... ález de la Aleja 76). Due to that fact, several black men joined the army, in order to improve their future situation as citizens. We got as an example Martin R. Delany, a black man who joined the army and achieved a high social status: "Este cargo, su rango militar y el prestigio que trajo consigo del Norte, le permitieron desempeñar un ... , slaves' efforts for reaching freedom date from before the American Civil War, when there also were attempts to reach freedom, such as the newspaper The Libertator (1831-1865), and the John Brown's attack to an arsenal in Harpers Ferry in 1859...

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... Rights Act of 1964.The civil rights movement was adopted to never allow systemic oppression for any human being and aimed to transform a tragic past and move towards a greater future. Martin Luther King was a key player in the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks too was a significant contributor to the movement as was seen in the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery. The ... finally brought down segregation rules in several lunch counters. The practice of sit-in's formed the student nonviolent coordinating power which helped administer a need for civil rights legislations by President John Kenn...

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... peace and happiness. We learned about the court cases like Brown verses the Board of education (Matsuda, Lawrence, Delgado, Crenshaw 9). We talked about the leaders from the past like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, M. Gandi, and many others. What they stood for and what they fought so hard for; to have the peace, to have the type of world where ... ...

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... refused to be controlled, humiliated, and made afraid by other laws were lynched,+ or hung by White mobs. In 1896 the Supreme Court decided that racial segregation was legal. Justice John Harlan disagreed. He believed that segregation would lead to ideas of racial inferiority. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson was the basis for the supreme court decision. Overturning it became ... the groundwork for desegregation. In December 1955, a Black woman named Rosa Parks made headline news by sitting in the front of a bus. She was dragged off, arrested and convicted. Reverend Martin Luther king Jr...

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