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Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King
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These sites are about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. from 1954-1971. Includes several timelines with the major events of the era explained. Take an online tour of several historical spots. Topics include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock Central High School, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Read about civil rights leader Malcolm X and a first-hand account of the Freedom Rides of 1961. There are links to eThemes Resources on Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black History Month.
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[O]ff, the civil rights movement and its most notable leaders, including Martin Luther King, were nothing but a bunch of street-level agitators. Everywhere they went, they stirred up trouble, and white people got mad enough to join right-wing organizations (such as the Citizens Councils of America, the organization which the CofCC succeeded) in droves. If none of the legislation associated with the movement would have passed, MLK would be no more important in the history books than Al Sharpton. And none of it would have ever passed based on the MLKs of the time alone.
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A group of civil rights demonstrators set off on Sunday, March 7, 1965, from Selma to march to Montgomery, Alabama--a fifty-four mile journey--to present a petition for black voting rights to Governor George Wallace. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge police told them to turn back and then routed them using clubs and teargas. Observers dubbed the day "Bloody Sunday." Other protesters poured into Selma. On Sunday, March 21, Martin Luther King, Jr., led more than three thousand civil rights supporters over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the way to Montgomery; by the time that the group arrived, the march numbered nearly twenty-five thousand. King captured the mood of the demonstrators when he told them: "We will not be turned around.
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This one-stop reference is ideal for student research of the civil rights movement. It contains an index, glossary of terms, speeches by George Wallace and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and biographies of civil rights leaders. It includes the stories of martyrs killed for their active involvement in the cause such as Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, and James Chaney.
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With a far-ranging selection of striking images and a lively, cogent text, Steven Kasher captures the danger, drama, and bravery of the civil rights movement. After an impassioned foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams and an introduction explaining the vital importance of photography to the movement, the book proceeds from the Montgomery bus boycott through the student, local, and national movements; the big marches in Washington and Selma; Freedom Summer; Malcolm X and Black Power; and the death of Martin Luther King.
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The “Non-Violence” approach used by Civil Rights activists called for peaceful demonstration. The followers wanted integration and equality for black Americans. The main supporter of this Approach was Martin Luther King, Jr.
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