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    Alan Lomax's Blues Music

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    Throughout the civil Rights movements, protestors used song to expressed their rights. Civil Rights leader Marthin Luther King Jr. and his fellow Negro brothers and sisters used songs so their cries could be heard. As a Bapstist minister King could not sing any music, because certain musics were considered as the “ devil songs” (Wright 155). Some songs that were part of the movement were, “ We shall over come “ , “ Oh freedom “, “ we shall not be moved”…

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    The civil rights movement played a crucial role in the emerging production practices and self- understanding of network information workers— the makers of news, documentary, and public affairs programming—during the 1950s. During the time, TV news was figuring out what it is going to be. Civil rights was important to TV because not only did it provideTV journalism with much needed vivid pictures and clear-cut stories, but more importantly, it also gave TV the opportunity to define itself,…

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    The 1950 's were the start of the Civil Rights Movement that ended in the 1960 's. This movements ' goal was to bring equality to everyone. The nation was "torn apart by racial, political, social, and cultural clashes." In the town of Oxford, North Carolina the Tyson family and a few other white families supported the civil rights movement while the majority opposed the movement and the black equality that would come with it. White supremacy was a major belief in the South back then and…

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    Diversity In Art

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    population, a minority of its members, garner success because of their skin color and gender rather than their actual talent? Action and innovation have been the elements necessary to progress art itself forward and develop truly worthwhile art movements. Social activism, not only in the industry but by the artists themselves, is needed for change to happen to break down the barriers of preconceived thought that we have before us. We need to understand how the perpetuation of stereotypes only…

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    Rights Movement, the previous lesson was on the Great Depression and the next lesson will be on the Vietnam War. This lesson plan fits in with the other lessons because the Civil Rights Movement was an important social movement that happened after the Great Depression. The Vietnam War was a historical foreign policy issue that was happening abroad at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. This lesson is of great importance because the Civil Rights Movement was one of the most significant social…

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    Human curiosity has led to both positive and negative innovations for civilizations around the world. Throughout America’s history, oppressed groups have tried to accomplish certain goals using certain means of innovations and movements. Between Feminism and Civil Rights movements, they each have wondered what could be done to better their lives. Feminism’s roots began in the 1800s from the curiosity of what life would entail in a world where women could divorce their husbands, and where they…

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    Title: The Civil Revolution Do you ever feel helpless to protect you rights in society for the reason for who you are?The civil rights movement movement inspired many others and yet they were different and that same for other reasons. Their rights are limited in society and have gone through many objectives to state their rights that they have now and are proud that they change their appearance in society to a common individual nowadays.Not everyone is guaranteed the rights that we hold today…

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    Black studies is the study of African peoples in their current and historical unfolding (Karenga). It came about during the Civil Rights Movement to establish a people as one and to create a discipline of study that was unheard of. Not only was this study unheard, but it did not exist. The European views of History have been taught for centuries—even to this very day. The truth about Black history and culture had been hidden and dismissed from society until people fought to make it something…

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    The Civil Rights Movement began in the 60s as a backlash against racially unfair treatment and attack on the oppressive forces that caused this treatment. Through sit-ins, marches and many other form of peaceful protest the Civil rights moment was able to grow and prosper. The Civil Rights movement evolved the most between the March on Washington in 1963 and protest against the Rodney King verdict in 1992 as a result of the creation and growth of the Black Panther Party, a group that attacked…

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    Emmett Till’s death was one of the most fundamental and tragic events in American history. Many believe it even helped jumpstart the civil rights movement. In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, was brutally beaten to death after being accused of whistling and flirting with a white woman. Till’s beaten and consequently unrecognizable face flooded media networks. The whole world was able to see the consequences of racial brutality and racism in America. This video informs the public about…

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