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…The Bloody Civil Rights It all began in 1875 when the beginning of Civil Rights in American Society began to take place. With the end of the Cold war, came the question of inequality. Who had the right to run the country? Who made the rules…

…By the mid-20th century, racial tensions had escalated and demonstrations swelled for voting rights and school integration. Beginning with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 lead by Reverend Martin Luther King, conflicts between the Civil Rights…

…"Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a clearly written essay that explains the reasons behind, and the methods of nonviolent civil disobedience, and gently expresses King's disappointment with those who are generally supportive of equal rights for African…

…progress.... The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. carried over into the 1960s, but for most blacks, the tangible results were minimal. Only a minuscule percentage of black children actually attended…

…with which the Blacks were treated takes us all the way back to slavery. Back in those days the majority of this country’s population accepted it. The oppressed African Americans eventually began to become more organized and started to fight for the civil rights…

…experience, the origins of the Civil Rights Movement date back much further than the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education which said, "separate but equal" schools violated the Constitution. From the earliest slave revolts in this country over…

…movements of the 1960s; religious fundamentalism; the promise and pitfalls of living longer; television; civil rights and more. PEOPLE'S CENTURY has been honored with an International Emmy and George Foster Peabody Award. Each of the series' final installments…

…of the Civil Rights Movement? Surely they were. Everything must start from somewhere then escalate on. It’s like the saying goes “ People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it”. It doesn’t matter how long it took us to get our freedom…

…of the Civil Rights Movement? Surely they were. Everything must start from somewhere then escalate on. It’s like the saying goes “ People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it”. It doesn’t matter how long it took us to get our freedom…

…within several communities, including white, black, and civil rights communities. The fire that was fueling these two particular cases was the desire of white males to protect white feminine sexual virtue from being daunted by threatening black men, which…