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The American Civil Rights Movement put up a decade of struggle long after slavery had ended and after other milestones in the fight to overcome discriminatory, segregationist practices. Racism obstructs America's desire to be a land of human equality; the struggle for equal rights was also a struggle for the soul of the nation. =====

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//Since Columbus arrived on the shores of America there has been African slaves in the shadows of society. Traded and bought like objects, African American slaves were treated as such. They were used as workers on large plantations in the South and treated like animals. The Civil War brought a change, the end of the war marked the end of the African American being seen as a slave. From now on the blacks were a free people. Yet, their rights were not seen as such. Hate crimes and discrimination plagued the group. Inequality kept them in chains compared to the white man. The Civil Rights movement changed society's view of blacks. The once uneducated slave was now seen as an intellect, and as a person. Through civil disobedience, the blacks led marches, sit-ins and boycotts until their rights improved. The movement caused an end of segregation, and brought further equality to the race. Examples of this are everywhere.Take a look around, you may be sitting in class next to an African American at this moment, better yet, look at the white house. A black president lives there. All it took was a few visionaries who dared to stand up to question the system and start a movement we now have black and white equality as a result. The possibilities are endless when people stand together, and the African American Civil Rights movement can prove that to you. //=====

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Frederick Douglas- Believed in eqality for all, whether black, women or native american. Active during late 1800s. Escaped from slavery. Was a social reformer, and a great speaker. Changed many peoples belief of the stereotype that blacks could not be intellects. Wrote many books about his expericence as a slave which became very inflental for the fight for abloition. =====

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Ida B. Wells- A journalist and newspaper editor, led many anti-lynching campaigns after her close friends were lynched. With others, she helped organize a black boycott of Worlds Colombian Exposition for there unfair treatment of blacks. She was a co-founder of the NAACP. =====

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W.E.B. Du Bois - Head of NAACP. Intellectual leader, civil rights activist, pan-africanist. Very active during the 1910s and 1920s. Wrote a few books about socialogy and the fight for equality. In 1915 he published The Negro, a history of african americans. He was a part of the Niagara movement, a movement to publisize the unequality going of in America. =====

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"The Negro race in America stolen, ravished and degraded, struggling up through difficulties and oppression, needs sympathy and receives criticism, needs help and is given hindrance, needs protection and is given mob-violence, needs justice and is given charity, needs leadership and is given cowardice and apology, needs bread and is given a stone. This nation will never stand justified before God until these things are changed." ===== //Declaration of Principles//, Niagara Movement, 1905

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Booker T. Washington- Born into slavery in 1865, he became free ten years later when the civil war ended. Became a dominant leader of the African american community. A black educatorer and spokesperson during the early 1900s. He delivered the Atlanta Exposition Speech about racism which helped him gain popularity. He was an author of many books about slavery, many thought him to be a forefather of the African American Civil Rights movement. =====

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Thurgood Marshall- A lawyer begining his carrer in 1936, Marshall began to work for the NAACP. He set up a private practice and began to take on Civil Rights cases. He challenged the "seperate but equal" descion of the Homer vs. Plessy desicion and won. This sparked a number of Civil rights cases brought to court in which Marshall argued against the unequal treatment of american americans. He went on to win a very famous case. The Brown vs. Board of Education gained publicity as it outlawed the Plessy vs. Fergurson case. In total he won around 29 of the 32 cases he argued in from of the Supreme court about the topic of ineqality and segregation. In 1940 he went on to become the Chief Counsel for the NAACP. =====

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Walter Francis White- The head of the NAACP from 1931- 1955. Fought segregation by challenging the supreme court in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Also Quintupled the NAACP membership to 500,000. His work inclueded investigating riots and lynchig of african americans. In 1937, he was awarded the Springarn medal from the NAACP. =====

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Rosa Parks- In 1955, in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. She non-violenlty protested the unequal treatment of blacks and whites. This act of defiances serves as a strong symbol of the African American Civil Rights movemnt. It meant that she firmley believe that it was unequal and she did not want it to contiue any longer. Itis an icon of racial segragation, and it is still learned about it today, ven though itwas such a simple act to not give up a bus seat. She went on to work with Martin Luther King and organize further movements. =====

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Martin Luther King Jr.- Easily one of the nations most influential leaders in the African American Civil Rights Movement. Through civil disobediance and non violent protest, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1963, he led a march on Washington and devolped one of the most powerful speech ever delievered. The "I Have A Dream" speech was hard by over 200,000 supporters. It called for an end to discrimination, and ultimetley led to win a nobel peace prize the following year. Tradically, he was assasinated in 1968. However, his birthday was made a national holiday in the U.S in 1986. =====

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Ku-Klux-Klan (KKK) A hate group formed after the Civil war. Focuses it violence on African Americans. Believe in white supremacy and white nationalism. Close to Neo-Nazis, it is a terrorist group. Commit hate crimes and violence against minorities. Founded by Confederate Civil war veterans. =====

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Many other hate crimes occurred during the movement. African Americans homes were burned, crosses of black churches were burned, and some of the African Americans were murdered for there protests. =====

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Women Rights- The women's fight for equality to men proves very similar to the African Americans fight for equality to the white man. Dating back to centuries ago, a women was seen as a second rate citizen. They could not vote or hold office and always had fewer rights then men. The National Woman Suffrage Association formed and had the basic idea that similar to the NAACP, a group trying to fight for rights. A breakthrough for women occurred in 1919, when the 19th amendment granted womens suffrage. Similar to that of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended segregation. Both were a moral win for the groups of people, and was a symbol that equality was within reach, and not just an unrealistic goal. Some women were for African American Civil Rights, while some blacks were for women rights, while some were dark-skinned women that were activist for both. =====

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Homosexual Rights- A current movement taking place all around America. Throughout history homosexuality has been condemned in almost every society. In the past few decades people have spoken out against the discrimination of homosexuals, similar to African American leaders speaking out against the discrimination of blacks. Bayard Rustin lead marches in Washington for gay rights, just as Martin Luther King Jr. has done earlier in history for equality. The outlawing of segregation is similar to the laws that are passed that allow gay marriage. They both have given greater freedom to the citizen. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Native American Rights- Similar to blacks, Native Americans rights were overlooked when compared to the white man. They were put on reservations and seen as second class citizens even though their ancestors were here before Christopher Columbus. They faced segregation alongside the black man, as there would be a water fountain for a "white", one for "black", and one for "colored." Legislation was passed in order to give more rights to the Native American, it is argued that what was passed has effectively ended inequality between the groups of people. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reconstruction Era- The South trying to recover from its loss in the Civil War. Made up of corrupt politions who came into power through violence. Ended after Emancipation Procimation. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Formed in 1909. African American Civil rights organization. Their goal was to reach equality and eliminate discrimination. =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". =====

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Civil Rights Act of 1964- legislation act passed which outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements andracial sergragation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. =====

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