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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The south on the other hand, considered all slaves to be property, and gave Africans very few rights. ... The slaves, as property, had almost no human rights in the eyes of the Southerners. ... Although the major confrontation, the United States Civil War was not until 1861, the events of the seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century started the movement to end slavery. ...

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The conflict for reparations first emerged at the conclusion of the Civil War, when President Andrew Johnson reneged on Union Army Gen. ... The latter amendments ban slavery except for punishment for a crime, and they also line out the rights of citizens. ... Moreover, we are no longer in the dark ages of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement where lunch counters, schools, restaurants, water fountains, and bus seating were segregated by race. ...

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Abraham Lincoln did many things as president such as help in the Civil War, deliver many important speeches and letters to try and unite the Union, but he is most importantly remembered as the president who freed the slaves. ... But the Confederates were not happy because they believed that Abraham Lincoln was taking away their Constitutional Rights and they knew that they needed slaves in order to help their economy and crops flourish. The South disliked Lincoln and wanted to succeeded from the Union because of his decisions thus causing the Civil War.  ... Lincoln was not even alive when th...

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