Causes of the Civil Rights Movement Essay

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    began the civil rights movement. Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the woman who refused to give her seat to a white man, she played a small role in this larger movement. The movement involved peoples such as African Americans, organizations, and even whites as well. Without the unity of African Americans and the group of white males and females who supported this movement, the rights that we have today would have never existed. Although Rosa Parks became a symbol of the movement, the…

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    in jail for being disobedient, a peaceful boycott was created and lasted 381 days. Parks’s lawyer filed a notice of appeal. However, buses were integrated for everyone in the United States. Lastly, Parks became known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Personally, I feel like Rosa Parks really was a huge impact on America. For this reason, African Americans and Caucasians didn't have to diverge on buses. Before Rosa Parks put her foot down, Whites had reserved seats, and blacks…

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    Since the beginning of slavery, African Americans never had any type of rights or freedom. During the Civil Rights era, many African American activist were murdered by the organizations like Klu Klux Klan and other individuals. These people were murdered for trying to change the unjustful laws that didn’t give them most of the rights that were given to the white community. While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14 year old Emmett Till was brutally murdered for falsely accused of flirting…

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    and also to The Civil Rights Movement. The voice of the African American citizens cam in the form of sit-ins,, marches, boycotts and speeches. Though most with the intentions of being peaceful, most of these events turned sour. This was mostly due to police brutality or just other citizens acting out. Here are only a few aspects of significance the Civil Rights Movement has today. Throughout the 1960’s, freed slaves and African American citizens took a stand to gain their rights, even in the…

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    Luther King Jr. grew up in a time when most people in the country were either racist or prejudice. He had whit friends but his friend’s parents banned her kids from playing with him because he was black He is one of the main people that led the civil rights movement in the south. He gave great speeches across the country that moved many people. He was inspired by Rosa parks when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to the white person. he also helped star the boycott against the buses that…

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    The power of acceptance can neutralize or make current unpleasant experiences into positive ones. In Maya Angelou’s memoir All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Angelou moves to a small country known as Ghana in Northern Africa from America for her son to go to college, Angelou comes to find out her ancestor’s would not welcome her family with open arms. Angelou reveals her struggle of being neglected by her ancestor’s home country of Ghana due to the fact the Ghanaian natives have a bad view…

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    be made through acts of disobedience to promote progress. A well known, famous, and historical example of disobedience comes from Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement in the once British-ruled India. Ghandi’s defiance of British laws over the empires salt monopoly sparked a wave of civil disobedience that contributed to expelling the British empire.The British empire set tax laws on the production of Indian salt which lead to the country having to import British…

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    an ideal or acts to improve the lots of other, or strikes out against injustice, he sound out a tiny ripple of hope.” Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X sent hope to African-Americans throughout America for racial equality. Although both Civil Rights Leaders wanted to achieve racial equality in the United States, they had two very different approaches on how to do it. Dr. King’s message and tone in his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963 was one of hope and optimism…

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    be fearful of what you are doing when it is right"(Parks). Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a society because it makes people aware of the issue(s), educates society and makes a statement without harming others. Through peaceful resistance much more can be accomplished compared to using violent resistance or violent tactics. Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white gentleman is a prime example of how civil disobedience has accomplished so much…

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    Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, impacted the 20th Century by helping to initiate the Civil Rights movement, dismantling the Segregation Laws, and the founding of the Institution for Self-Development. At an early age Mrs. Parks faced many injustices wherever she went. This encouraged her to take action instead of sitting back and doing nothing. “She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter’s youth…

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