The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. ... This struggle occurred before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, and it has impacted history through its events, its ideas, and its people. ... Washington, called by Boyer and others as "the nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s until . . . 1915," hypothesized that blacks could create social equality by achieving economic equality, and he also founded a vocational school in Alabama, now Tuskegee University (Boyer, et al. 716). ...

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This was a brave act indeed and literally started an entire movement that has changed the course of history for the greater good. ... This speech is one of the most famous speeches in all of American history. ... On September 15th, 1963 the civil rights movement took an ugly turn at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama when a bomb exploded killing four young girls. ...

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a campaign in 1955 and 1956 to get rid of racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. ... One angry mob in Alabama set a bus on fire, and when arriving in Birmingham riders were beaten. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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