The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. ... When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than ...

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It was an ongoing, coast to coast effort demanding freedom and equality for African Americans who had been denied many basic American rights. ... By the end of the decade African Americans were given the full rights as all other Americans and thus began the adjustment to the changes the Civil Rights Movement brought. ... On February 1st at 4:30 pm four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a whites only lunch counter inside a Woolsworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina and requested to be served. ... This speech is one of ...

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One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ... americans became aware of the dangers they encountered everyday and would perhaps hand down to their children. ... she envisioned beautification all over america. ...

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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. ... Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. ... The four students - Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair, Franklin McCain and David Richmond - were in their first year at North Carolina A&T College. ... By the end of February's second week, the sit-in movement had spread...

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Malcolm X and King no matter how American society depicts them are more than just figures of hate and love respectively. ... However, he realized that blacks in the North had voting rights, but were in even worse economic and social condition than southern blacks. ... These articles work with the thesis because it proves Malcolm X is not known and is pigeonholed as hateful and evil, which shaped America's perception of him. ... As Martin Luther King became recognized he was known internationally as an American Gandhi. ... Malcolm X and Martin Luther King analyzed the roles that differ...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. ... With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. ... This organization condemned institutional structures and in their view have made the American society corrupt. ... Malcolm later formed his own organization called Afro American Unity. ... Malcolm felt that if black peoples could not use ballots to be free, like black people in the south or those in the north whose right...

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(January 15, 1929 -1968 on April 4), the famous leader of the American civil rights movement. 1948 graduation. ... He was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. ... Malcolm love Vieques's concept of self-defense and black nationalism aroused sympathy north, the force exceeds urban black gold made the call for nonviolence. ... It was his peaceful struggle to maintain the "Declaration of Independence" and the freedom and equality of the fundamental values ​​of democracy and justice "Federal Charter", so that he ...

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., (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. King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. ... Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. ... They had stood together as American blacks had never before stood together. ... S...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. ... I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased in busses. Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to surrender her bus seat to a white person. ... During the summer of the year 1961 som...

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Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. ... There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. ... King addre...

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His vision of a just and equal society where race would be transcended fired the imagination of many Americans. ... On February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College (now University) demanded service at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro and continued to sit after their demands were refused. ...

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Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push for equality. ... First, drivers must treat African Americans with courtesy. ... Third, African American drivers must be employed on primarily black routes. With many African Americans using taxis or walking, the boycott turned out to be almost 100% effective. ... It brought about new support for the Civil Rights Movement in America and in the world. ...

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