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Civil Rights Movement: The American Indian Movement

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Established in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the birth of an organization known as the American Indian Movement was assembled. The founders of the movement were George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Clyde Bellecourt. These men were community activists who began the idea of the movement when a forum of 200 people from American Indian communities appeared at a meeting to discuss American Indian issues and problems. Some of the issues conveyed in the meeting were issues of discrimination and decades of federal Indian policy. The community activists and the 200 American Indian people who showed up wanted to express their enmity that muted their voice in America and wanted to conduct their own destiny. From this frustration and
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