According to several biographies Malcolm Little left school embittered after a junior high school year teacher told him being a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger". ... This likely helped form his decision to quit school and began his downward slide and turn to crime; at this point in his life he was not what one looks for in a role model, but it is possibly overcoming such great obstacles to become a great leader that inspires so many. ... But in the end, his message was one to self-respect, independence, and dignity for all." ...

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The movement often met with strong opposition, such as in Birmingham, Alabama, where police sprayed protestors with high pressure fire hoses. ... Other Civil Rights Acts of these two decades included, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which established federal commission on civil rights and a civil rights division in the Justice Department to enforce civil rights laws; Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in most employment and in public accommodation, enlarged federal power to protect voting rights and speed up school desegregation, and established equal employment op...

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Kings entire family was involved with the church and there were many high expectations that King would follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. ... King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. ... Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. After attending Morehouse College, King decided to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, a very liberal school. ... King ...

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To help cope with these surfacing problems, Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau; it aided slaves with their needs and struggle for independence (23), but blacks still suffered. ... However, with questions such as "How high is up?" ... Washington, called by Boyer and others as "the nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s until . . . 1915," hypothesized that blacks could create social equality by achieving economic equality, and he also founded a vocational school in Alabama, now Tuskegee University (Boyer, et al. 716). ...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about hi...

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"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. ... When Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old high school student was arrested on March 2, 1955, and later found guilty for not relinquishing her seat (one that was reserved for black passengers) to a white person, the black community of Montgomery was outraged. ...

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He was invited to West Africa for the celebration of Ghana's independence. ... He attended Mason Junior High, where he was the only black student. ... Disillusioned and pessimistic, he left school (finishing grade eight) to live with his sister Ella Mae Little Collins in Boston. ...

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Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Another women by the name of Claudette Colvin who was the age of 15 in high school was also handcuffed and taken to jail. ... Malcolm also believed that freedom or, independence comes only by two ways; by ballots or by bullets. ...

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