At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... [and] Republicans prepared to dismantle the black codes (Boyer, et al. 503)." ... Ferguson, and blacks were persecuted once more. ... 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). ... America's first black man to earn a Ph.D. ...

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He is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. ... A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to white woman. ... KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ... Being a minister not only put King in touch with the spirit of the black masses but also gave him a base within the black church, then and now the strongest and most independent of black institutions. Bus Boycott Montgom...

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The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. ... (Kluger) This was still a victory for the NAACP, which made a name for itself as a key group in the effort toward black and white equality. One the most gruesome events that headed the Civil Rights Movement was the vicious murder of a young African American boy named Emmett Till. In August of1955, a fourteen year old, African American boy went to visit his relatives in the town of Money, Mississippi. ... Forty thousand pamphlets were printed and passed out among the members of the black commu...

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In the US, Blacks were a minority, making 10 to 20 % of the population. ... Blacks finally accepted this picture conveyed especially by the white press. ... Indeed it was not common to call a slave other than by his first name or as boy". ... They used threats, burning and lynching to keep the black man in his place". The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ...

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Perhaps this was the first sign of a boy who would indeed grow to become the incredible man his was known as these many years following his death. ... Over the years King, Jr would rise through the social ranks of his local black community to eventually become a household name around the country. At the height of King's popularity, his words and his actions had a profound effect on the black population. ... The economy of Montgomery struggled without the bus fares, which for the majority came from blacks. ... This was an enormous win for King and the black population as a whole, and alt...

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