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April 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, Alabama

had defended his presence in Birmingham as an apostle of non-violence and justice, and appealed persuasively to America to grant r...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Newspaper Reporting and Civil Rights

In ten pages U.S. civil rights is examined in terms of several New York Times articles between 1963 and 1965 and considers North a...

A Martin Luther King Jr. Letter

In five pages King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' written in 1963 is examined and includes its messages including the way religio...

The Equal Pay Act of 1963

system of seniority (Wikipedia, 2006). In essence it is the ideal of "equal pay for equal work." In relationship to what th...

Book Reviews: "Holes" and "The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963"

all, Stanley is in the labor camp because of a mistake, not because hes guilty of anything. As the book progresses, and the boys d...

Dear Dr. King

man of vision. Hes intelligent, principled, ethical, and because he is black and was raised by a single mother, he knows what its ...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...

Civil Rights Act of 1991

charges of intentional discrimination.4 Furthermore, the 1991 Act broadened the language of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and extended...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

1950s McCarthyism and 1960s' Civil Rights Movement

In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

Civil Rights Movement and George C. Wallace

would give him later during his political career for he realized that most of the people he would be gaining votes from were more ...

Civil Rights Movement and Its Origins

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Participant Rosa Parks

In ten pages this paper discusses the fact and fiction connected with Rosa Parks' bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that resulted...

1963 News Magazine Views of Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this paper examines the August 1963 Freedom March led by Martin Luther King in a consideration of how he was portra...

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

Letter from Birmingham Jail/King

This paper described the impact of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Rev. Martin Luther King and its importance to the civil right...

Comparisons Between Violent and Nonviolent Civil Rights Protests

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

Taxpayer Advocacy Groups and Civil Rights

of the previous year, which means that its impossible for spending to come back to previous levels in the case of a recession (Nie...

The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Would Thoreau Approve

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Dissent in Protest Nation of Protests

The most noteworthy US protest movements between the years 1950 and 1990 are the focus of this essay consisting of five pages as p...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...