The struggle between segregationists and integrationists, State of Arkansas and the federal government, and President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas became known as the "Little Rock Crisis." ... Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned a protest that would force the federal government to respond to and support the Civil Rights Movement. the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Morgan V. ... This order committed the federal government to enforcing the 1947 and 1960 Supreme Court rulings. ... The protests forced the federal government to acknowledge its responsibilit...

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Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... McKissack 57), and when Rutherford Hayes was elected, he retrieved all federal troops from the South, ending the Reconstruction era, and also ending the enforcement of civil rights (59-60). ... The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... The ideas before the Civil Rights Movement included racism and white supremacy, government apathy, and the will of African-Americans to rise from a slum of poverty and discrimination. ... Moving to governme...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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Between 1955 and 1968 acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between government authorities and activists. All levels of government local through federal often had to respond to these crises immediately and were forced to face the inequalities faced by the black Americans. ... The Masons were a self-selecting brotherhood who undertook civic and political activities to improve local communities and influence both state and national governments. ...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ... The decision from the Brown case placed the federal government on the side of those people who saw segregation as something bad and evil. ...

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The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the bl...

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From 1986 on wards, the US government every year on the third Monday in January, will be for the Martin Luther King Day. ... It was his peaceful struggle to maintain the "Declaration of Independence" and the freedom and equality of the fundamental values ​​of democracy and justice "Federal Charter", so that he and a few, like the president, is widely respected and renowned American people in American history. ...

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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 was free from oppression against people of color. These leaders were fearless, dedicated, well-spoken men who advocated African American strength and pride, as well as the unthinkable acts that were made against people of color during their time. Two main groups of the Civil Rights movement were...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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