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    avoid the public transportation. Anyone who helps with the carpooling might as well be dead to society. They become outcasts for siding with the "negroes." One day, Odessa decides that she wants to join the carpool. She genuinely believes it to be the right thing to do, therefore, she signs up to be a driver. She begins carrying more and more black people to their jobs every…

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    Why Rosa Went In Jail

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    Rosa got on the bus, and she sat in the white section. Then, a white man got on the bus and he wanted Rosa’s seat, but she refused to get up. So the bus driver said “If you do not get up, I will have you arrested.” So Rosa said said “You may do that.” So the bus driver had her arrested. The police took her in their custody. They put her in jail for 2 days. Before they put her in jail, they asked her questions about the case. She said that the reason she did not get is because she was tired and…

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    union activity (Smithsonian para. 5). Out of his policies and promotion of boycotts, he gave farmworkers a sense of dignity and the right to fair wages. However, today, his success in the 70’s that capitalized the improvement of workers’ lives to a limitation on the now-bottomless labor pool is overshadowed by the availability of “low-wage, marginalized, and exploited workers from Mexico and Central America” (The Atlantic para 24). Although many of his victories in the ‘70s were short-lived,…

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    Rosa park became a hero, activist and an inspiration to others, not only to those of colored but those who are white, red, yellow and black. Right along side her Martin Luther King Jr. who was an american Baptist activist during the Civil Rights Movement, he also was an inspiration to many, he help make this world a better place. All he wanted was ¨one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and…

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    Why Is Malcolm X Unfair

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    Using all forms of media is a quick and easy way to express ideas and beliefs. King quickly caught the attention of the media. King understood that TV could spread the news about civil rights struggles throughout the nation (Carson). Martin Luther King Jr. used the media to get the word out about the struggles of civil rights that are happening at the time. People show and support their beliefs in many ways. King was arrested along with many of his supporters after his campaign to end…

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    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 to get congressmen to pass the Civil Rights Act (Wexler 178) (Brooks 228). President Kennedy was not a strong supporter of the March on…

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    business with him at all. In addition the United States had its fair share of boycotts. Furthermore the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 when African Americans fought against Racism with words and not with fists. African Americans fought for their human rights so that they will finally be treated equally like any other white person.…

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    was one of the first, large organized events that 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…

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    and put 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…

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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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