... . In August of 1966 The Chicago Freedom Movement was close to an end with the initiating of the 10-points agreement. A New York Times article writes, "The 10-point agreement to end housing bias was reached Essentially the 10 points provide for better implementation and enforcement ... On August 14, 1966, 3 civil rights marches took place in white neighborhoods in an effort to end housing discrimination. The next day, a New York Times article titled "Police in Chicago Clash With Whites After 3 Marches" was printed. The third paragraph from the top reads "Police officials said the ... of...

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... the African American"s also began to believe this themselves, and would never have the chance to excel. Malcolm then pursued a life of crime alongside his friend "Shorty" in Harlem, New York. He continued this lifestyle until he was eventually apprehended, and convicted of Burglary and incarcerated in 1946, he was twenty. While in prison, his brother Reginald visited him and told ... was told by him that the Nation offered the working class African American an education that could be used to improve their economic conditions. Malcolm began lecturing individuals of the Ghetto showing the...

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... 's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union, which ... unlike the previous acts of the hippies, just more intense. And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. During the several days of music...

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... an increasing U.S. role in the Vietnam War, and racial unrest increased. Throughout the nation demonstration was in major motion. Riots broke out in the overcrowded ghetto slums of Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, and New York City. From this War on Poverty, many community citizens got involved. Just as they got involved in the school system the got involved all around ... ...

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