During the Civil Rights Movement many black artist and old Negro Spiritual songs became extremely popular during marches. One song that was sung a lot during the Civil Rights Movement was The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice And Sing by James Weldon Johnson. ... These civil rights songs sparked inspiration and hope for a generation. ... The thirteenth , fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments were made to give all dark and non white individuals their equivalent rights back. ... While African Americans were ensured rights amid the Reconstruction period, once it finished a large portion of t...

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Even though slavery was abolished for all, it is one reason why civil rights violations became a problem and after civil rights violations were solved, Employment Discrimination became a problem. ... Once the war ended the slavery was abolished, African Americans suffered civil rights violations. In the article "Civil Rights Act if 1964" by Everett Dirksen states that long after slavery was abolished blacks still did not have the same rights as whites. ... When Kennedy's election in 1960 promised advancement on the civil rights movement "enforcing the 1954 Brown v. ... Ho...

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Thus, while the Abolishment of Slavery of the late 1800's and the Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties may have diminished the impact that racism could play out in the open, these efforts have ultimately failed, to a great extent, in actually driving racism and discrimination to extinction because today, this toxic behavior is as prominent as it ever was. ... African Americans after the war enjoyed many civil liberties that their predecessors could only dream of. ... Citizens of America had noticed the failures of the past, took it into their own hands, and began the Civil Ri...

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The Civil War The Civil War The civil war was doubly tragic because it was completely unnecessary. ... However, upon the election of Lincoln as President, the southerners felt threatened, and felt their slave holding rights were being threatened, and in an effort to protect these rights they chose to secede from the union. ... Thus the Civil War began. ... While the civil war originally began as a quest to bring the southern states back to the union. ... African Americans endured these hardships for years to come, indeed until the civil rights movement in the 20th century....

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Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... For the abolitionist movement, John Brown was that symbol. ... The fact that a white man was willing to sacrifice his own life for the rights of millions of African Americans motivated people within the movement to work harder than ever before. ... He represents many of the ideas dictated by Thoreau in his essay on "Civil Disobedience," as he took any measures necessary to defy what he saw as an unjust law. ... In the same way that they sought to secure their rights from the British, John Brown sought to secure the rights of Afr...

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This lead to the Civil War because it angered Southerners that Slaves were escaping to the North. ... It leads to the Civil War because it opens many peoples' eyes about slavery and became a number one seller in the U.S., Britain, and France, causing an uproar in the abolitionist movement. ... Also, slaves don't have any civil rights. This led to the Civil War because the Northerners strongly disagreed with the result of the court case. ... This leads to the Civil War because states are seceding from the Union. ...

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He fought hard to pass amendments that would help bring equality to black civil rights and strongly participated in woman's rights. Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolitionist movement and equality of human rights. ... Fredrick could then continue to fight for black freedom and civil rights. ... After the civil war Douglass became the main voice of the African American race and worked arduously to gain proper black civil rights. ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolitionist movement and helped gain black civil rights. ...

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke led the fight for a place for women in the antislavery movement. ... The major cause of death in the Civil War was in both cases, wounded in action. ... After the War, the African Americans received more rights. However, questions arose, such as if they would guarantee the Civil Rights to former slaves, and if so, how would you. A Supreme Court Case limited the rights of blacks. ...

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Secondly, they both cared for women's rights. ... The last important point is that they were both vital participants in the development of civil rights. Fredrick was so important that he is often called the father of the civil rights movement. Maya Angelou decided to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (an African-American civil rights organization) raise funds and she then became the Northern coordinator for the SCLC's New York Office. ... The father of the civil rights movement and the renaissance woman were similar people with similar characteristics, yet they were t...

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In fact, in April, 1861 started the American Civil War, which ended with more than 500.000 dead men. ... Thus, the American Civil War begun. ... Little by little politicians were granting Rights, though nowadays there still are several prejudices and racist groups. The black movement obtained popularity and acquired political power and influences: "Hacia 1870, 86 de los 156 miembros de la legislatura del Estado eran negros y la mayoría negra subió a 106 dos años después" (Draper 43). ... The actions, political movements, books, discourses, etc that had been created thr...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. ... This decision was one of the many reasons abolitionists started their movement. ... The abolitionists simply wanted to extend the rights of freedom in America, and allow for fair competition in the lower class lives in the business world. ... Holden, a peace movement began in the state of North Carolina. ...

