The Civil Rights Movement had a major goal, and that goal was to end discrimination based on race, creed, color, and gender, and to put an end to segregation. ... The previously mentioned goals were achieved by many different means. The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... Board of Education, also helped in bringing blacks one step closer to achieving their goals. ... The civil rights movement had many events that went on in order to help Blacks achieve some rights. ...

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Throughout working to achieve his goal of equality, King stuck to this theory of non-violent protest. ... As a result, in every attempt he made to achieve his goal of equality no violence was used, instead his followers relied on peaceful ways such as the bus boycott of 1956, after the Rosa Parks incident to send a message (Current Biography Yearbook 1968, 220). ... People were free to think that if King can take on such a challenging task, and pursue it with patience and victory to finally achieve his goal, that they could, too. Through Martin Luther King's success with his equality m...

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Dubois, agreed that the blacks in the south had to reach one goal: first-class citizenship. Their methods of reaching this goal varied between the two black men. ... Washington believed that blacks needed to gradually work their way from the bottom to the top, achieve positions of power and responsibility, and then demand their rights for equal citizenship. W.E.B. believed that blacks deserved the same rights as whites and they should not have to sacrifice their constitutional rights in order to achieve a status that they already deserved. ... He believed that persistence would accomplish th...

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The main goal of this organization was to end any kind of racial discrimination and segregation. ... The NAACP was founded 1909, and has achieved many goals and victories through out the years. ... Achievements The NAACP was and still is very successful organization, all the aims and goals Amit had mentioned were all achieved. ... The organizations main goals were economic, political, social and educational equality which was all achieved by the NAACP. Their main achievement they achieved was in 1954, when the U.S Supreme Court overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal that for years h...

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The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ... Situations like this are the ones that lead us to look back and reevaluate our dreams sometimes making our dreams and goals to change. ... Barack Obama's speech "A more perfect union" shows how the African American community has been prevented from achieving their American dream due to all the laws that have been passed. ... Today Barack Obama has achieved his goal of becoming president and maybe his American dream, but due to race setbacks he ha...

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The Civil Rights Movement had a major goal, and that goal was to end discrimination based on race, creed, color, and gender, and to put an end to segregation. ... The previously mentioned goals were achieved by many different means. The movement had its share of leaders, events, and strategies that helped to reach its' goals. ... Topeka board of education of 1954, also helped in bringing the blacks one step closer to achieving their goals. ... This organization has a goal to gain blacks full citizenship rights as well as total integration. 2 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (...

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As a result of King's dedication, the blacks were given equality throughout the U.S. and were more encouraged to pursue their goals. ... As a result, in every attempt he made to achieve his goal of equality no violence was used, instead his followers relied on peaceful ways such as boycotts and sit-ins. ... As a result of harsh racial discrimination he witnessed during his childhood, along with influences from religious figures in his life, King was passionate to achieve his goal, and achieve it peacefully. ...

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., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness and hostility he used love, patience, and understanding to achieve communication with those who persecuted him. ... Did he use harshness and violence to achieve this goal? ... He had a goal. A goal that cost so great a price, that one of the greatest of men, orators, and ministers is now gone. ...

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His tone fills you with a sense of hope, that anything can be achieved, and that you can overcome anything with the right amount of dedication. ... As the writer, Washington is able to inspire us, the readers, to find our own specific vision for ourselves, which in turn, would help us to develop a sense of hope and dedication to achieving that vision. ... Washington's, Up From Slavery, autobiography is one of the most awe-inspiring stories, of a life of dedication and commitment to achieve success, that I have ever been fortunate enough to read. ... Washington; a man who grew up th...

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This even that occurred in his life, shaped his philosophy on life, extremely, this told people that he would have his mind set on one thing and concentrate on that, to achieve his goal, in other words he had a hard head and no one could persuade or change his mind on something. ... I think that to overcome and achieve what he had achieved requires control of emotional, feelings, and a sparkle that lights the beginning of a dream. His desire inspires and pushes to achieve many things that seem impossible even to dream about, which helps us achieve our goals....

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The years following the period of reconstruction were extremely tumultuous for the members of the African American community. The federal government forsook them and left them in a state that was one of second-class citizenry and, in reality, no better off than when they were slaves. Of those tha...

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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two very important civil rights leaders in the late 1800's to early 1900's with common goals, but different ways of achieving them. Booker T. Washington was a little more patient in his philosophy. He wanted African Americans to quiet down about all the ...

