... events that occurred over the course of many years. People like Malcolm X, who led black Muslims in their fight against oppression and prejudice; Martin Luther King Jr. who led a nonviolent movement to change the ways in which black Americans were treated, and essentially to end segregation; and Rosa Parks, who refused to relinquish her seat to a white woman on a public bus, which led to the bus boycott ... insurrection which ultimately resulted in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the granting of voting rights to black Americans, giving African Americans the freed...

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... culture. But until the eleventh century people were enslaved mainly because of war. During the crusade, Christians and Muslims used religion to justify slavery. In the fifteenth century, race became the primary basis for slavery. In ... . The English began to establish their own colonies along the eastern seaboard through trading companies chartered through King James. Some companies cultivated crops. Servants were brought to the colonies along with captive Africans to work ... Europeans needed to convince themselves that other races were somehow less than human in order to justify the b...

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• Grade Level: High School