Despite jeopardized jobs, intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. ... During this contact, King gave a speech at a meeting held in Durham to coordinate more sit-ins. ... King was held for being in violation of the terms of probation for and earlier traffic ticket. ... In the aftermath of the agreement, white extremists bombed King's hotel and his brother's home, igniting riots by blacks. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 w...

• Word Count: 3309
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

They could not eat at lunch counters, register in motels or use whites-only rest rooms; they could not buy or rent a home wherever they chose. ... KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To keep Blacks from registering to vote, poll taxes were raised, comprehension tests were held and the grandfather-clause was put into practice. ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... Although many Blacks were arrested or violently harassed and King's home was dynamited, the boycott was successful after one year and a few weeks. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious ...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

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 re...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

• Word Count: 2726
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus coming...

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• Grade Level: High School

"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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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about him to me. Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towa...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School