He was respected by both black and white people. ... Malcolm grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of violence done by people claiming to be religious (white Christians). The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in his yard, white people burned his house and may have killed his father. ... In his speeches, Malcolm always tried to make black people understand that white people were the devil. After following the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, he believed that the teachings of white Christians, brain washed all black people. ...

• Word Count: 2128
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• Grade Level: High School

It caused the United States to split into two separate populations .One population was made up of white people and the other population was the black people. ... The white community got whatever they wanted whenever. ... They thought white was right. ... So anything that was not white was threatened or destroyed. ... Not to many white schools were taking black people; therefore, by building black schools caused black people to continue there education. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He despised those crazed black people. ... Moments later, they saw a white Mustang drive away with the man inside. ... A week after the shooting, Galt's white Mustang turned up in Atlanta, Georgia. ... On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was ordered by a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger. ... He wanted people in the future to feel pain to sense pleasure, he wanted the people in the future to feel thirsty to sense the bliss of life, he wanted people in the future to feel to sense the delight of being full, he wanted the people to feel tired to sense the enjoyment of sleeping,...

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• Grade Level: High School

White violence against black Americans continued from the Klu Klux Klan. ... With the help of World War 2 white people in America became more accepting toward black Americans and majority of the white community supported the civil right movement. ... Montgomery bus boycott was important in getting the civil right act passed as not only did it create awareness about racial discrimination towards coloured people. ... Little rock nine was movement that started off a nine young black students going into a white school. ... The media portrayed white students as being racist and this meant people sa...

• Word Count: 1288
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since King was exposed to the Du Bois style of the civil rights movement this could be the reason for trying to get the white people to help his cause. ... He utilized black churches and appealed to white people to make the boycott successful (Garrow). ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ...

• Word Count: 1782
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Since King was exposed to the Du Bois style of the civil rights movement this could be the reason for trying to get the white people to help his cause. ... He utilized black churches and appealed to white people to make the boycott successful (Garrow). ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ...

• Word Count: 1781
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Since whites believed that black were unsanitary and smelly, when it rained bus drivers would deliberately pass black riders rather than have them on the same bus with "clean" white people. ... The boycott was originally scheduled for one day but when blacks saw empty buses they realized that they could accomplish anything if there was unity among their people. ... The carpool worked so well that the White Citizens Council had to admit that it moved with "military precision". ... After the letter she received threatening phone calls, people threw rocks at her house, and she lost many of he...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

By the time Rosa Parks was eleven, she was sent to Montgomery to attend Miss White's industrial school for girls. ... After Miss White's industrial School for girls closed in 1928, Rosa Parks began attending Booker T. ... One white man remained standing. The bus driver asked Rosa Parks to move so the white passenger would be able to sit. ... This single act of courage sparked a revolution in many of the black and white communities of Untied States. ...

• Word Count: 1562
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• Grade Level: High School

Just to name a few, the parents are similar to the white people who did not like the African Americans and the teenagers dancing represented the African Americans who wanted equal rights. ... In Footloose the parents relate to the white people in the civil rights movement. ... Whereas the white people who were enforcing the Jim Crow laws. ... The African Americans wanted to have the same rights as the white people. ... White people would attack and beat African Americans just because they thought they were bad people. ...

• Word Count: 1310
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• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther king acknowledges that this event is important to people because people have came from all over. He gives examples of where people have come from. ... "Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidence by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably band to our freedom." By saying this king wanted his audience know that not all white people felt the same way as others. They had white people on their side with them that day. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Was he bitter against the white man for the way they were treated? ... He praised the white people for their contributions of forming his country and his people. ... The same race of people that imprisoned him there in Alabama, he called their masters. ... Why, to prove to everyone that he is not anti-white or pro-black? ... This was the view of many white men in that day. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1963, Birmingham was a heavily segregated city and it was full of white supremacy groups. ... He then goes on to speak of his son who asked, "Daddy, Why do white people treat colored people so badly?... Finally, King addresses the fact that he was urging people to break "unjust" laws. ... King was very thoughtful with the people he referenced and quoted. The people that King referenced and quoted throughout this letter were people of distinguished back ground which helped to support his claims and gave him more leverage when defending his actions in Birmingham and when perusi...

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A white supremacists group murdered Malcolm Little's father as a result of his support for civil rights. ... Malcolm Little consistently achieved at the top of his class academically over his white classmates. ... Malcolm X told people at his speeches that white people would pay for their actions towards blacks through Allah. ... Malcolm X inspired black people to start their own businesses and to become a unified people through the values and teachings of Islam. The bulk of Malcolm X's widespread support came from his firm belief that all black people were just as important if not s...

