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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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. Martin Luther King launched the American Civil Rights movement in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. ... (King p. 23) The Civil Rights movement, led by the SCLC, began to first use martyrdom as a legitimate tool in 1963. ... (King p. 86) The introduction brought a new outlook and a new energy to the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention w...

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Why We Can't Wait History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. Martin Luther King launched the American Civil Rights movement in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. ... (King p. 23) The Civil Rights movement, led by the SCLC, began to first use martyrdom as a legitimate tool in 1963. ... (King p. 86) The introduction brought a new outlook and a new energy to the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once ...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. Martin Luther King launched the American Civil Rights movement in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. ... (King p. 23) The Civil Rights movement, led by the SCLC, began to first use martyrdom as a legitimate tool in 1963. ... (King p. 86) The introduction brought a new outlook and a new energy to the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention w...

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Ren stepped up and became the "leader" of the teenagers, representing Martin Luther King Jr. who was the leader of the African Americans in their protest for civil rights. ... In Footloose the parents relate to the white people in the civil rights movement. ... He was the leader of the teenagers. ... He was the leader of the African Americans. ... A bunch of the teenagers got together, with Ren as the leader, to try to get a senior prom. ...

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In the 1920's, the movement of people was toward cities. b. ... Under the progressive leadership of Roosevelt and Wilson, the federal government had passed laws to break monopolies, protect workers, and restrict the absolute freedom of business leaders. d. ... Coolidge admired productive business leaders. b. ... The most prominent new African American leader to emerge in the 1920's was Marcus Garvey. b. ... Although Garvey's movement died, his ideas did not fade. ...

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He was a great leader during the period of segregation. ... In the bible Moses was a leader who was the voice of the people. ... He went to government leaders and went against dominant groups and told to desegregate. ... This group but legal movement to the black community. ... The positive things that came out of segregation was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a great leader Dr. ...

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Several black leaders tried to turn the tide of racism in the south and they met with varying success. ... Dubois founded the "Niagara" movement which tried to unify black intellectuals tighter into one group. This movement failed largely because it did not appeal to the middle classes, and because it met with fierce opposition in white supremacy groups such as the KKK, which wanted to keep blacks in the lower, working classes. ...

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Forrest was their leader, a former Confederate General. ... They would rape black women, burn crosses, whip well-known black leaders, and ransack home which blacks lived in. ... Shady local governments and law enforcements only worsened the situation; however, in the 1950's blacks started a Civil Rights Movement. ...

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Their elected Grand Wizard, or leader, was a former Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest. ... With continued corruption by some of its main leaders, membership fell to about 30,000. ... In 1950, the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement resulted in the revival of the KKK organizations. ...

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Leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the charge for equal representation between women and men. ... The African Americans with the help of white folks who believed in the abolition of slavery sparked the Abolition Movement that had previously existed before the 1830s. ... In the 1840s, people like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman showed their impact on the abolition movement. ...

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The Radical Reconstruction movement was formed primarily in response to the policies of President Andrew Johnson. ... Another clause in the Fourteenth Amendment stated that former Confederate leaders would be prevented from holding federal or state offices. ... Radical leaders such as Thaddeus Stevens realized that blacks would have little hope in achieving economic independence without land of their own. ...

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Attaining Justice Prejudice, racism, and sexism have all been issues that have plagued the United States. These three issues all connect with the idealism of justice. Though each has a distinct meaning, they are interlinked by the struggles and hardships a common group went through to attain e...

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I have read about the Alabama governor George Wallace and his attempts of stopping segregation in Alabama schools; I have read about the Ku Klux Klan and their extremist views; I have read many literary works on the Civil War and the different points of view on what it was exactly about; I grew up learning about the Civil Rights movement and all those who took a stand for their rights; I have been taught the way life used to be when "the colored" and "whites" lived completely separate lives , and I have learned about the many protest and riots that filled my own streets decades before I was bo...

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