This movement's success inspired many other social movements, including the Women's Liberation Movement. ... It will be discussed that the Civil Rights Movement influenced the Women's Liberation Movement in four key ways. ... By educating and fostering leadership, Baker helped members to see themselves as potential leaders – regardless of race or gender. Although she was an influential leader, Baker was limited by her gender to become a formal leader. ... Links between the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement attracted women to the Women's Mo...

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a leader as a person who has a commanding influence or authority. ... As roommates in college Bradshaw and David Willson discussed what contributions they could make to the Negro movement; hoping together to lead "peoples to the things- they "felt were right for them- (177). ... A leader is someone who leads or guides others, regardless of quantity. Therefore leaders should be named so not by the number followers they have but by the vision they try to reveal. ... As roommates in college Bradshaw and David Willson discussed what contributions they co...

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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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Working diligently with great, influential black leaders, Robinson and the group she led help organized a boycott that started a civil rights movement that would last a decade. ... "[ Stride Toward Freedom, p.78] Many believe that the arrest of Rosa Parks is what started the Montgomery bus boycott and the movement for civil rights, however, contrary to popular belief, it was not. ... Blacks were ready to protest, however they needed something to spark the movement. ... Black leaders were thrown in jail, fined and harassed up until their case reached the Supreme Court were segregation was ...

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The intellectual commitment became the foundations of his actions as a civil rights leader. Just as King's commitment to nonviolence was based on the teachings of Jesus, so the rest of his participation in the civil rights movement was grounded in his Christian faith. ... Then those people introduce him to their leader, who is Elijah Muhammad. ...

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A leader of the Black arts movement, Baraka's numerous plays, poems, and essays inspired a generation of black folks to stand up because it was nation time (black Nation). ... Baraka dominated the black Arts movement in the late 1960's both as a theorist and artist. ... The Black Art movement was not only important to the Black National movement, but for other minority's art movements. ... Amiri Baraka was the leader of this movement. ... While Harlem Amiri was considered to be the leader if the Black arts movement. ...

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Nikki Giovanni, better known as the "poet of the people" wrote in hopes of influencing the Civil Rights Movement and the women's movement. ... The Ladies" Home Journal magazine gave her an award at age thirty, "some black leaders said Giovanni should not have accepted an award from a mainly white organization. ... Though Nikki gave most of her time, energy, and money to the Civil Rights Movement, she couldn't let the opportunity for her to take part in the movement for women as well. ... Her childhood also had a role in her wanting to be a part of the women's movement. ... She a...

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He was a leader and he learned from his past experiences that made him who is today. ... They had a dominant personality and symbolized odyssey and civil rights movement. ... Gaines is a leader of what he believes in that must be told. ... In 1978 he wrote In My Father's House about the Double life of a minister and civil rights leader. ... The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is well over one hundred years old lady that relates a personal history that spans the time from the Civil War and slavery up through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. ...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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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It took the hearts of many citizens, as well as courageous leaders, to help the blacks gain equality. Similarly, both countries had illustrious leaders who guided the Civil Rights movements. ... Both leaders demonstrated the perfect image of courage and perseverance; they never gave up, even when it seemed as if there were no hopes of ever achieving equality for the blacks. ... In both cases the reason for the creation of apartheid were the same, and both involved revolutionary leaders and revolutionary citizens. It is important to notice that the works of these people during the Civil Rig...

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However this war brought the black community closer and saw the rise of groups such as the Black panther party and various other black leaders. ... As Kumasi put it "they turned around and squashed those movements" killing or incarcerating all the leaders and exiling the lucky ones (Crips and Bloods, 2008). You take away the leaders and the movement and destroy any hope of gaining equality, and then you have hopelessness and rebellion. ...

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An increasingly assertive opposition movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won and that favoring members of one group over another simply goes against the American grain. ... Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. ... Blacks, whose leaders strenuously but unsuccessfully resisted sharing the Voting Rights Act with Hispanics, will not need to be convinced of the wisdom of restricting affirmat...

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The Boers were, at this stage, loyal to the British empire and it was not until the Jameson Raid, in 1895, that a Boer nationalist movement gained prominence. In Great Britain, the British leaders were under pressure to liberate the British in Transvaal. Negations were organized between the leader of the Boers, Paul Kruger, and a British representative, Alfred Milner. ... The British supported these landowners even though they were staunch supporters of the republican movement. ...

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Making Race and Nation In the book Making Race and Nation by Anthony Marx, he compares the development of three different countries which were major active members in the slave trade late into there development and into the modern era.. Marx compares South Africa, Brazil and The United State...

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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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Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. ... His father was a baptist minister and an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist leader of the 1920s who preached that all blacks should leave the US and go back to Africa. ... His gang "career" ended when he got into some trouble due to a bet with the gang leader. ... I also believe that he set the civil rights movement back because he "un-did" everything Mr. ...

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So its leader, The President, is considered the most powerful position in the world. ... White voters didn't have to vote for a "regular " black leader like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. ... After describing her drive through the red graffiti, pale brick walls, idle storefronts, and young black men congregated n front of a tattoo shop in South Central Kaplan says, "The distance between all of this and Barack and the new way he is supposed to be showing us is frustrating there has been almost no acknowledgement of grinding sameness, non-movement, hope gone slack. ... Here again I agree wit...

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Such people as Tom Metzger, Terrible Tommy, Leon Degrelle, Alex Curtis, and Shane McCormick, publisher of Hammerskin Press and leader of Hammerskins.com, view themselves as superior. ... Shane is twenty-five years old and has been in the movement for about nine years. ... How can we be a real racist movement on the outside if we don't show support on the outside. ...

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This is where he changed from a religious leader to something more of an equal rights or human rights activist. ... Other black leaders for civil rights would talk down to Malcolm and his followers because they hated white people, and wanted them to fight for civil rights. ... He had many personal troubles also bothering him, such as when his younger brother Reginald was silenced and removed from the Muslim movement. ...

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As soon as Paul was born he was faced with adversity, he would be born into a neighborhood that didn't house that many blacks and the political ideas of the town leaders were not always in-favor of blacks. ... Paul became well known overseas and even befriended several leaders of the labor movement in Britain and become close with other "intellectuals" of the country (p125). ...

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Roosevelt is thought of as one of the country's greatest leaders, a wonderful humanitarian. ... And yet in this final poem, even after the civil rights movement had peaked, Hughes is left feeling worthless. ...

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The apartheid governments influence on the African leaders of the various Bantustans to create customary laws and norms that would essentially lock in their migrant workers to returning the Bantustans by forfeiting the communal land occupied by migrant workers should they not return to their homelands .Since many migrants had families living in these lands they where unknowingly forced to go back to the Bantustans in order to preserve their claim of land occupation therefore creating a cycle of temporary migrancy and Bantustan living (Wolpe,1972,436). ... These forms of control where ever...

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