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    The Civil Rights Movement led to several different problems and solutions like violence and even equality. After that incident with Rosa Parks, E.D. Dixon met with Martin Luther King Jr. and had organized a city wide boycott. Martin Luther King Jr. was young, so therefore, they decided to have him lead the boycott. But since King was new to the community, he had zero enemies; they thought that it would have strong credibility. The bus boycott was three hundred and eighty two days full of discrimination and violence. Soon King was jailed for violating his probation traffic ticket. King took many risks in the Birmingham campaign. A demonstration was organized. The Police had dogs and fire hoses towards the demonstrators. He was jailed…

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    Causes and Effects of the Civil Rights Movement By: Introduction The civil rights movement is a great thing it was when all african american people and white people became equal and they cained rights. Two thing violence towards african american people and segregation between black and white stating that white and black where different white people were better this is not true but they were taught this as a babys. This lead to the blacks and whites becoming equal and living in harmony. Violence…

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    Ahh… the civil rights movement, one of the best, but messiest moments in American history. African Americans were mistreated. They were left out or separated from white people on many fronts. If they didn’t obey the segregation, they would inherit the second problem, violence. Violence… is pretty self explanatory. After that, the government finally realized that this mayhem was too much. They changed the law, and the violence and segregation in the South came to an end. One cause of the civil…

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    Civil rights in America has been a problem for blacks, hispanics, and other non white races. The civil war was the bloodiest war America has ever been involved in and one of the main reasons it was fought was the argument whether or not slavery should be allowed in the U.S. The north didn't need slaves as much as the south so they saw no need for them but the south needed them for all their farming so they didn't want to give them up. After four hard years of fighting the north won and president…

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    History is a very interesting topic. Different opportunity’s happen because of certain events. People create different movements or just stand up for their rights or beliefs in which creates history. The Civil Rights Movement was a major part of history because that was the first movement towards equality. The causes of the Civil Rights Movement such as, Jim Crow Laws, Rosa Parks took the initiative, which started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in front of…

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    What is rebellion? The definition of rebellion is an action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention. In the civil rights movement, there are a lot of historical events that happen that shows people rebelling for a cause. For example Rosa Parks-New Spread and the Boycott of buses. For example in the book Red Rising when Eo and Darrow went up on the surface they got caught by the sliver Eo wanted Darrow to stand his ground. Like Rosa Parks Eo wanted to “break the changes”. The…

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    Throughout history, women’s suffrage and civil rights were both movements that had to be brought to national attention in order to produce the change that was wanted. At first, barriers and discrimination against women and African Americans made it difficult for a strong, successful movement to thrive. However, over time, both the women’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement were able to mobilize strongly and have major effects on policy. This was due to three different causal factors…

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    Sentence which includes your two causes and one effect The civil rights movement was a movement that was very helpful to many people.It made some the laws change.One cause was separation in addition violence was another cause.These things caused the civil rights movement. There were two water fountains and one was for african americans.If they used the other water fountain and someone caught them they would be punished.On buses there was a section for african americans and if the other…

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    CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN USA It was it the civil disobedience that won African Americans the civil rights? The civil rights movement in 1950’s was significant because it would bring equality to blacks and whites. Once slavery was abolished in 1863, there had been conflict between the two races that lived in the United States. The civil rights were based on the colour of one's’ skin. This essay about civil right movement in the USA will include Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks, the history on the…

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    Causes and Effects of the Civil Rights Movement By: Ava Mackie The Civil Rights movement changed lives for many colored people in America. You are going to be learning how hard it was for colored people. Read on to learn more. Discrimination was a huge issue in the 1960’s. According to the autobiography, Leon’s Story, the colored people would have to use cheap water fountains while, the whites got to use the fancy water fountains. Also, if a white person did anything wrong, hardly anything…

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