However, it is important to emphasize that what came up was not a movement in the conservative sense; for instance, there were no leaders that directed militia affairs. ... The militia movement diversity is among its most fascinating features. ... Indeed, they have less concern on the likelihood of the federal government infiltration of the movement. ... Notably, this structure seems to have been modeled on the notion of "leaderless resistance," presented by Louis Beam, the former leader of Ku Klux Klan. ... Consequently, classifying this movement turns out to be even more complex when ...

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The civil rights movement was like a war conducted on many fronts. ... Martin Luther King was a key player in the civil rights movement. ... The roots of the movement started in the 19th century however the peak of the movement was in the 1950s and 1960s. ... With this in mind, this helped the civil rights movement to be the successful movement that it was as the television was one of the main contributors for access of information to show America what was going on within the movement. ... It served as a motivational factor for the movement. ...

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While researching the American Enlightenment Movement, I found that although historians talk more about the French thinker's role in the revolution, it was actually four American rulers who left a mark in history. ... My goal in this paper is to show the connection between the American Enlightenment Movement and four major American leaders. ... Those leaders decided it was a reasonable way to create a better society. ... The European leaders created the necessary platform the American leaders needed to build off of such as peace, liberty, freedom, natural and legal rights, and property...

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Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. ... Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... As the Progressive Movement strengthened it enticed many people, feminists used the platform to gain support for woman suffrage. ... After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level. ... Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Comp...

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Similarly to the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Rights Movement is currently striving for equal protection under the law, and fair treatment within various institutions such as the institution of marriage, or within the work place. ... Upon analysis of the two movements, however, it becomes ever apparent that despite the explicit differences the Gay Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Movement are actually one in the same. ... Although the Gay liberation movement during this time period was marginal, it still existed, and leader of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. ... This statement, made by...

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Woodrow Wilson was one of the prominent progressive leaders. ... Progressive movement wasn't so much a radical one but it more moderate in trying to fulfill democracy. The progressive movement was without a doubt a radical movement but they didn't completely forget about America's foundation. ... The progressive movement certainly had its flaws. ... Overall, the progressive movement had the success of creating the ideas for the implementation of programs that we use today....

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One of the main leaders of the movement for the defense of the right civiler and important defender of the not violent resistance to the repression racial. ... The boycott of Montgomery was an evident victory of the not violent protest and King arose like a leader very respected. Consciences of it, the black clergymen of all the South founded the south Christian Conference of Leaders (SCLC), being chosen King their president. ... However, at the beginning of 1967, King had associated the leaders of the movement against the war, independently of its color. ... Martin Luther King wa...

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At this moment, the word transformation invites a very positive notion of the growing progressive social movement in this country, the transformation of our national consciousness. ... The movement towards a reclamation of our popular sovereignty is on the brink of success, only lacking in one important aspect. Every large-scale social transformation requires a leader, someone to help steer the large number of diverse ideologies towards their shared aspirations. Those opposed to such a transformation understand this and have attempted to derail the movement by offering up wolves in sheep&#x...

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At its inception, the KOL included nine tailors whose leader was Uriah S. ... However, new members and local leaders gradually radicalized the organization. ... Labor leader Terence V. ... Progressivism in American history was a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century. ... The progressive movement arose as a response to the vast changes brought by industrialization. ...

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The Tea Party movement began in February 2009 when a group of disgruntled citizens from nine different cities banded together to protest President Obama's massive stimulus bill (Spillius). ... Because there is no exact leader or structure, it is hard to get a grasp on what the Tea Partiers are all about. ...

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On a Web posting directed at the new president, the group's leader warns that "a heavy legacy of crime awaits" him. ... For many people, the election of Barack Obama marked the culmination of the efforts of leaders of the African-American rights movement, such as Malcolm X. ...

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Due to this confusion and lack of continuous education, leaders began to develop educational reforms. Horace Mann of Massachusetts was the most prominent leader calling for educational reforms. ... He began the movement in public education that would become known as the "Common School Movement", which pushed for a tax-funded, secular public school system. ... Orthodox Church leaders attacked Mann, going as far as calling his policy, "a grand instrument in the hands of free thinkers, atheists and infidels.... " This sparked a movement to change their prisons and build new,...

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(Out of Many, 633) I agree with both leaders ideology, I feel the only way to obtain more rights is to improve yourself in order to be seen as an equal, then fight for more rights. ... The beginning of the movement in 1848 was marked by the Seneca Falls Convention, where its most prominent leaders Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony drafted a defining document of the women's movement, which was written in language parallel to the Declaration of Independence. ... Finally, amendment nineteen ended the suffrage movement, fifty years after black men were allowed to vote, women achieved t...

