HISTORY ASSIGNMENT-CHARLES PERKIN AND THE FREEDOM RIGHTS Mr Charles Perkins you were an activist‚ bureaucrat‚ university graduate‚ a soccer star and a secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. How do you do it. Thank you for coming today. No‚ it’s my pleasure. So Charles‚ let’s start off with your childhood. Can you tell me about your past‚ up to the Freedom Rides? Well I was born in a town called Alice Springs‚ in a compound called the Alice Spring Telegraph Station aboriginal reserve
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The late 1960s marked a slow down in the progress of the civil rights movement. Whereas‚ previously organisations such as the SCLC had played a vital part in progression‚ through non-violent techniques‚ there was no longer any such strong leadership. President Johnson attempted to overcome some of the problems in the North by proposing several bills‚ which had varying degrees of success for several reasons. Originally he had hoped that his 1965 Voting Rights Act would alleviate some of the racial
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evf Mrs. Zbegner English Compare and Contrast Essay October 16‚ 2013 There are many similarities and differences between the different stories of the people who had to fight for civil rights‚ or their place in society. Rosa Park’s “My Story‚” and Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s “In My Place” are two stories that share some of the same qualities and style‚ but also differ in other aspects such as their content and theme. Both authors tell their story about fighting
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According to the law‚ civil rights are something that everyone is granted. However‚ history has shown that this has not always been the case. In the United States‚ civil rights are supposed to be for all people. Throughout history‚ there have been many disagreements in the Civil Rights Movement. One group who shared a negative opinion about the advancement of black people is the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan opposed equal rights between whites and blacks and used violence to show their opinion.
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MIBURN was the Codename of an FBI case in 1964. MIBURN is short for “Mississippi Burning” which is also the title of the director Alan Parker’s movie from 1988. The movie is occupied with the occurrences from the original FBI case and gives us a general view of what was happening. However‚ that might not be as true as we think it is. According to “The Guardian” the movie is not very political and historically correct. Actually‚ the writer of the article’s exact words was: “The Mississippi burning
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Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement‚ originating in the African-American community‚ that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial profiling‚ police brutality‚ and perceived racial inequality in the United States criminal justice
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1877 saw the end of Reconstruction in the USA with the situation of African-Americans looking to be more positive as they had just gained the right to vote in 1870 with the 15th amendment and gained equal protection under the law with the 14th but still suffered terrible amounts of discrimination in the North and the South. The ‘Black situation’ in 1900 was that the legal‚ social‚ economic and political status of blacks was inferior throughout the USA‚ especially in the South. One way in which you
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A hero can be anywhere. A hero doesn’t always have to be born with superpowers or have a cape attached to them. Some of the qualities that heroes share is making others happy. They don’t think about themselves but others. A hero is made of courage‚ hope‚ and teaches a valuable lesson to others. A hero inspires others to be great‚ and a hero can say something positive and it lives on. A hero is someone who steps up when everyone else backs down. To be considered a hero‚ they could affect someone who
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At the Black Matters Conference‚ I had the opportunity to see an interview with Lezley McSppaden‚ the mother of Michael Brown who was a victim of police brutality. During the time period of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power movement police brutality was always an issue. Today we see that this issue is most cases has not yet been solved. Although in the earlier years it consisted of a lot more violence. For example‚ police officers helping out white rioters by supplying weapons‚ using
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Mississippi Burning Paper Movies‚ everyone has seen them and they play a huge part in our world today. Much of our entertainment comes from movies‚ along with our understanding of historical events. It use to be that we received our knowledge from books and more credible sources‚ but now an emerging age of ‚ well for lack of a better word "laziness" has resulted in many people receiving their history from Hollywood. Now there is a fine line when it comes to Hollywood credibility‚ simply for the
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