protest that had created a change was The Salt March in 1930. This was a protest over British rule in India over the salt policies that were placed by the British. Mohandas Gandhi led thousands of Indian people to the Arabian Sea Coast to make their own salt from the sea water, which soon led to 60,000 arrests including Gandhi and in 1947 India received their independence. This was an important event that
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was created by president John F. Kennedy and signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. The act was created to officially eliminate racism throughout the United States of America. Before the civil rights act many african americans were treated unequal in many areas and faced many struggles just because of their skin. African americans protested on and on until they got what they believed was equality. Many events such as the march of Selma happened to urge equal rights. The charge
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Martyr Medgar Evers, was an important leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi during the three of the jim crow laws. According to pbs article on evers the author states, “Evers had a strong, devoutly Christian mother and a fearless father, who taught his sons never to be afraid of whites.” One way that Evers stood strong during the segregation time is that he grew up with his father motto. As he grew older he tried to live every day by that saying, this is one reason why he was a strong
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The Civil Rights Movement was a time where all African Americans wanted equal rights, such as voting, and even sitting on the bus where they wanted. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped outlaw discrimination based on race, color, sex and national origin mainly when it came to voter registration. Voting Act of 1965 authorized the U.S attorney general’s examiners to register qualified voters and get rid of the discrimination practice in areas that had disenfranchised Black voters. The Voting Act of
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A social movement is when a group of people go out and try to make a change in the world. Douglass belonged to the abolitionist movement. He belonged to this movement because he too, was a slave.In the DOI it states,”....all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” He and his people didn't like being a slave, he wanted to change the lives of his people and get them out of that lifestyle
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Trip to Freedom “All I was doing was trying to get home from work.” says Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama boarded a city bus coming home from a long day of work. She boarded the bus and sat in the colored section of the bus, as the bus filled up, Parks was demanded to give up her sit for a white men. Rosa Parks refused to obey the bus driver, James F. Blake, and was placed in custody by two police officers, F.B. Day and D
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society, as seen in The United States of America. Peaceful resistance has given to America the opportunity for everyone to vote, everyone to go to school, and everyone to be in a relationship. Peaceful resistance has to be done correctly, which Martin Luther King Jr. understood. “In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to
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Civil disobedience is the highest form of respect for a country that the government can receive. It shows that the people of the country love their country and expect it to be more than what it is now. Lately patriotism in this country has been defined by blindly following the status quo or an immense longing for the way things were. Although contemporarily modern civil disobedience is viewed with a scorning eye, civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free society, and any society without civic
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world”-Harriet Tubman. These were the words that motivated Harriet to move on, even through the hard times. She was a brave woman who fought against slavery. There were several stages in the life of Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland 1820. At birth her name was Araminta Ross. Harriet was one of 11 children
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It’s no doubt that white men were cruel to anybody they deemed different during the civil rights era.The black voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, called Bloody Sunday was a horrible but necessary Event during the civil rights era. Bloody Sunday started out as a calm anti violence march from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote for black people. The event took place on March 7th, 1965 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama where Marchers were met with state troopers. The troops
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