Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ... In the face of white intransigence, King spoke of the moral arc of the universe being long, but ultimately bending towards justice. ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. ... James Cone, in his landmark study, Martin and Malcolm and America, lays out Malcolm X's challenge to King's philosophy of nonviolence, which emphasized that white America would never be persuaded to tr...

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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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Mandela's American counterpart was Martin Luther King, Jr. ... After attending grammar and high school locally, King enrolled in Morehouse College (also in Atlanta) in 1944. ... Death came for King on the balcony of a black-owned hotel on the evening of April 4, 1960. ... King fell over, struck in the neck by a rifle bullet. ... Also, Mandela and King were both arrested for promoting antiapartheid. ...

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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). ...

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In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. She met all the requirements to attend except one. Linda brown was black and black children were not al...

• Word Count: 936
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The whole concept of whiteness is racism, whiteness is constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to certain privileges form those whose exploitation and vulnerability to violence is justified. The term whiteness focuses mainly towards the white male, leaning towards virtues and...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effects of slavery have been an enduring issue within the Black community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm ra...

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As stated by Schraeder, one of "two important developments" contributed to pressures for change US foreign Policy toward south Africa during the late 1950s was firstly, a growing civil rights movement striving for the political equality of African Americans ensured greater official attention to the issues of race in both domestic and international policies...Reverend Martin Luther King led a demonstration on December 10, 1957 to denounce apartheid and call attention to South Africa's refusal to sign the UN Declaration on Human Rights... ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate