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There are many historical moments in history where there is racial inequality present. Slavery will always be a moment in time when people could see just how cruel African American Families were being treated by white people. Slavery was a time period in which Individuals Specifically African Americans were brought at auctions and used as tools by slave owners. After the civil war President Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation. This meant that “all persons held as slaves are and henceforward shall be free” this only took effect for confederate states only. After the civil war ended in in 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a man who goes by the name of John Wilkes Booth. This led to congress ratifying the abolishment of slavery …show more content…

The civil rights movement was a movement in which African Americans wanted to secure the basic rights of the United states and be able to have an equal opportunity as everyone else. On December 1 Montgomery Alabama, A woman by the name of Rosa Parks who played a major role in the NAACP was snatched from a bus and taken to jail after refusing to give up her seat to a white person leaving her to sit in the back of the bus, which at the time was designated For African American men and women. This sparked an up raw in the black community, Blacks began to have peaceful protest and stopped taking the city buses. This protest/boycott to eleven months before almost crippling the city’s public bussing leaving no choice but to desegregate them. Another excellent leader of the civil rights movement is Martin Luther King. King is known for his voice having a major impact in the black community. He was also known for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation

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Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s forever changed America, and gave African Americans many rights and freedoms that they were denied earlier. This movement was lead by brave and courageous leaders, some well known like Martin Luther King Jr., and Jackie Robinson, and other lesser known leaders such as Ralph Abernathy. Their heroic efforts to fight injustice paved the way for many positive changes in our country. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became involved in politics early on in his life, and quickly rose to become the face of the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor in a Baptist church from Atlanta, and first got involved in the movement in 1955 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott.

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As a black woman, I have come to learn my history. I have been forced to learn why I have freedom today. One man stood out from the rest because of his courageous acts; his name was Martin Luther King Jr. In the United States, the civil rights movement was a nonviolent social movement and campaign to end institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and racial disenfranchisement nationwide.

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Many people believe that racism finished or disappeared after the Civil Rights Movement in 1960 but its signs are seen in the society around us even nowadays. Even though people have fought so much for the equality of the races it seems like the white supremacy always finds a way to show itself and suppress the wanted equality in one way or another. But going back in time, remembering one of the most important movements in the history of the US and of the world which has been the African-American Civil Rights Movement, whose leader was Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

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Introduction The story of the Civil Rights Movements of African Americans in America is an important story that many people knew, especially because of the leadership Martin Luther King Jr. Black people in America, between 1945 and 1970 had to fight for rights because they had been segregated by white people, they didn’t have equal laws compared to white people. So they initiated the Civil Rights Movements to fight for getting equal civil rights.

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