Philip Randolph march on Washington movement and of course the Garvey movement. ... Like the slave revolts, the Garvey Movement, and the March of Washington Movement, it was highly organized. ... Philip Randolph, the leader of the movement, anticipated the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s when in 1943 he explicitly called for mass nonviolent demonstrations against Jim Crow laws, to model after Gandhi's passive resistance movement to India. ... The movement played a significant role in inspiring the formation of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 and brought forward famous nonviolent ...

• Word Count: 1967
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• Grade Level: High School

Because of the changes in segregation there were more successful musicians due to the Civil Rights movement. ... The Civil Rights Movement also changed the way people treated women. ... Women were also denied basic rights before the Civil Rights Movement, like voting and getting a job. ... He was also one of the greatest civil rights leaders and inspired both black and white people. ... The Civil Rights Movement had a big effect on the cultural changes in the 1960's. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... The Movement also brought about important non-legislative impact on the American people. ... Prior to the Movement, most Americans were oblivious to the problem of racism and prejudice. By exposing racial injustice and inequalities to the mass populace, civil rights leaders achieved what could perhaps not have been accomplished a few decades earlier: recognition. ... Although it occurs more often than overt racism, covert discrimination is hard to detect and is usually ignored by politicians and important political and social leaders. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 939
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Loyalty to local and religious leaders began to weaken, and alliance to kings grew stronger. ... Malcolm X, a strong Muslim leader, thought that you should fight back violence with violence. ... Today the party has dwindled and diminished to nothing, but its leaders are still going strong. ... Then leaders such as Malcolm X and Bobby Seal and Geronimo Pratt and Huey P. ... Nehru soon became a leader of the nationalist movement; between 1921 and 1945 he was imprisoned nine times by the British administration for his activities on behalf of India independence....

• Word Count: 1066
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• Grade Level: High School

This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. ... Washington was an educator as well as a reformer, and the most influential African American leader of his time. ... DuBois helped found a civil rights protest organization called the Niagara Movement. ... These two leaders, on the other hand, had many similarities as well. ... He also later in his speech gives another reference to John Brown and tries to depict a non-violent movement in saying, "We (Niagara Movement) do not believe in violence But we do believe in John Brown, in that inc...

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Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil right's movement, which began with Mr. ... Although the program was first initiated for positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation. ... The Bakke decision further reinforced the thriving white opposition to "reverse discrimination", but did not weaken the strength of the affirmative action movement. "You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying, now you are free to go where you ...

• Word Count: 640
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• Grade Level: High School

In particular two civil rights leaders stood out the mos,. ... The SCLC shifted the focus of the civil rights movement to the south where Martian was most comfortable. ... Elijah was a leader of the Nation of the Nation of Islam, this religion taught that Allah(the Muslim god) would unite black and white together. ... Now for the current times the effect of both these important leaders can be seen and felt around the world. ...

• Word Count: 559
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Although these leaders recognized that there was a problem, they strongly disagreed in their solutions to solving this problem. ... In the summer of 1905 DuBois founded an organization entitled the Niagara Movement. ... The movement, however, ceased to continue s a result of organizational weakness, lack of funds, and permanent headquarters or staff. ... White leaders loved Washington's speech in which all of his ideas were presented. ... These intellectuals went on to found the Niagara Movement that directly disputed Washington's Atlanta Compromise of 1895. ...

• Word Count: 1561
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book portrays her fight from when she was a small child on a plantation farm until she became a great civil rights leader in Mississippi. ... It shows life in a Mississippi town during the civil rights movement of the 1940's and 1950's. ...

• Word Count: 317
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• Grade Level: High School

The Black Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century pushed for and achieved different levels equality through its many prominent activists. ... The movement included passionate advocates for black equality such as Rosa Parks, Dr. ... He eventually contacted the group's leader Elijah Muhammad. ... He became a crucial leader for the NOI, as he inspired many blacks at large public rallies where many would attend. Eventually, he was assigned to be the prime minister and spokesperson for the NOI by his leader, Elijah Muhammad. ...

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Not only did the UNIA represent the largest mass movement in African American history, but with Garvey's vision, it also helped to inspire peoples of African descent around the globe to embrace a sense of pride in their shared African heritage. Garvey sought to create a movement that would result in an "Africa for Africans"." ... The more Garvey showed his face and delivered speeches the more people of black America began taking a liking to his movement. ... This is the newspaper that Garvey used to spread ideas and plans of the UNIA movement and keep members up to date with current eve...

