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…civil disobedience campaign, the non-violent resistance to the law, was one of the catalysts of the civil rights movement. It was this campaign that was the first to receive world - wide attention. One of the first challenges to the Plessey v Ferguson laws…

…War. After the Civil War was over Congress passed the three great Civil War Amendments to out constitution. In this paper I will take a closer look at Slavery, Civil Rights, and the Constitution during the 19th Century (AfricanAmericans.Com, 2004). The Dred…

…<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> Wrestling over Civil Right's during Reconstruction After the civil war our nation faced the difficult task of reuniting the states. Over 2 million…

…American black civil rights The 1960's were a time of great turmoil in America and throughout the world. One of the main protest issues was black civil rights. The movement really got underway with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King…

…to President Abraham Lincoln, whom he encouraged to make Emancipation an issue in the Civil War and to adopt constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Following the war Douglass would work for the Freedman's…

…Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. -- prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, youngest Nobel Peace Prize laurebate. But single…

…Many individuals define the civil rights movement to be the collective efforts of African Americans to secure equal access to opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of a U.S. citizen. One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct…

…tomorrow, segregation forever." With discrimination running rampant in all phases of life, many blacks were psychologically devastated. The civil rights movement was not just about convincing whites that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship…

…        Booker T. Washington has been a most controversial figure in the fight for civil rights since his rise to fame in the late 1800's. Many who knew him believed that he was a straightforward man, and he was admired as a genuine hero…

…Many Americans believed in progress toward better race relations after the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. They saw a future where African Americans and other minorities would emerge from poverty to become fully integrated…