The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. ... For example the Montgomery bus boycott and black power made a huge impact as it helped reduced segregation for black Americans. ... Most black Americans had accepted racial discrimination, but the War made a huge impact as most black Americans wanted change. ... In order for black Americans to travel they rode bicycles, walked. ... That Montgomery bus boy cut was an event that could arguably be the key Turing point in the civil right movement...

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King grew up in a two-story Victorian house located in "Sweet Auburn," the centre of black Atlanta. ... It was the time of segregation of blacks and whites. ... He was separated from one of his only friends, a young white boy whose parents despised blacks But this did not make King grow hostile. ... While alive Martin Luther King Jr. did many things to change United States' laws and improve the rights of blacks. ... While King was trying to spread the message of nonviolent action and love for social change, Malcom X's black nationalism and self-defence ideas related more with urban ...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Since whites believed that black were unsanitary and smelly, when it rained bus drivers would deliberately pass black riders rather than have them on the same bus with "clean" white people. ... Whites who supported black citizens were where treated harshly by their own. ... On the other hand, the abuse that Blacks faced was much more severe. ... White teenage boy would drive around and hurl objects such as eggs, potatoes, and apples out of their vehicel windows at black pedestrians. ... The homes of two black leaders, four Baptists churches, t...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Malcolm X's speech "The Black Revolution," he is addressing to a group of white liberals about the oppression blacks have gone through and what it will take to provide racial equality. ... Malcolm X says that all of the people in the world care about the injustice the black people are going through in America. ... In his letter, Martin responds to the claim that his actions are untimely, by using the emotional memories that the blacks have gone through and put up with. ... Martin gives a personal experience when he has to deal with the "hate-filled" authorities "kick[ing] and kill[i...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin, though controversial in his own time due to his homosexual writings, became a leading black commentator on the suffering and abuse of his people in the United States, which he believed symbolized universal conflicts. ... He felt as though he was "too black" as well as isolated, and all of these insecurities constituted for his leaving Switzerland after only two weeks (Als 141). ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unusual depiction of a coming-of-age story of a fourteen year old boy, John Grimes. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School