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Civil Rights Movement In The 1960s And 1960s

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The 1960s and 1970s were times of great upheaval in the United States. New social movements were born and strong and powerful conservative counter-reactions to these movements arose.
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. to march for equal rights for all people regardless of race. The march ended with Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
King was a Baptist minister and founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he organized many boycotts and non-violent demonstrations. His belief in peaceful resistance and his call for equality for all resonated with African Americans as well as many white …show more content…

In 1964 Malcolm X argued for a separation of African Americans from white America and a creation of a Black Nation. Stokely Carmichael, a student leader and later a leader of the Black Panther political party, was influenced by Malcolm X and the teachings of the Nation of Islam. Carmichael advocated racial pride and coined the phrase “Black Power.” Like Malcolm X, Carmichael believed that African Americans should separate themselves from white America. In an essay in the Massachusetts Review, Carmichael wrote …show more content…

Today NOW is the largest national organizations. With all the social changes and movements happening in the 1960s, i.e., the civil rights movement, feminism, anti-war movement, the rise in crime, and drug use, a backlash among many white middle-class Americans was growing. Richard Nixon narrowly won the1968 presidential election campaigning on a law and order platform and appealing to those he called the silent majority. Forced to resign in his second term due to the Watergate scandal, the country was becoming more disillusioned with

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The March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom held on August 28th, 1963 had a total of eighteen speakers, including association presidents, chairmen, and religious leaders all united in one march pushing for the civil rights bill. Each of the speakers was from a different organization, association, religious background, and age, the most famous speech being Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Perhaps, out of all the speakers, the biggest example of the younger generation's voice in “The March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom” was John Lewis’

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Malcolm X became the voice of Black Nationalism and Islam. Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power plan meant to reject assimilation and integration in white communities but create independent black

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He is mainly recognized for his dedication to the Civil Rights Movement back in the 1960s. He committed his life to the well-being and equality of his African American people. King actually was first known as a Baptist preacher in Alabama although he was born in Atlanta, Georgia in

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He was an minister, philosopher, and social activist. The America's most significant civil rights leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King's philosophy of nonviolent direct action and his vision for a mass movement based upon the Christian tenets of love and understanding guided the activities of the SCLC. This nonviolent direct action became a major

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The tactics used civil rights movement of both the 1950’s and 1960’s were different helped them succeed in different ways. During the late 1950s the tactics that were used were political, while in the early in 1960s they used social and political tactics to get their goals achieved, but in the late 1960s the tactics that were used were primarily economic and social, In the 1950’s, the civil rights movement was very successful because activist showed the level of racism and segregation in the south. The tactics and resistance made in this time period helped achieve desegregation because and the resistance that the activists dealt with just made them become more aware in the media and hopefully spread nation wide.

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For example, on December 21, 1956, the Montgomery city buses were required by law to desegregate. Meanwhile, he and other black leaders came together to shape the “Southern Christian Leadership Conference”(Contemporary). This was when King became a president of SCLC; however, he died before great changes could be made. Finally, he became a leader where he journeyed all over the country and gave speeches, helping to build communities of blacks and whites who could live together.

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If every historic moment during the 1900s in America were lined up next to each other and judged based on significance and lasting social power, the Civil Rights Movement would outshine most of the other events. The Civil Rights Movement was a period of massive social turmoil in a restless country that was changing more rapidly than almost any other period in history. This change however, was not a result of random chance or just dumb luck; there was a very effective and powerful driving force that pushed the Civil Rights Movement to the success. The most influential group during the Civil Rights Movement was the youth. The youth of 1950s-1960s America were the largest factors that led to the acquisition of racial

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On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people marched to support freedom. They marched up and down Constitution and Independence avenues in Washington D.C. before the long awaited speech. They wanted to listen to the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. had, and they wanted to be the people to make that dream real. The March on Washington was an important part of the Civil Rights Movement, including the “I Have a Dream” speech. The effects of this event can still be seen today, and have changed how our nation has developed.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential leaders of his time and played a crucial role in the African-American Civil Rights movement. Luther was a charismatic leader who took a firm stand against the oppressive and racist regime of the United States (US), devoting much of his life towards uniting the segregated African-American community of the US. His efforts to consolidate and harmonise the US into one country for all is reflected in many of his writings and speeches spanning his career. As a leader of his people, King took the stand to take radical measures to overcome the false promises of the sovereign government that had been addressing the issues of racial segregation through unimplemented transparent laws that did nothing to change the grim realities of the society. Hence, King’s works always had the recurring theme of the unity and strength of combined willpower.

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While most Civil Rights leaders pushed for unity between the blacks and whites, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam trusted in the significance of self-assurance for blacks, and even went as far as to preach racial isolation. For Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, their vision of freedom and equality for blacks consisted of separate schools, no intermarriage – basically, their own separate country. It was the numerous speeches and eventually the death of Malcolm X in 1965 that roused Black Power pioneers, most remarkably Stokely Carmichael, who (as stated in ‘paragraph 2’) founded the expression "Black Power." After Malcom X's demise, Carmichael and others dismissed the ideology of many civil rights leaders, for example, Martin Luther

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