The long civil rights movement behind the act really took off after the Second World War and peaked during the late 50's and early 60's. ... The desire for equality in these aspects was the springing of political movement building that brought about important organizations and events, and eventually the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... In this essay I will discuss the long Civil Rights movement against discrimination that took place during WWII and continued into the 20th century. ... However, to the people during the march, Kings words were not just referring to desegreg...

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This struggle occurred before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, and it has impacted history through its events, its ideas, and its people. ... At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... McKissack 62)" Lastly, African-Americans developed a determination for progress during the Progressive Era, utilizing ideals from the minds of W. ... The people from before the Civil Rights Movement were widely variegated in their beliefs and contributed to the turmoil that gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement. Abraham Lincoln brought the nat...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of America in the 1960's by banning discrimination of people based on race, sex, national origin and religion. ... One of the most important events that also started desegregation was the Montgomery bus boycott. ... Because of the baby boom after World War II, the culture in the 1960's was very focused upon America's youth. ... The Civil Rights Movement also changed the way people treated women. ... He was also one of the greatest civil rights leaders and inspired both black and white people. ...

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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 astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... On the third day more than sixty people came to the store for the sit-in. ... The next big event that took place during the civil rights movement was the March on Washington. ... There wer...

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The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. ... The Kennedy Era, 1960 - 1963, saw many important events. ... It was during the Johnson Era that blacks gained most of their civil rights. ... Martin Luther King, Jr., was an important figure that worked hard throughout the 60's in order to gain black Americans' civil rights. ... The 1960's also had many other people that were important to the development of the civil rights movement. ...

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Medical breakthroughs were important in the sixties. ... During the summer of 1962, U. ... During the sixties, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force. With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ...

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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... From current point of view advocated by many people including myself, War was terrible mistake and it cannot be justified. ... During cold war world split into two blocks, each of them maintaining existing order and recruit new members. ... "In Vietnam, the last sustained war the nation fought, the United States spent $111 billion during the eight years of the war, from 1964 to 1972. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam W...

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During the 1956 presidential campaign Kennedy spoke on behalf of Stevenson and Kefauver in 26 states. ... Another important element of the campaign was the support Kennedy received from blacks in important northern states, especially Illinois and Pennsylvania. ... Kennedy sought with significant success to attract brilliant young people to government service. ... The major American legal and moral conflict during Kennedy's three years in office was in the area of civil rights. ... Public opinion polls showed that Kennedy was losing popularity because of his advocacy of civil rights. ...

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Both candidates were concerned about the growing violence that was in response to the war and the fight for civil rights in the country. ... Wallace, on the other hand called for a victory in Vietnam, this would be important and split the votes. ... During the election race, McCarthy would be most concerned with the war in Vietnam, calling it illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. ... His main points in his campaign would be, civil rights, poverty, and the war. ... Sadly, once Kennedy died, the people who fought for civil rights in America had no one to lead them in their crusade for equa...

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The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... This oath was extremely important because if America did not hold to this promise the worlds view on America could be forever damaged. ... No one has demonstrated of whatever size can win a guerrilla war- which is at the same time a civil was between Asians- in jungle terrain in the midst of a population that refuses cooperation to the white forces and provides a great intelligence advantage to the other side-(option 3). ... This war was guerrilla war. ... The war did not only affect the...

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With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for the first civil rights movement that occurred after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. ... Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. ... Through the work of the abolitionists before the war, civil rights water sh...

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It was not long before the media had the American people resenting the war and anyone involved in it. The Tet offensive was arguably the most controversial incident that took place during the Vietnam War. ... The United States is more successful during warfare with the support for the American people. ... One of the most significant aspects of the Vietnam War as a whole was the culture in America during the time period. ... The next two years would unsettle the entire country as well as the Johnson administration, but most importantly, the soldiers on the front line.8 With this resentment be...

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Politics played an important role of his growing up. ... His most important era in his presidentency (1963-1968) was his progress of Civil Rights for blacks. ... The American people were outraged by this increase. ... We assume that during those talks Hanoi will not take advantage of our restraint. ... What we won when all of our people united must not now be last in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of out people. ...

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Kerry, a veteran of the war, and Martin Luther King, a mature civil rights activist. ... King speaks of civil right unparticular. ... Potter raises the important question about "what the war has done for freedom in America?" ... There are students who are protesting for better educations, African Americans who are struggling for civil rights, poor people who are trying to abolish poverty and secure democracy, and more importantly there are faculty members who are questioning the importance of their institutions to the critical problems that our society is facing during this time (846). ... ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... Because of the youths' great desire to achieve a universal sense of peace and harmony, drugs were sometimes a very important part of one's life. ... s were controlled by the drugs and the drugs' effects than by the people themselves. ... Here people would just line the streets with drug use, sex, and wild music. ... During the several days of music, sex and ...

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Just like I know that during the same year that Julia first aired, Kennedy was assassinated, Dr. King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. All of this history was at one point present and occurred during the same times and all of them worked together v/s including Julia v/s in impacting their own significance and the world around it. ... She was there to please the white people. ... At the same time, I think it was imp...

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Although the policy was not introduced on a national level until the 1960's, the need to take positive steps to rectify discrimination's impact has been recognized since the Civil War. ... Following in Kennedy's steps, President Lyndon Johnson, would go on to establish the most important civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction. ... People of all races were divided upon the issue, as they still are today. ... Universities began to come under affirmative action during the 70's. ... However, some civil rights groups had recovered from the famine they had been put t...

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He was also the maker of its most important legislative achievements and a factor in its ultimate demise... At Cotulla, he saw poverty and hatred; later he said, "Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scares on the face of a young child"(Schulman 9) He never did, and during his Presidency he waged a nation changing "war on poverty." ... The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. Second, it developed a new "vision of democracy," during this time it developed pluralist politics. ... Combin...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or de...

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During World War II, at 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, PT-109, was hit by a Japanese ship in the South Pacific. ... Behind all of the political perks, Kennedy had a few hardships during this time. ... Once was during an election campaign and the other on a visit to England. ... The main purpose it served at the time was to create peace throughout many countries during the Cold War. ... Unfortunately, this plan was not a success because North Vietnam won the war. ...

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Janurary 20, 1961, President Kennedy stood in Washington, DC and addressed the American people. ... JFKs Inaugural Speech is one of the most important in American history. ... He speaks on topics such as international relations, American concerns, and freedom for all people. ... During the early Sixties, America was experiencing internal and external problems. With the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement at home and enemies being made overseas, the president had a laborious and intricate job to do. ...

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The people look to the president for guidance and direction. ... Schlesinger states that leading to the Korean War was the first major conflict that was conducted with no congressional declaration of war. ... Washington also placed important limits on the presidency, which was the Farewell Address. ... Truman believed he should govern in the name of the all the people at all times. ... " (pg. 223) Eisenhower felt that the people should choose and not the government. ...

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