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Similarly, laws forbidding sex and marriage between people of different races were ended. ... The Movement also brought about important non-legislative impact on the American people. It brought to the surface the amount of racism that existed in the country and initiated change from the heart of the people, not just politicians. ... When describing his high-school experience, Malcolm writes, "it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. ... The inaccurate media portrayal of vio...

• Word Count: 1470
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He spoke of methods to reunite the American people, black and white alike, and fought, whole-heartedly, for desegregation. ... He was, by his own right and merit, an American soldier fighting for his people. ... He was not fighting for the freedom of his fellow people, but fighting for segregation, in a manner of speaking. ... X was fighting for the full separation of the black and white communities. ... To live life well means a great many things to a great many people. ...

• Word Count: 1506
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" "Last Friday the warning was given that this is a year of bloodshed, that the black man has ceased to turn the other cheek, that he has ceased to be nonviolent, that he has ceased to feel that he must be confined by all these restraints that are put upon him by white society in struggling for what white society says he was supposed to have had a hundred years ago(X).... They both felt that the black man was still at the bottom in the eyes of the white man. ... He wanted the people and even the children to be joined together without people judging them by the color of their skin. .....

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With the pressures on the increase caused from the arrest of a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin on March 2, 1955, for denying her seat to a white person. ... During their discussions the idea of ending the boycott with a one day success until E.D Nixon spoke these words "What's the matter with you people? ... The MIA decided to let the people vote on whether or to continue with the boycott and it was a unanimous decision to move forward. ... Early in the boycott many white citizens took their part in providing transportation to and from work for their black employees, but quickly faded with ...

• Word Count: 1709
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By repeating the word "revolution" and following it with a definition, the crowds of white liberals begin to think it will really happen. ... By saying that a "revolution" is coming and that the white people can not do anything to stop it, instills fear in the crowd. ... Malcolm X says that all of the people in the world care about the injustice the black people are going through in America. ... He uses these authority figures to show that he might be an extremist, but he is doing it for the good of his people just as did the people he had quoted. ... He also explains how Negroes are dehum...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After graduating in 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree, won a prestigious fellowship and was elected president of his predominantly white senior class (History.com). ... On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (1913-2005), secretary of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. ... He had also become a target for white supremacists, who firebombed his family home that January. ... Arrested for his involve...

• Word Count: 1675
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The rationale was that the people would either not be able to afford the tax or they would lose their proof of payment by November. ... To Praise Our Bridges reveals how effective the White Power Structure of the South was at keeping blacks from voting. ... Dubois founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ... He went on to say that the practice of cross-town bussing and "Separate, but equal" caused psychological damage leading black people to feel they were inferior. ... Parks, a seamstress returning home from a hard day's work, was asked to give u...

• Word Count: 1907
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• Grade Level: High School

He had been cheated out of his farmland by a white man and couldn't support the family any longer. ... She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the row when a white person wished to sit in her row. ... As the boycott continued the white community fought back with terrorism and harassment. ... Glen Smiley, a white minister, shared the front seat of a public bus. ... I would like (people) to know I was not the only person involved. ...

• Word Count: 1975
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• Grade Level: High School

After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to apply plans, such as school-district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and faculty under one roof. ... •King has first shown his idea of a non-violent revolution, and then he argues that if the white community dismisses their actions, then it could cause a racial nightmare. By presenting the images of a violent revolution, he made his idea of a non-violent revolution much more appealing to the white audience. ... ...

• Word Count: 1513
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• Grade Level: High School

A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but the white mob forced them to go home. ... On December 1, 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man who asked for it. ... He put together marches and gaved forceful speeches to thousand of people. ... But the majority of the white middle class who believed in the equality of African Americans did not care strongly enough to do anything. ... That was Civil Disobedience main purpose to attract people. ...

• Word Count: 1562
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• Grade Level: High School

And aware of what White Americans were doing to Black Americans, "What is the Negro doing for himself?" ... "In the summer of 1963 a need and a time and a circumstance and the mood of a people came together." ... "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever." ... Two keys to the successful March on Washington were the involvement of the white churches and the absence of violence. ... Why We Can't Wait is written to America as a whole nation and not just to Black Americans or White Americans individually. ...

• Word Count: 1704
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• Grade Level: High School

And aware of what White Americans were doing to Black Americans, "What is the Negro doing for himself?" ... "In the summer of 1963 a need and a time and a circumstance and the mood of a people came together." ... "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever." ... Two keys to the successful March on Washington were the involvement of the white churches and the absence of violence. ... Why We Can't Wait is written to America as a whole nation and not just to Black Americans or White Americans individually. ...

• Word Count: 1711
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School