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    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 Birmingham, Alabama. These causes led to the effect, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which called for segregation all over the nation. Segregation is the separation of humans in racial groups in daily life.…

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    During the 1960s, the Civil Right Movement was led mostly by Martin Luther King Jr. However, the Civil Right Movement started in 1954 with the case of Brown v. Board, which declare the segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Later Martin Luther King Jr. ended segregation on buses by leading a boycott in Montgomery Alabama in 1957. Martin Luther King Jr. alongside with the four major non-violent activist groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent…

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    brotherhood.”(brainyquotes.com) People of our nation have worked and aspired to find great leaders and workers, but many say no one can be as great as Martin Luther King Jr. We always look back on him for great ideas and remember that he fought for equality for all people.Many faces come together for this fight, but all come together to fight as one community. King, an inspiration to all, a man that wanted to…

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    and refused to be given the same treatment as white citizens. Racial inequality has been an issue ever since the 1800s. With nothing being done to prevent racial segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped in and decided that the civil rights of African Americans would not be denied any longer. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent approach was effective in gaining equal rights and inspiring future generations of African Americans to stand up and fight for what they believe in the form of…

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    Summer Zito Mrs. Fetchko Honors English III 26 April 2018 Rhetorical Analysis Essay On August 28, 1963, on the Lincoln Memorial steps, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his opinions about the equality of African Americans at one of the biggest civil rights rallies ever. Over 250,000 people listened to King in Washington D.C. at this event. This civil rights leader played a monumental part in leading to the downfall of segregating African American’s while providing a source of inspiration for the…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. He held peaceful movements from 1954 up to his death on April 4, 1968. Mr. King had four kids in his lifetime with his wife, Coretta Scott King. While three out of the four children are still alive today and spreading the King name. One of the movements was the bus boycott. In december of 1955, Rosa Parks, decided to not sit in the back of the bus and got arrested.…

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    arrested. In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to give their seats to white riders if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was full. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts…

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    Martin Luther King had a dream of a community of which color of skin was not a problem and how people were viewed or able to live their lives. Actually, his insight in society has changed people's point of views so much, that anybody that has gone to school in America has most likely learned about Martin Luther King. People in school are taught about his popular “I Have a Dream" speech, and we have a better comprehension of his influence in Civil Rights in America as a whole. Martin Luther King…

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    unjust laws which Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohamad Gandhi would later follow. Gandhi was also arrested for government protest against unjust laws and his motivation to continue to stand up for his beliefs stemmed from reading Thoreau’s essay. (The Power of Peace) Eventually, Gandhi helped India win their independence from Great Britain (bibliography.com) all because 1 man took a stand and wrote his thoughts on what he believed was unjust and what was not. Martin Luther King Jr. also took a…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King continues to be recognized as a spokesperson and additionally as the leader of the civil rights movement in 1954. Moreover, Dr. King proved to be actively against violence, and consequently throughout the civil rights movement he acted through tactics of nonviolence. Through utilizing nonviolent tactics amid protests against the south’s segregation, there proved to be an increase in media coverage. Thus, King…

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