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Italy's political parties and leaders are put in three major groups: the Olive Tree, the House of Freedom, and those who are in neither. ... The two most popular parties that aren't with the Olive Tree or the House of Freedom movement are the Northern League, and the Communist Refoundation. ...

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According to Boston Globe, The people demand for more democracy, including the right to choose Hong Kong's political leaders without interference from Beijing. ... Another issue at hand is that in 2017, the people of Hong Kong are supposed to gain the right to elect their own chief executive, the leader of Hong Kong. ... For example, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, led by black Americans, to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the constitutional ame...

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Of all the blows to the Labor movement in the United States few have had the lasting impact and damage to the rights of working men as the Taft Hartley Act of 1947. Its passage represented a huge step backward for the movement that has never been fully recovered. No matter what the acts original intentions, which at best were to balance the power between Labor Unions and Capital, and at worse was an attempt to crush the labor movement altogether, The act has done much more harm then good prompting such activist as Ralph Nader to state that its repeal would be "one important step in restoring ...

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Shahi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Member of Parliament and a former Under-Secretary General of the UN discussed the rise in nationalism and nationalist's leaders across Asia. ... This is demonstrated through China where Xi Jinping has been the toughest leader China has had in the last 40 years through his aggressive anti-corruption movement as well as India's presidents constant messages of national pride and his shift of the military across the border. Both these countries political leaders were not afraid to assert control over domestic institutions and foster respect through f...

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For example, George Washington owned tons of acres of land, Robert Morris was the foremost business and financial leader, and all of the men possessed a cosmopolitanism, which separated them from the masses. ... Republicanism, an underlying concept throughout the Constitution, the division of power between state and national governments, and the complex system of checks and balances and divided power were all designed as protections against mass movement that might threaten liberty and property. ...

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As a result, people began to question the authority of the magistrate and what had made them special as religious leaders. ... In the turn of the 19th century, another revival movement spread through the nation. ... Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to that, the 1960s brought the Vietnam War, student rebellion, the hippie movement, flower children, recreational drugs, and the complete detachment of religion from politics. ... This is just how Martin Lu...

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In his final days, he made an extra effort to encourage the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan to make peace. ... Meles, the consensus around Africa is that Africa has lost one of its greatest intellectual leaders," said Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary for African affairs at the State Department (Gettleman). ... The United States and Ethiopia joined forces in late 2006 against the Islamist movement that had recently gained control of much of Somalia. ...

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Hammond, in the excerpts provided, wrote a commentary on another historians work, although, Hammond's work does not deserve to be discredited as a conservative backlash to a liberal movement. ... Pessen says that the democratic leaders were as wealthy as their Whig counterparts. ... Many historians have many different views on the Jacksonian democrats; Schlesinger believed the Jacksonians provided a political movement that has allowed the United States to triumph during a time of economic and social crisis. ... From the passages I conclude that the Jacksonian movement of the 1830's...

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Democrats where unable to over throw Republican control, but the progressive movement did change party organizations at all levels. Changes occurred in the reduction of the spoils system, established the secret ballot, and striped party leaders of their power to nominate party candidates. ...

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The socialistic movement goes against the aspirations of the American citizens. ... Therefore if the citizens of the United States do not want travel the road that will assure failure they must put an end to this socialist movement. The surging socialistic movement contradicts the very values on which the United States was established. ... As the United States has started to shift towards the socialist movement, they have had dramatic problems with the economy, such as the "Great Depression " and are currently in a recession. ... But as their government leaders weakened so did the economy, an...

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It took the hearts of many citizens, as well as courageous leaders, to help the blacks gain equality. Similarly, both countries had illustrious leaders who guided the Civil Rights movements. ... Both leaders demonstrated the perfect image of courage and perseverance; they never gave up, even when it seemed as if there were no hopes of ever achieving equality for the blacks. ... In both cases the reason for the creation of apartheid were the same, and both involved revolutionary leaders and revolutionary citizens. It is important to notice that the works of these people during the Civil Rig...

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It has been over ten years since Hugo Chavez first took power in Venezuela as well as becoming the leader of the leftist social movement and political process in Venezuela, The Bolivarian Revolution. The revolution is named after Simon Bolivar, an early 19th century Venezuelan and Latin American revolutionary leader, who was prominent in the South American Wars of Independence. ... Before Chavez came into power, being in the opposition was not a problem but once he ruled, anyone who was against Chavez being a leader, was thought of as a traitor. ...

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