Many believed that the movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights act of 1965. ... Most of these practices came to an end with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ... The SCLC wanted to compliment the NAACP legal strategy by encouraging the use of nonviolent, direct action demonstrations and boycotts. ... It also gave the executive branch the power to enforce the act's provisions. ... After the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965 , the Civil Rights Movements began to move away from it non-violent roots. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1959, King toured India and further developed his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies, and met with many followers of Gandhi"s teachings. ... In response to Kings leadership and modern strategies, black college students initiated a wave of sit-in protests in 1960 that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... President Kennedy responded to these protests in king's favor by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which "placed greater responsibility on the federal ...

• Word Count: 862
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the 1960s, great judicial and legislative reform was made such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The civil rights movement was adopted to never allow systemic oppression for any human being and aimed to transform a tragic past and move towards a greater future. ... This act forced President Dwight Eisenhower to call for federal troops to protect the black students who were admitted into the school. ... This assassination was seen as a turning point as it helped awaken the administration which pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through congress. ... &...

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Although it started as a stage comedy act, it quickly spread nation-wide and became a character in shows and movies that white people came to assume of black African Americans. ... Individuals can undergo four strategies to deal with assimilation: separation, assimilation, marginalization, and biculturality. ... The school ecology model "suggests that school-based prevention strategies that include the entire school ecology in the prevention process are most successful in reducing the risk for substance abuse among young African Americans" (p. 149). ... Providing a linkage between the prev...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By a single act of courage she helped change the lives of the African Americans and America as a whole. ... This single act of courage sparked a revolution in many of the black and white communities of Untied States. Rosa Parks' spontaneous act for justice impelled the legendary Montgomery Bus Boycott. ... (Sanders, 2006) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was originally started as the strategy of nonviolent mass action to protest segregation. ... Rosa Parks created more opportunities for African Americans with a single act of bravery. ...

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The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... In the result of this act many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. ...

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(King p. 71) Martin Luther King even goes as far as to remind his fellow clergymen that in the 1940's Adolph Hitler did not act against any German Laws, but everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did was in fact illegal. ... (King p. 76) Following his release from jail, Martin Luther King, together with the SCLC, re- evaluated their strategies for direct action in Birmingham. ... The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ...

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(King p. 71) Martin Luther King even goes as far as to remind his fellow clergymen that in the 1940's Adolph Hitler did not act against any German Laws, but everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did was in fact illegal. ... (King p. 76) Following his release from jail, Martin Luther King, together with the SCLC, re- evaluated their strategies for direct action in Birmingham. ... The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ...

• Word Count: 1711
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• Has Bibliography
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(King p. 71) Martin Luther King even goes as far as to remind his fellow clergymen that in the 1940's Adolph Hitler did not act against any German Laws, but everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did was in fact illegal. ... (King p. 76) Following his release from jail, Martin Luther King, together with the SCLC, re- evaluated their strategies for direct action in Birmingham. ... The new strategy resulted in the removal of Eugene "Bull" Connor as Mayor as well as an agreement with the Birmingham business owners. ...

• Word Count: 1704
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• Has Bibliography
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Parks' act started a citywide boycott of the bus system by African-Americans that lasted for more than a year. ... King then deepened his understanding of theological scholarship after exploring Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change. ...

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Washington and Du Bois DBQ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black Americans poverty and discrimination problems at the end of the 19th and beginning or the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race th...

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• Grade Level: High School

The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... In the result of this act many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. ...

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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 him to me. Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towa...

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He wanted to ensure that the SCLC would act according to a careful, organized plan. ... With Levison and Bayard Rustin's help, King and the SCLC decided to pressure President Eisenhower about voting-rights laws and the proposed Civil Rights Act. ... The march did not persuade Congress to pass a strong civil-rights act, and President Eisenhower still would not meet with black leaders. In September 1957, Eisenhower finally acted to protect civil rights when the state of Arkansas refused to admit nine black students to Little Rock high school. ...

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The social conditions in which minorities endure are tough which makes them act a certain way. ... There should be a focus on balancing law enforcement strategies and demand reduction approaches emphasizing prevention and treatment. 2. ...

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African American Women tried to form different ways to enjoy America's pastime, they were ready to embrace basketball as part of their own culture and strategy to challenge Jim Crow and inequality. ... Will Pascoe stated that society has an impact on all sports, saying, "Sports can act as a mirror of society's values, custom, and culture....

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He took note of Mahatma Ghandi's non-violent strategy of social change during university. ... Kennedy reacting to the rallies and the attitude of Alabama Governor George Wallace submitted the Civil Rights Act (it would be passed in 1964) to Congress. ...

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World wide racism has been an issue, and still is. Many people have tried to solve this problem in many ways. One way that is common is influencing people through speech. A number of the speakers were successful and others unsuccessful. Martin Luther King Jr. was definitely one of the many very succ...

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The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using emotional strategies rather than ideology to persuade non-believers, and created a more accessible Christianity that the slaves could grasp and integrate into their own spirituality. ... In the public eye, slaves demo...

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Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the government to become involved to insure that school districts complied with desegregation policies by providing for assistance in helping schools comply, authorizing the attorney general to sue to obtain compliance and allowing for a cut-off of federal funds to any school guilty of racial discrimination. ...

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Conspiracy theories claim that a particular group acted outside usual norms in a rogue and generally secretive fashion (Michael Albert). ... This act of infamy is most notably known as the Holocaust. ...

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