• Word Count: 2365
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although it was not widely discussed for many years, it rose to the light with the rise of the Eugenics movement in the early 20th century. ... This was promoted by social workers of the time who helped push the movement to criminalize adolescent female sexual activity1. ... The second reason why they were targeted over other ethnic groups was that in the late 1960's and the 70's when this was going on the civil rights movement for Blacks had become very popular and powerful, so while previously Black women had been at the mercy of often racially motivated social workers and adm...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil right's movement, which began with Mr. ... Although the program was first initiated for positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation. ... The Bakke decision further reinforced the thriving white opposition to "reverse discrimination", but did not weaken the strength of the affirmative action movement. "You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying, now you are free to go where you ...

• Word Count: 1039
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Marcus Garvey was one of the most influential leaders of his time because he started the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocated black unity, preached self-reliance, and was the black peoples' spokesman. ... This was one of the "largest black mass movement in the nation's history."" (Haskins 31) This was the biggest unified black movement that was successful. ... Marcus Garvey was indeed one of the most influential leaders of his time. ... He was a civil rights leader that stood for his people- black people. ...

• Word Count: 1629
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• Grade Level: High School

The leaders of the twenty-first century, whoever they are, he states, must motivate, activate, and invigorate us for a freer, more stable America. He says: "We need leaders-neither saints nor sparkling television personalities-who can situate them- selves within a larger historical narrative of this country and our world, who can grasp the complex dynamics of our peoplehood and imagine a future grounded in the best of our past, yet who are attuned to the frightening obstacles that now perplex us...". ... Bell has in the past and continues in this text to see...

• Word Count: 866
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Everyday Use Everyday Use is a story about a poor African American family during the Civil Rights Movement. ... With the prominent black leaders during this time, blacks were able to have a different outlook on life. ... The African American community had their first real leaders, but some still did not know anything about these men. ...

• Word Count: 609
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• Grade Level: High School

While in prison, Malcolm read widely and developed an interest in the Nation of Islam, a Black Nationalist religious movement whose members were known as Black Muslims. Malcolm studied the teachings of the leader of the Black Muslims, Elijah Muhammad, who advocated an independent black state. ... His personal journey from petty criminal to spiritual leader was unique. ...

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Recent events which depict this movement are the solutions to the following racial conflicts: apartheid in South Africa, the American civil rights movement, and the treatment of aboriginals in Canada. ... In 1964, Nelson Mandela, the popular leader of the African National Congress, an organization to combat apartheid, was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the South African government. ... A major turning point in this struggle was the civil rights movement which occurred between the 1950's and the 1970's. During this movement, blacks were int...

• Word Count: 1377
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This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. This internal migration was important not only culturally, but also one, because of its encouragement of black assertiveness, as white politicians viewed blacks as a more powerful political presence; and two, because it stimulated a national movement for civil rights. ... In March of 1941, a black leader named Philip Randolph proposed a new civil rights strategy: a massive march on Washington D.C., in whi...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School

Led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the labors of civil rights leaders and followers continued to grow. ... The death of Jim Crow was not immediately observed after this ruling, but the victory was essential to the growth of the civil rights movement in the 1960's. ... For decades whites had successfully not speaking blacks from one another to prevent a massive movement. ... The cruel reality of white and black relations, racial labels, and everyday life in this movement still aches in the hearts of millions. ...

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Washington's approach was much to passive for Dubois, who led the Niagara movement in 1905 to oppose the ideals of Washington and to advocate public agitation for the rights of African Americans. ... Dubois debated furiously with the pan-Africanist leader of his time Marcus Garvey. ...

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Portrayed as both extremely intelligent and charismatic, Derek entices many young whites, to join the movement. ... As punishment for submitting an essay on Hitler's Mein Kampf for an assignment on a civil rights leader, Principal Sweeney ordered Danny to attend a daily history seminar with him entitled "American History X". ...

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Although they were a thorn in the black's side they fell in power when a KKK leader was jailed for the rape and torture of a young black woman. ... Blacks were also forced to live in the "ghettos" of cities.The northern states of the U.S.A still suffered from racism and segregation but not on the level of the South states.The Civil rights movement made a big leap forward when the Government made segregation illegal and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.These 2 events gave the Civil Rights 2 stepping stones towards the Civil Rights they so badly wanted. ...

• Word Count: 627
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• Grade Level: High School

They helped get a message across to many African Americans at the time of the civil rights movement. ... Langston Hughes was a leader in this battle of equality for all people, and he will be a role model for all people who are oppressed by society. ...

• Word Count: 615
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School