Though these pieces of literature were written for different reasons and have many differences, they both in their own way bring attention to and shine light on how unsafe African Americans were during the Civil Rights Movement in America. ... The article explained how African Americans during this time period anticipated a change. ... Both developing the theme that African Americans were not safe during the Civil Rights Movement under the most optimal of conditions. ... The police are in existence to protect but in this time period they were not actively trying to protect African America...

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• Grade Level: High School

The ideas before the Civil Rights Movement included racism and white supremacy, government apathy, and the will of African-Americans to rise from a slum of poverty and discrimination. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)... However, in the past the KKK has been a continual source of terrorism against African-Americans, reaching back to their totalitarian control of the Negro vote in Reconstruction (Duncan 81) to brutal demonstrations in the 1960s; for example, the murder of Andrew Goodman and two of his associ...

• Word Count: 3013
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. ... First, drivers must treat African Americans with courtesy. ... Third, African American drivers must be employed on primarily black routes. With many African Americans using taxis or walking, the boycott turned out to be almost 100% effective. ... Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. ...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

• Word Count: 6336
• Approx Pages: 25