The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. ... Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. ... Washington, called by Boyer and others as "the nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s until . . . 1915," hypothesized that blacks could create social equality by achieving economic equality, and he also founded a vocational school in Alabama, now Tuskegee University (Boyer, et al. 716). ... From this era sprang the circumstances under ...

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The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... But he was also well aware of the fact that the movement towards this aim depended upon the good will of the ruling Whites. ... They chose King as their leader. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious leaders at home and abroad. ... King and other civil rights leaders, like Philip Randolph and Roy Wilkins met with president Eisenhower, with no results. ...

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Blyden was one of the leaders of the Black Nationalist movement in the late nineteenth century, and was an advocate of free Black emigration back to Africa. ... The Indian Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam was one such group that modified orthodox Islam. ... Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, the first known European-American convert to Islam, acted as a spokesman for the movement in America. ... Turner makes a point of bringing up Garvey because black leaders of new American Islam were heavily influenced by Garvey's Pan-Africicanist ideas. ... The Moorish Science Temple was the first religious...

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In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. ... Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in Ameri...

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Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... As the civil rights movement intensified during the early 1960's, Baldwin became an active participant. ... He soon became well known as an essayist, publishing in the New Leader, Commentary, and Partisan Review. ... The Black Muslim portion evaluations Elijah Muhammad as a charismatic and disciplined leader who refuses to accept the white world's definitions and therefore threatens its power...

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I think apologies from the government should also be broadcasted live in order to aware all American's of our past, and to truly try to capture the sympathy of the leaders of our nation for the past actions of their predecessors. ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was the first political movement to equality; in 1863 it proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten rebelling states. ... The black codes were aimed at stopping the movement of equality in the "de jure" sense, demonstrated by the vagrancy laws which saw homeless unemployed black Americans arrested and fined. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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