One antiwar tactic that often took place were teach- ins. ... The march was organized by a group called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. ... Some units even organized their own demonstrations to link up with the movement at home. ... There was also an organization called Women Strike for Peace, or WSP. It was also put together in 1961 and was started by a children's book illustrator, Dagmar Wilson (DeBenedetti, 54). ...

• Word Count: 1263
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• Grade Level: High School

One antiwar tactic that often took place were teach- ins. ... The march was organized by a group called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. ... Some units even organized their own demonstrations to link up with the movement at home. ... There was also an organization called Women Strike for Peace, or WSP. It was also put together in 1961 and was started by a children's book illustrator, Dagmar Wilson (DeBenedetti, 54). ...

• Word Count: 1263
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After home schooling, she attended Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and then Booker T. ... "It took place on December first when she got onto the bus, rather than walking home. ... This took place for 382 days. ... When the bus boycott took place this was quit! ... It also sponsored an annual summer program that was called Pathways to Freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1727
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• Grade Level: High School

After he completed his junior year at Booker T. ... King wrote a book about the Montgomery boycott. His book is called Stride Toward Freedom. ... A white mob surrounded the church where the rally took place, and the participants could not leave until about six the following morning. ... In the aftermath of the agreement, white extremists bombed King's hotel and his brother's home, igniting riots by blacks. ...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: High School

His mother, Emma, was always ill, having to spend much of her time away from home. ... He yearned to be in some place both more colorful and more kindly than Sauk Centre (Schorer, 5). ... At work on his third novel, Sinclair Lewis was offered $1000 by the Saturday Evening Press for his story called "Nature, Inc."" and following that, he was offered a total sum of $3000 for 3 more. ... In contrast, though, the more that people fixed their opinions on him, the more they became united, buying his book by the tens of thousands. ...

• Word Count: 898
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ... He also attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and Booker T. ... Because of his high scores on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. ... The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scott's home in Marion, Alabama. ... People that know the man called James Earl Ray says he stayed out of trouble as a child, he skipped school here and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She lived with her grandmother who she called "Momma Henderson". ... (mayaangelou.com, 2015) Married to Tosh Angelos but the marriage did not last long, Maya found herself enjoy the independence of doing what she felt passion about rather than staying home as a housewife. ... (King, 1994) New York City was the only place for a black writer to be in the 1950's and 1960's. ... For the first time in history, Maya Angelou's book became the first non-fiction best-seller by an African American. ... The book was banned in many schools during that time since Maya Angelou was really ...

• Word Count: 962
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• Grade Level: High School

That was called Segregation. ... A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but the white mob forced them to go home. ... In 1957 and 1960, two federal laws called the Civil Rights Act were passed. ... The charismatic reformer Marcus Gavey called for racial separatism and a "Back to Africa Colonization Program". ... Rather it was a dispersed, grass-roots campaign that attacked segregation in many different places using different tactics. ...

• Word Count: 1562
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He received second place in a speech contest. ... Several of the whites" violent responses forced action to take place. ... In 1958, he published his first book that is called Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. ... (book reviews) Jon Meacham 01/19/98 Newsweek, Page 62 January 6, 1964, was a long day for Martin Luther King Jr. ... I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: High School

He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. ... A movement was needed because of the unfairness and discrimination by sex in the work place. ...

• Word Count: 4042
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• Grade Level: High School

King's and Abernathy's homes were both bombed, along with his Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. ... If arrested, a new group would take their place immediately. ... As each group was arrested a new one would take its place. ... It was called the "Sacrifice for Dignity." The students in attendance then formed an independent organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to lead in the effort. ...

• Word Count: 6511
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• Grade Level: High School

That night, after the boycott, while attending the first of many meetings that would take place at Holt Street Church, thousands of blacks decided unanimously to continue the boycott until some permanent changes were made. ... After the letter she received threatening phone calls, people threw rocks at her house, and she lost many of her personal friends. ... Nixon's home, fortunately no one was injured. ... The homes of two black leaders, four Baptists churches, t...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: High School

In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... A secret society called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had been organized to uphold this white "supremacy-. KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ... King's network began to fall into place. ... With this in mind, he began his first book "St...

• Word Count: 3558
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• Grade Level: High School

In the month of June 1953, the first major battle of modern civil rights movement took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where blacks successfully carried out a mass boycotts against that city's segregated bus system. ... 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. ... Although, this movement established about 30 branches throughout the country, it gained little ground since money to...

• Word Count: 1967
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• Grade Level: High School

Indeed it was not common to call a slave other than by his first name or as boy". ... But the so-called Reconstruction period failed, although Blacks were now called citizens", they still had no civil rights. ... They used threats, burning and lynching to keep the black man in his place". ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious leader...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School

The two men were working towards the same goals as Cone explains in his book, but in different manners. ... If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place. ... Louis Farrakhan called him a "cowardly hypocritical dog" who "is worthy of death." ... Cone also quotes King's wife, Coretta, who said King saw her as a "homemaker" and expected her to be "home waiting for him." ... Malcolm called women "tricky, deceitful, and untrustworthy flesh." ...

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Fred Shuttlesworth called a meeting of local ministers and community leaders at Sardis Baptist Church and the ACMHR was founded. ... King's philosophy of nonviolence described in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom. ... Shuttlesworth served as minister at First Baptist Church in Selma until 1952, and the following year he was called to Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham. ... Fred Shuttlesworth called a meeting of local ministers and community leaders at Sardis Baptist Church and the ACMHR was founded. ...

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He was gifted and because of that he skipped the ninth and the twelfth grade of the "Booker T. ... They suffered terrorist telephone calls and threatening letters from King's opponents. ... They were called "Freedom-Riders", and their goal was to end the segregation at bus terminals. ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School