At the very beginning of the movement, although some student leaders were arrested after the break-in of Civic Square, the movement became decentralized and ongoing in an orderly manner. ... Another example is that Liberal Party Leader James Tien was expelled from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after his call on CY Leung to resign. ... Since the very beginning, there was one group of protesters demanding further upgrade of the movement, while the political and student leaders insisted on negotiation. ... All these failures by the student leaders have dissatisfied t...

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The Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks; Two well-known people involved in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The movement overturned Jim Crow Laws, which divided whites and blacks. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. ... The civil rights movement was a struggle, which led to many protests. ... Some leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr. helped to bring people together in love and harmony, helping to make all people equal. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement is the movement of the 1950's and 1960's to win equal rights for all African Americans. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... It was around the time that Martin Luther King Jr. became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Civil Rights Movement had a big and lasting impact on the U.S society. ... In the United States, the most outstanding theoretician and practitioner of Civil Disobedience was Civil Rights leader Dr. ...

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Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as violence and death. That movement was the Civil Rights Movement. ... The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... They took the advice of nonviolence from a great leader named Martin Luther King Jr. ... There were many leaders who helped contribute to the success of the civil rights movement. ...

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The source shows little improvement between these years and hence it does not prove that the movement was achieving. ... But if the success criteria of the movement were mainly to desegregate education, then this photo would prove that the barriers are beginning to be broken. This suggests that the movement is beginning to achieve something. Source C is an extract from Martin Luther King's 'Chaos or Community', although it is written by one of the leaders of the civil rights movement it gives a balanced picture by commenting on the successes of the sit-ins, 'freedom rides&...

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(About MLK Nonviolent Social Change, 2014 The King Centre) King's method of non-violence epitomized the most important aspects of the civil rights campaign, bringing about massive international cover to the movement and establishing his place as an emblematic and influential leader. ... It was in this environment that Martin Luther King was enabled to become one of the most powerful and influential leaders for nonviolent social change in the civil rights movement. ... Whilst other leaders at the time, including Malcolm X, chose to implement extreme measures to advocate for freedom, such...

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The 1950's Civil Rights Movement Differences and/or Similarities The 1960's Civil Rights Movement ~For the "50s, the decade began largely in 1954 when the organization NAACP dealt with the Supreme Court in cases such as Brown vs. the Board of Education, in which it was declared that, "separate educational facilities were unequal and therefore unconstitutional." ... People who would soon play the most important roles in society during the Civil Rights Movement were just popping up in the "50s. ... This group, the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, or the SNCC, were later t...

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In order to obtain a clearer image of the theoretical framework of the movement discussed in the present paper, one has to first be familiar with the meaning of a collective movement. ... Now, these individual reactions are what make the observers shift their attention from the movement's principles to the individual's behavior and associate it with the movement. ... The movement's protest consisted of marching and food providing (McHenry, 2012: 97). ... Another dimension of an all-volunteer movement is their commitment. ... This could be one of the reasons why Food Not Bombs d...

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The protests that closely followed uncovered, arguably the greatest activist leader African Americans had ever seen. ... Kennedy was assassinated, he was a strong supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and this may have contributed to the reasons why he was assassinated. ... Although his death marked the end of a great leader, others are still carrying on his "Dream-. ... She not only changed the way of life for those black people in Montgomery but set the wheels in motion for the huge Civil Rights Movement which followed. ... Montgomery Bus Boycott' In unknown textbook,...

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The leaders of the capitalist class saw the role of the FICCI as 'national guardians of trade, commerce and industry', performing in the economic sphere in colonial India the functions of a national government. ... The leaders of the capitalist class saw the necessity of, and felt strong enough for, the class to effectively intervene in politics. ... By the time the third decade of the twentieth century began Sarkar argues that the bourgeoisie first encouraged and supported the nationalist leaders, Congress and Gandhi, to start the Civil Disobedience Movement to gain a better bar...

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One important leader who contributed to the Montgomery Bus Boycott was Martin Luther King Jr.. ... "They formed a secret group called the Montgomery Improvement Association and elected Martin as their leader.... This was the second event that led to the civil rights movement. ... King and other civil rights leaders from across the country organized a march on Washington DC. ... The speech explained the basics of the civil rights movement. ...

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Civil Rights Movement Many events happened during the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Civil Rights Movement occurred during the late 1950s to the early 1960s. ... African American leaders organized the March on Washington D.C. to build support for the civil right movement. ... The march was to testify the long struggle in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The years 1955 through 1963 marked the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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People like Mahatma Gandhi, the Boston Massacre and the Civil Rights Movement civil disobedience to be heard and to change the course of history. ... Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian independence leader who started the protest of British rule in India. ... Lastly, the final example of civil disobedience is the Civil Rights movement. This movement was the protest and riot of African Americans that are living in America who want equality and respects with decency. ...

