American society mirrored many of the nation’s changes in the late 20th century. I will list four movements individually, the labor/communist movement, the civil rights/black liberation movement, the women’s rights/women’s liberation movement, and the peace movement of the middle of the 20th century. Each movement had many associations and commissions that fought for their ideas […]
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In December 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC joined forces with the Student Nonviolent Committee (SNCC) in Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had been working for suffrage for months. Selma is a great place to defend African-American voting rights. Half of the city’s population is black, but only 1% of them are registered […]
Americans have long struggled with maintaining a balance between elected democracy and popular democracy. For example, some of the earliest political controversies in the country raged over whether states should be represented equally or by population, a debate that resulted in our bicameral legislature. At the center of all American politics, from the Constitution to […]
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When students hear ‘Black History Month’, we immediately think of the efforts of Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and of SNCC and other civil rights activists groups. And we should; their rubric for peaceful protest and ‘boy-cott’ is unparalleled in history, so far as I’ve seen. We might also think of the suffering of enslaved Americans; […]
Stokely Carmichael was a prominent African-American who was at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Carmichael was born in 1941 on the island of Trinidad which is located in the West Indies. Though he was a Trinidad native, at the ripe age of eleven years old, his family, including him, moved to New York […]
Ellipses are three to four dots that are placed in a row, that represent words that have been left out. Use ellipses when quoting material; The people at the conference were from different parts of the Massachusetts who were trying to eliminate street violence. The people at the conference… were trying to eliminate street violence. […]
During the 1960s, many African Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded that the federal government step in and resolve the issue. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. […]
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The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was a culmination of nearly 300 years of racial injustice and inequality on mainland America and, later, the United States. This movement, like most mass movement, did not happen overnight; rather, it took the momentum built by centuries of frustration and a realization that the inequality […]