Board of Education of Topeka case along with influential leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., emphasized the need for civil liberties, while events such as Rosa Park's seat refusal, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Women's Political Caucus, and the establishment of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee sparked the onset of the Civil Right's Movement. ... This brought leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. who promoted the idea of civil disobedience and Mahatma Gandhi who rallied the streets demanding for the right to vote through a Christian philosophy of being k...

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Source C is an extract from Martin Luther King's 'Chaos or Community', although it is written by one of the leaders of the civil rights movement it gives a balanced picture by commenting on the successes of the sit-ins, 'freedom rides' and marches with minimum loss of life but he also states that there are limitations of non-violent protest and there is still a long way to go. ...

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The Council was able to recruit clergy to lend their churches for mass meetings and was able to tap into a new minister in town, Martin Luther King, Jr., to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would coordinate the larger Montgomery Bus Boycotts. ... The Civil Rights Movement influenced them "to think radically about the personal worth and abilities of people whose role in society had gone unchallenged before," (pp. 100-101) as explained by Casey Hayden and Mary King in their memo "Sex and Caste" (Gosse, 2005). ...

• Word Count: 2185
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The Civil Rights Movement was characterized by mass revolts and rebellions allowing the movement to eventually succeed. One significant event that saw a shift in the movement from mass rebellions to revolts occurred in 1962 which was documented in Robert Williams' book "Negroes with Guns"." Williams...

• Word Count: 956
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A lot of private firms and individuals sponsored these cases, demonstrations were also popular, riots, political scandals, affirmative action, Martin Luther King were all examples of how both public and private people played a role in this long, frustrating, painful, and for some very tragic process. ...

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Martin Luther King was a key player in the civil rights movement. ... King addressed his well-known speech 'I have a dream' here.This essays aims to discuss the success of the Civil Rights Movement by playing special emphasis on the structural changes of the American society as well as the organizational strength of the movement. ... King mobilised the African-American community within the movement. ... The minister was king (Austin,2003). ...

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Social movements are brought on by various forms of civil disobedience which Thoreau (cited in Goodman, 2002) describes as a "responsibility, not a right in the face of injustice". Thoreau, publisher of Civil Disobedience 1849, was one of the first advocates for civil disobedience, not just in wri...

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Led by Martin Luther King, Jr, African-Americans who had been treated as second-class citizens for more than a century, used successfully the strategy of civil disobedience by promoting and ensuring the civil rights of millions. ...

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This statement, made by one of the Black Civil Rights movement's most radical leaders clearly shows an acknowledgement of the similarity between the group's, as he called for solidarity between the two groups in order to fight one larger cause, injustice-which, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, when present somewhere, injustice, "is a threat to injustice everywhere....

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"Food not Bombs is perhaps the best, single idea to come out of the Anarchist Movement in the last fifty years" (Pfeiffer, 2006: 80). It represents an independent, collective movement which focuses on giving vegan and vegetarian food to various groups of people, under two main circumstances, which w...

• Word Count: 2372
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