animals or even worse, and brought to the USA in chains. ... But the so-called Reconstruction period failed, although Blacks were now called citizens", they still had no civil rights. ... The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... The fight for equal rights continued. ... King and other civil rights leaders, like Philip Randolph and Roy Wilkins met with president Eisenhower, with no results. ...

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He creates a situation where an African American slave is treated like an animal. ... Hughes said, "my mother, who was always ready to do battle for the rights of a free people, went directly to the school board, and got me into the Harrison Street School" (Berry 4). ...

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That was sufficient reason for them to deny me those rights and freedoms without which life loses its significance and becomes a matter of little more than animal survival"(111-112), as Griffin explained how they judged him on his skin color. ...

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Slaves were seen as dependent, inferior to the white race and without any civil rights. ... Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely...

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