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He is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. ... The movement that King led swept all that away. ... He pursued his dream of spreading the civil-rights movement to other cities. Overnight, he found himself the leader of an awakened people. ...

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One of the main leaders of the movement for the defense of the right civiler and important defender of the not violent resistance to the repression racial. ... The boycott of Montgomery was an evident victory of the not violent protest and King arose like a leader very respected. Consciences of it, the black clergymen of all the South founded the south Christian Conference of Leaders (SCLC), being chosen King their president. ... However, at the beginning of 1967, King had associated the leaders of the movement against the war, independently of its color. ... Martin Luther King wa...

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The protests that are shaking the country have no known leader, but are comprised mostly of citizens in their 20's who are outraged at almost everything going on in the country - from the state of the economy to the war in Afghanistan to environmental issues. ... "It's difficult to classify a social protest movement early on in its history. ... Although the crowd seems all but violent, many of the protestors vow that they not only want to see Wall Street fall, but they want to see its leaders suffer a fiery fate. ... The movement is even getting recognition from celebrities. ... ...

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(January 15, 1929 -1968 on April 4), the famous leader of the American civil rights movement. 1948 graduation. ... In April 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Memphis, after the strike leaders, was assassinated at age 39. ... He was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. ... Tablets, he explained the original intention of the American civil rights movement, hopes and dreams, refuted all the accusations of the civil rights movement. ... Later, in August 28, 1963, mass demonstrations culminated in the "march in Washin...

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The civil rights movement started with things like the Plessy vs. ... Now at this time Martin Luther King started to become a leader in the movement. ... I think that during the 1950's many people only viewed the civil rights movement as political and didn't give it much thought. ... The 1950's proved to be fairly passive but did pave the way for the civil rights movement to really gain the respect it deserved. ...

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Most white Americans wanted to stay uninvolved because the civil rights movement was portrayed as an "unholy- mess. ... However, many local black leaders opposed King's intervention. ... The local Birmingham papers tried to suppress the movement by putting the stories of Birmingham within the paper. ... It was one of the most pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement. ... He tells the leaders of the community that he wanted change but was unwilling to use violence because when violence is present there is an absence of love. ...

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Martin Luther King was an American religious and civil rights leader who achieved many great things in his life. ... His involvement with the church influenced his approach to the civil rights movement and he based his non-violent ideas on Christian teachings of love, goodness and forgiveness. In USA during the 1950's and 1960's Martin Luther King was the main leader of the civil rights movement. ... The leaders of the organization urged blacks to refuse to use the cities buses; this eventually led to supreme courts decision outlawing discrimination in public transport after a ye...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preacher and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ... Edgar Daniel Nixon, then leader of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), spoke with Parks, telling her that hers was the case that would launch a massive boycott. ... By the end of February's second week, the sit-in movement had spread from North Carolina to Virginia. ... Many of them would become leaders of the southern civil rights struggle, including John Lewis and Diane Nash. ...

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As prominent Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. became a well-known and effective social activist, beginning the process of leading a revolutionary civil rights movement that extended across America.... His impressive ability to excite and motivate others to join his cause played an important role in the success of the the civil rights movement - culminating in the end of legal segregation in the South as well as many other areas of the United States (T,Booker). ... King traveled the country making speeches and inspiring people to become involved in the Civil Right...

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the African American Civil Right Movement. ... As leaders, they were both well supported, which reveals that people support leaders who help them support their own human rights. People support leaders who brings them equality. ... People support leaders who aim at helping the low classes. ... The passions that leaders have also affect citizens' human rights because it shows the leaders' abilities to govern the nation. ...

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He and other African-American community leaders felt a protest of some kind was needed. ... King went on to lead the Civil Rights Movement on other issues in other cities. ... The blacks had won a major victory in the civil rights movement. ... Parks became a leader and member of many movements and groups. ... Her response to being called "the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" is modest. ...

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Gandhi completely disagreed with the young generation leaders Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru. ... In this movement of non-cooperation Gandhi had created the National Congress. ... During this non-cooperation movement Gandhi was very reluctant to give up his view on civil disobedience. This ignorance of civil disobedience at Chauri Chaura, where twenty-one policemen were killed, greatly hindered Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, because instead of ending with a positive influence 3 this movement didn't prove to be much at all. ... Any idea or movement that Gandhi ha...

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