... overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride ... of this act many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislati...

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... for social reform that e had been seeking. Based on his knowledge and his experience in India, his determination and belief in nonviolent resistance were strengthened to help achieve freedom for African Americans in the United States through nonviolent means. Finally he found his answer in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. As he grew up he followed the principle, "Hate the sin ... . Well, sort of, Gandhi had been attacked and beaten many times by the white South Africans. He then formed his idea of passive resistance to, and noncooperation with, the South African authoritie...

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... burden of the war?18 By 1967, the Vietnam War was costing America seventy million dollars a day and by the wars end, two-three million Vietnamese and fifty-eight thousand Americans were dead.19 Prior to 1966, all students were exempt from the draft. After 1966, however, students with below average grades were completely eligible to be sent to war.20 ... , especially that of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the ideas behind integration. Unlike Baez, though, her style of music was entirely new. She is described as having " brought African-American blues to white Americans?34 In her song "Get it...

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... -reaching federal legislation that undermined southern efforts to enforce segregation through local laws. His vision of a just and equal society where race would be transcended fired the imagination of many Americans. King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade ... of blacks on public transportation, came together to take action. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Women's Political Council, the Baptist Ministers Conference...

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