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Most people in Glen Allan spend their time working hard; the irony is they never really reach their goals. ... Louis he wanted to achieve his goals, dreams, and ambitions, and Glen Allan could not offer him the opportunities a big city did. ...

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By analyzing the purpose, structure, and diction of King's speech we may achieve a better understanding of the black movement, and the harsh reality of the times. ... The metaphor of despair as a mountain and finding a single stone, hope being this stone, gives the reader the sense of how exhausting, painful, demanding, and awesome achieving freedom would be. ... Combining the bitter sarcasm with the indignant vigor, King's speech becomes very persuasive, accomplishing his goal of persuading his audience to fight for freedom and equality. ...

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Hamer, ultimately, lost this battle when the Civil Rights Movement accomplished its goal in the Civil Rights Act in 1968, and she went on to fight other battles, but disappeared from the public eye and is unknown to many today because she was a female leader and as such, did not have many of her action recorded in written history. ... She helped to achieve the right to vote and hold office for blacks, but did not win her own internal battle of being a mother and political activist, and all that implies. ... Hamer helped to achieve rights for her race, but by ignoring the gender rights, a ba...

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Amaris Baxter Langston Hughes; "Mother to Son" 1) 1930's; Realism 2) Biographical Theory of Criticism 3) Post-structural Theory of Criticism Through the literary works of Langston Hughes, it is clear to see that he uses his own style and language to portray realistic trait...

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Both men shared the same goal of wanting equal rights for all men and woman in America. ... Even though both men wanted the same goal of equality, they had different styles of approaching it. ... He also told the black community to achieve freedom, "by any means necessary-(Malcolm X). ... He said the "Negro Revolution- was pointless and he questioned the goals of the civil rights leaders saying that their only goals were, "a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated public park, a desegregated toilet; you can sit down to white folks on the toilet- (Cone). ...

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Both men shared the same goal of wanting equal rights for all men and woman in America. ... Even though both men wanted the same goal of equality, they had different styles of approaching it. ... He also told the black community to achieve freedom, "by any means necessary-(Malcolm X). ... He said the "Negro Revolution- was pointless and he questioned the goals of the civil rights leaders saying that their only goals were, "a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated public park, a desegregated toilet; you can sit down to white folks on the toilet- (Cone). ...

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They were able to set goals and take strides toward them, plus letting the government know that these things would happen. The ultimate goal of acceptance was achieved, and the evidence for this is in the reduced lynchings of blacks between 1877 and 1915. Education of blacks was much more appropriate for the late nineteenth century, than pushing them towards a long-term goal. ...

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Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... The narrator criticizes that Jody achieves his god-like status just because no one else has the nerve to take matters into their own hands. ... She knows that attempting to live up to Nanny's goals is useless, because her goals are unattainable. ...

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- (Kasnet.org 9) The motto basically meant that all the blacks were aiming at one goal and they were destined to get it. ... His main goal and what he constantly preached for was self-reliance. ... Garvey had dreams and he tried his best to achieve those dreams and if they failed he just picked up the pieces and kept marching right along. ... In the end, Garvey did reach his goal, which was black unity. As a result to Garvey's efforts in the 1920s blacks began to aim for almost all the same goals, such as: self-government, build their own economy, and self-reliance....

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Only Henry Reed brings the light beam to black desperate people at graduation by his beautiful speech about black people who achieve their positions in life despite their color and antagonism from other people. When Margarite listens song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson's she prides for black people because they also can have all opportunities to reach their goals and to be the part of "the wonderful, beautiful Negro race" (156). ... That is why Margarite survives in this world because not to give up and goes to a purposive goal. ... All her growing life she "fig...

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There was much discussion about the segregated south and how schools, theatres, housing even drinking fountains were divided and how it was a "social condition rather than a natural order" Trying to achieve this is difficult enough without having to try and prevent the child from feeling inferior. ...

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Black Leaders of the Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries There is no denying that the ultimate goal of the Negro race at the turn of the 20th century was for eventual desegregation and political freedom. ... The following will take a closer look at each of these activists and see just exactly what their views were and the way each proposed going about achieving their goals. ...

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His goal was to try and make both races act and work together as one in unity. ... He wanted to rally the people so that they would fight to get liberty and to follow it once it is achieved. ... It was almost a struggle between the two opposing forces working for the same common goal. ...

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