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    For Instance, the Civil Rights Movement Is one of the good example that was viewed very negatively by the worldwide. There was so many discriminations and harsh commitment to American…

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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…

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    The civil rights movement occurred during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout this period there were a variety of tactics used by the activists, including, non-violent protest, bus boycotts, marches, freedom rights and sit-ins. One of the most effective tactics used in the Civi Rights Movement were sit-ins. Sit-ins was a very peaceful way to protest. Students and other civil rights activists would "sit-in" at white only locations. The first people who would "sit-in" refused to leave unless they…

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    approach in regard of stopping the racism and storing black communities the rights they deserved. All these approaches grouped together into what now know as the African-American Civil Rights Movement, a hallmark in the US history that played a fundamental role in creating the freedom and equality enjoyed by most of nowadays African-Americans. In order to understand the African-American Civil Rights Movement, it’s necessary…

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    that has helped the movement the most (Brooks 229). CORE is responsible for heading up the March on Washington (Brooks 222). The march was to be a large nonviolent event to show that African Americans were still fighting hard to gain equal civil rights. (Brooks 221) (Brooks 2). CORE wanted to draw in even more African Americans to come to the march so they decided to expand the reasons as to why they were having the march. Instead of just wanting to get voting rights, they would be demonstrating…

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    The Civil Rights Movement is when all of the African American community joined together and fought for their equal rights. Some non African Americans also helped the African Americans, this changed the face of our country in one of the most important events in American history. Also The Civil Rights Movement took place from 1956 to 1968 in the south in the United States such as Georgia, Alabama, Washington DC, and also Maryland. The African Americans led marches and also made protests. The…

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    Rise of Nationalism: Civil Rights Movement Many events took place that took place in American history but according to me Civil Rights movement played a major in shaping United States. However, there were many goals but and many strategies to achieve that goals but the biggest goal was equal treatments and suffrage. In order to achieve these goals there were many strategies like Montgomery bus boycott, March on Washington, Freedom Summer etc. Civil Right movement started with Civil…

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    Maya Angelou was an American poet who went through three wars, segregation and racial discrimination, yet she has come to be known for her amazing poetry. Her works have influenced generations of people to stand up for civil rights and paramountly themselves. She began writing in a the Civil Rights Movement in the modern period where she worked closely with the movement’s leaders. Most of her works are a written in a style that expresses the experiences of her life as a black woman in a…

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    about what you are doing when it is right" acknowledged Rosa Parks. She is recognized as "mother of the civil rights movement" (imdiversity.com, 1 ) in America. Parks is mostly remembered as the woman who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. There after she set motion a National Civil Rights Movement for racial equality, and changed the course of American history. Rosa parks is a big part of history changing events because of all the heroic things she did and…

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    Now breaking this down, the audience comes to understand that the lyrics state they have the same things as any other white citizen (such as cars, homes, jobs, etc.) and can maintain these things because they too are American citizens. When asking for respect the audience can see it as seriously demanding for the racist whites to respect their fellow Americans, no matter the race, and demanding their equal rites in the unjust period of the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. Another artists that had…

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