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    it can cause unwarranted chaos. In the time of The Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks stood her ground of not giving her seat up to a white man. This situation led to the peaceful protest on Boycotting Buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Which contributed towards ending segregation in the U.S. The Boycott is considered peaceful because it main purpose solely to use the first amendment. Every one has the right to protest according to the Bill of Rights. The Boycott ended when bus segregation was seen…

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    The Civil Rights Movement of America has been known by most the period of history that blacks and other races have earned their rights to do the same and treated the same as the whites. However, it also was carried out by other types of people like the LGBT organization, disability rights, an immigration rights. Which they all had a big impact on the daily lives of others, a couple started to make the country lazier. To begin with the civil rights movement for the African culture, it had the…

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    United States of America, the Civil Rights are considered the rights that the inhabitants of the nation can enjoy by law, which are usually thought that they are the specific rights that can be guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America. For example, such rights as freedom of religion, press, speech and others. Since the Civil War (1861 – 1865), the hesitation about the Civil Rights in the Unites States was mainly focused on the extension of these rights for Afro-American…

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    Address, and is famous to this day. Although, it has been constantly overlooked, and challenged. During the Civil Rights Movement African Americans started to voice their opinions more persistently. African…

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    The sources stated that the media play major role during the civil right movement. They expose human atrocity in the South to all citizens of United States and because of that, reporter were often targets for assault by a klan or other racist groups. The sources also gave some major reports that the media covered during the civil right movement. The first major report that media cover was in december 1, 1955, it was on the mass boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This happened when James F. Blake,…

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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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    laws that they did not agree with be in effect, then there would be no civil rights for African Americans, sacred Native American grounds would be violated, and more. At age 42, civil rights activist Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She decided to sit in the section that was labeled “whites only,” and when she was told she needed to move to the back of the bus she refused. Parks was then arrested for civil disobedience, but her act brought attention to the fact that African…

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    Rhetorical Analysis Sojourner Truth, a black Civil Rights Activist, was born in 1797 and raised in a minefield of mistreatment and slavery. She ran away from the New York estate where she was enslaved when her owner failed to obey the New York Anti-Slavery Act of 1827. She spent the remainder of her life fighting against inequality and injustice. In 1851, Truth spoke at a Woman’s Rights Convention, advocating and sharing her ideas on equal rights between those of men and women, specifically…

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    injustice that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. There were many events that showed the injustice that hung over the United States in the 50s and 60s. These events, besides the Till trial, included the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Little Rock Nine, the sit-ins, and the march to Selma. Not only did these events show the unconstitutional ways in America, but they also showed the power of people. Whether good or bad, all the events that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement made an…

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    Americans. Blacks and Whites had to be segregated in public bathrooms, public places, public transportations, public restrooms, and public restaurants. It was a very hard time for African Americans because they couldn’t get jobs and they weren’t treated right. A lot of times they were met with violence even though they were doing non-violent acts. On February 1st, 1960, four African Americans sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store to protest racial segregation. They will sit…

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