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It was passed by Congress in January and ratified by the states in December 1865, only several months after the close of the American Civil War. ... In December of 1865, just months after the close the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed and forbid the owning of slaves in all parts of the United States, fulfilling Lincoln's dream of equality for African Americans. ... This was the beginning of the African American Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was just one of many long-range effects of President Lincoln's Ema...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? ... Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. ... "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. ... Abolitionists in the north began a movement to end it. ... This attitude was considered music to the Souths ears since they wanted state rights anyway. ...

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Southerners resisted, and northerners eventually acquiesced to state's rights rhetoric, leaving African Americans the victims of state and national governments' refusal to enforce the legislation. 1 During the Civil War, Lincoln "freed" slaves in specific regions of the U.S. ... That was the time when bloody civil war was about to complete its 3 continuous year. ... From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. ... The acceptance by a large group of workers and farmers of the second class citizenship of the freed slaves spelled the doom o...

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(Parker 3) "The Civil Rights movement defeated many of the "external enemies of black progress" but it is now time for a movement to defeat their internal enemies" (Parker 3). ... David Horowitz, in a unpublicized paper on reparations, states that Americans have indeed paid reparations to African-Americans by giving their lives in the Civil War. ... Though I agree with Horowitz to an extent, would all those people have died during the Civil War if we didn't begin taking slaves? ... Because people do not understand reparations, the reparations movement will not progress. Much like myself b...

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TITLE From Anti-slavery Sentiment to Eradication; Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration SUMMARY The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. ... Civil Rights and the American Negro: Washington Square Press, 1968. ...

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The Civil war would not come to pass for another sixty years and there were few whites who opposed slavery. ... There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass and George Benson, brother-in-law of the antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for other civil/human rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Oprah Win...

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The Abolition movement happened in the 1800's to end slavery. ... After the Civil War began in 1861, abolitionists rallied to the Union cause. ... He devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and the fight for black rights. 3. ... Among her most memorable appearances was at an 1851 women's rights conference in Akron, Ohio: in her famous "Ain't I a woman?" ... Women in the Abolition movement Women played a strong role in the abolitionist movement, often breaking new ground for women as well as for blacks. ...

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Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest leaders of the abolitionist movement. The Abolitionist Movement fought to fought to end slavery within the United States well before the Civil War even happened. ... Frederick Douglass even served as an advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for black rights to vote and other civil liberties. ...

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While some northerners had felt that slavery was inhumane, after Uncle Tom's Cabin was published it helped to fuel the growing movement of abolitionists in the north, as well as further the already large gap in the different sections of the country. ... The south also felt that the north was violating the rights of the southern states, they said that the constitution guaranteed the south the right to hold slaves as they saw fit. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an event that lead to the start of he American civil war, because it sparked the abolitionists movement in the north. ...

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As well as being credited with winning the most important war in America's history, he is also considered to have abolished the institution of slavery and set in motion the Civil Rights movement. ... The practical maintenance of slavery was requiring an expansion of federal power and Southern "slave states", while advocating states rights, demanded federal intervention in support of slavery. ... Their reasoning was based upon the doctrine of states' rights, which placed ultimate sovereignty with them. ... However it took a bloody civil war that engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed...

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They thought the nature of the war for the North would now emphasize their rights with a president on their side who was making it so. ... All throughout the 21st century, blacks were still being discriminated and treated hardly any better than their ancestors from the Civil War era. ... In the years to come, the Civil Rights movement would become a burning topic that shaped most people's lives in the 50s and 60s. ...

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There was no civil war or Boer war. ... Protesters like Mandela led the way for Black voting rights but were largely unsuccessful due to the Afrikaans fear of giving up any type of power especially to the larger black population. ...

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Americans have been forced to deal with other forms of reparations that have enticed the slavery reparations movement to continue. The largest reparation-movement that the U.S. ... Third, and most significantly, any black alive today who alleges economic harm as a result of slavery -- whether related to a U.S. slave or not -- has had the benefit of 135 years of no slavery and 36 years of "reparations" already paid in the form of job quotas, racial preferences, and race-based targets and goals (since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964). ...

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Douglass, as a former slave, single-handedly redefined American Civil War literature, simply by redefining how antislavery writings were viewed. ... The country was being split apart on the issue of slavery, and it would eventually lead to the Civil War. ... He was a supporter of women's rights, and was actually present at women's rights conventions. ... This is exactly what Douglass's narrative did for Americans before the Civil War. ... Also, since we were on the brink of a Civil War, it was greatly important for Douglass to make his case known since both sides fighting we...

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