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Bre'Anna Houston

On This Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers "I Have a Dream" Speech - 2 views

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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    In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).
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    In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).
Jaimon Cannon

I Have A Dream Speech - Martin Luther King Speeches - 1 views

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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    The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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    The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Zebryana Ross

Civil Rights Movement: Secondary Sources on the Civil Rights Movement - 1 views

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    During the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans campaigned for an end to racial discrimination through a series of non-violent protests and marches. The Civil Rights Movement culminated with the passage of federal laws banning discrimination in voting, employment, housing and other sectors of American society.
Eric Davis

Civil Rights Movement: Secondary Sources on the Civil Rights Movement - 0 views

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Civil Rights Marches

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    During the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans campaigned for an end to racial discrimination through a series of non-violent protests and marches. The Civil Rights Movement culminated with the passage of federal laws banning discrimination in voting, employment, housing and other sectors of American society.
Michelle Adams

The Civil Rights Movement - 4 views

Find information on the following topics: * Opposition to Plessy v. Ferguson Case during the Civil Rights Movement. * Brown v. Board of Education * Martin Luther King, Jr. (passive resistance again...

Plessy v. Ferguson Brown Board of Education Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks Freedom Riders Sit-ins Marches NAACP Civil Rights Act 1964 Voting 1965

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Rakira Cooper

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 - The Road to Civil Rights - Highway History - FHWA - 0 views

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Voting 1965

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    The Road to Civil Rights The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The march from Selma to Montgomery on U.S. 80, the deaths of Jackson, Reeb, and Liuzzo, and the President's commitment kept the Voting Rights Act moving forward. In the Senate, Southern opponents staged a 24-day filibuster. Reporter E. W.
Darian Smith

Civil Rights Cities: Atlanta, Georgia - 0 views

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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    Union General Ulysses Grant determined that the only way to beat the South was to systematically destroy its land and economic resources; Atlanta was the first city sacked. Major General William T. Sherman's campaign, called "Sherman's March," was instrumental in the Union victory. The University of Georgia has a firsthand account of Atlanta's demolition.
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Educators That Rock!: Robert H. Mayer - 0 views

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    FindingEducation spoke to Mayer about locating primary documents, understanding "historical thinking" and examining the civil rights movement. Images of the African-American children that were marched to jail, decades earlier, still resonate for Mayer. "They experienced the degradation of segregation as much as their parents.
Bre'anna Dunn

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Speech - Overview - 0 views

On August 28, 1963, nearly a quarter of a million people arrived in the District of Columbia for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Amid the day's various events and speeches, one stood ...

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On This Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated - 0 views

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    On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Small-time convict James Earl Ray was sent to prison for the crime, but the King family believes the assassination was part of a larger government conspiracy.
Michelle Adams

Plessy v. Ferguson - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 0 views

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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    Recommended Articles Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March 1865 to assist former slaves in post-Civil War America. After the Civil War, former Confederate states passed laws known as "black codes" that restricted the rights of former slaves.
Taylor Powell

Marin Luther King Jr - 0 views

Dr. King's involvement with the NAACP dates back to his position on the executive committee of the NAACP Montgomery Branch in the 1950's, through his leadership in the various boycotts, marches and...

Martin Luther King Jr.

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