Martin Luther King, Jr., who established a push to end slavery and inspired an entire revolution to eliminate racial discrimination, it seems that a successful eradication of racism is not an option. Today, we still see hate crimes such as the Rodney King case of Los Angeles. ... Whether it was Milwaukee, WI with help from Civil Rights activist, Father Groppi, or Martin Luther King, Jr. and his persistence in the South and in Washington D.C., it appeared that America was changing as a whole. ...

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Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist; he had led the Montgomery bus boycott, which was started by Rosa parks. As a result of Rosa parks not giving up her seat on the bus for a white man, Martin Luther King was elected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott by fellow members of the NAACP. ... Martin Luther king wasn't only an important person in getting the civil rights acts passed but he was also important in getting the busses desegregate. ... The achievement of the civil right is related to the success of the March on Washington, whereby Martin Luther King gave his speech. ...

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It was around the time that Martin Luther King Jr. became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. ... Martin Luther King became a strong voice for the rights of blacks. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... In the time that Martin Luther King lived most people were not oppose to the Civil Rights Movement, they just did not care enough. ... King's Civil Disobedience was so effective. ...

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Montgomery's new young Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr. was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the bus boycott. ... Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech. ...

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King had a dream that little black boys and girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and girls. ... On April 4th 1968, King was leaving his motel room. ...

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The Council was able to recruit clergy to lend their churches for mass meetings and was able to tap into a new minister in town, Martin Luther King, Jr., to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would coordinate the larger Montgomery Bus Boycotts. ... The Civil Rights Movement influenced them "to think radically about the personal worth and abilities of people whose role in society had gone unchallenged before," (pp. 100-101) as explained by Casey Hayden and Mary King in their memo "Sex and Caste" (Gosse, 2005). ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr., according to an article in the Global Nonviolent Action Database, "the protesters were polite and civil throughout, and after many hours of non-intervention, police arrested twenty-one protesters," [Dan11] resulting in national attention and eventual reformed legislation. ...

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In 1968, Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. Through her revelation of the tremendous amounts of racial discrimination and prejudice that African Americans faced in t...

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This statement, made by one of the Black Civil Rights movement's most radical leaders clearly shows an acknowledgement of the similarity between the group's, as he called for solidarity between the two groups in order to fight one larger cause, injustice-which, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, when present somewhere, injustice, "is a threat to injustice everywhere....

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Howard Zinn is a remarkable man. His diligence and ambition towards social change is very admirable. His book, You Can't Be Neutral on an Moving Train, is an autobiography about his experiences in several social movements and his intricate part in fighting for his beliefs. He chronicles his experien...

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Ever since the beginning of slavery, African Americans would sing praises and encouragement while working in the fields. 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. Many African Americans sang this song to show patriotism and hope for the future considering the fact that they were dealing with racism. There was a lot of symbolism within these lyrics, which allowed African Am...

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