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    5. What contribution did Thurgood Marshall‚ Rosa Parks‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ SNCC‚ CORE and the SCLC make to civil rights? The contribution that Thurgood Marshall made on civil rights was a significant one. Marshall First was a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as the NAACP. He directed the lawsuit that demolished the legal foundations of the Jim Crow segregation. As well as this‚ Marshall as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and

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    slavery in 1865‚ but African Americans didn’t start gaining equal rights until 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement. The African American Civil Rights Movement aimed to eliminate all racial discrimination and segregation in America and demonstrated throughout Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of the Bees. In America‚ African Americans were not only treated unequal‚ but looked down upon to the majority of whites. The Civil Rights Movement was from 1955 all through 1968 and was carried out through both

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    which evolved into a powerful movement. King was influential ....with his effective non-violent approach towards racism. The followers of Martin Luther King held demonstrations including marches and sit-ins‚ they demonstrated their point across peacefully. Martin Luther King has proven himself as a visionary that drastically changed and revolutionized (avoid generalisations)the world. His actions have impacted the world. His strategies pushed the Civil Rights Movement to accomplish their needs. (this

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    two children‚ James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley. Parks was a Civil Rights activist‚ and most known for being arrested in Montgomery‚ Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)‚ and served as secretary by 1943. In the year of 1932 Parks married Raymond Parks. Mr. Parks was a Barber and also active in the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair Department

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    They had protested peacefully for ten years and nothing had changed. John F Kennedy had been killed. The blacks figured they had nothing to lose so they just started protesting in the country’s major cities. At the time of the riots the Black Civil Rights movement was breaking into two groups‚ Martin Luther King and followers that wanted to have a good place in American society and to do this needed the co – operation of whites. The other side began black power and felt they couldn’t rely on white people

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    Assess the effectiveness of the non-violent tactics used in the African American Civil Rights Campaign. The African Americans were very successful in the way of demonstrating non-violent tactics in the same way Gandhi had used in India in the 1920s. Martin Luther King admired this example of Gandhi’s non-violent tactics and advocated a program of civil disobedience that used these methods. These included protests in the form of boycotts‚ demonstrations‚ sit-ins and marches which includes the famous

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    American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations. Rosa parks is a civil right activist and she isn’t going to give her seat to a white person on a segregated Montgomery on a Alabama bus. She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP she is the chapter secretary. Rosa worked closely with chapter president. Sensed she refused

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    mistrust and animosity into‚ what might have been considered by the majority of people as a coherent movement with set political agenda and well-thought out objectives. By taking a closer look at the most important Black performers that were shaping the future American society this paper will try to portray not only the major cleavages within the respective groups but also the reason why the movement shifted from non-violent sit-ins to more assertive and aggressive ways of advocating their claims.

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    The Civil Rights Movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968‚ was one of the most important times in American history. With activities‚ protest marches and boycotts‚ organizations challenged segregation and discrimination. The Movement happened because not all Americans were being treated in the same way. In general white Americans were treated better than any other American people‚ especially African-American people. The Civil Rights Movement made the country a more fair and humane society

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    Joel Benavente Period 4 05/17/13 Civil Rights Movement The primary theme of the Civil Rights Movement was that African Americans‚ in particular‚ and minorities‚ in general were human beings. The African Americans felt no different‚ no better‚ or worse than the whites in America. As human beings‚ African Americans were called on to dire in times of war‚ called on to pay taxes‚ and called on to do various other services. The argument was that skin color was not a disability

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