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Four days after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was put into place which outlawed the refusal to sell or rent to someone based on colour race, religion, sex or national origin. this was a result of the civil rights movement campaigning against housing discrimination in the US. Despite the historic achievement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation in relation to housing still continued in the US. From 1950 to 1980, African American's living in urban areas

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for domestic change writing a manifesto popularly known as the Port Huron Statement on June 15 of 1962. Students desired change and became active in the Civil Rights Movement in hopes to change the attitudes of the citizens in America. The Port Huron Statement reflected ideas of these newly conscious middle American youth, increased Civil right activism, and created the New Left in regards to form a more democratic society. The conscious youth yearned for a more favorable democracy. Students

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The civil rights movement caused many great changes in the educational aspects of many minorities. Racial, gender and disability barriers were removed and provided many new opportunities for these groups. Educational benefits were no longer restricted to certain groups of people. This radical change in society had many positive benefits for all communities nationwide. The effects of the civil rights movement impacted many people's lives and gave them a better future. Between fall of 1986 and fall

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Civil liberties can be defined as the protection from our own government actions. While civil rights can be defined to make sure all the liberties are fair and equal for all. For example a few civil liberties include freedom of speech, right to vote and the right to privacy right to bear arms. The Amendments then make sure that all those liberties are fair for all by adding clauses. An example is that the 1st Amendment has a clause of freedom of speech but then a clause was added to protect freedom

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Response Paper #4The folk music of the Civil Rights Movement “came out of tradition, common experience, and generations of resistance” (Dunaway 2010: 140). The songs used throughout the movement derived from the shared experiences and struggles of African Americans while connecting “the gentle, idealistic world of folk music and the integrationist world of civil rights” (Dunaway 2010: 145). Songs, such as “We Shall Overcome”, were put through the folk process, where a song is passed on and alterations

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Over the years, equality has enhanced due to the improvement of presidential classifications. Up until the election of 2017, equality and civil rights have improved. Majority of the people have gained their civil rights, while equality has become more superior. There has been some complications with new rights. Society also lacks a supply of inspiring authority figures lately, more than in the past.     For instance, Donald Trump has recently been elected president of the United States. One of his

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definitions of civil rights and civil liberties depending on who is asked. As stated in the textbook, civil rights are the protections of people in historically disadvantaged groups from discriminatory actions. Also stated in the textbook, civil liberties are the basic rights that every person should have in their lives such as the right of speech or the right to protest the government and more that can be found in the Bill of Rights. These are the definitions of civil rights and civil liberties as

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The post 1945 Civil Rights movement, also known as the “Second Reconstruction”, began its trek to equality by challenging the education system. Civil rights activists believed a decent education was a right reserved for all. They saw schooling as their doorway to begin “socializing” white children at a young age to the idea of being around and working alongside black children. More importantly, education readies people for the working world, and activists believed integrating schooling would allow

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The civil rights act of 1964 ended segregation in the Deep South,within public places. It granted African Americans the same privileges as the whites. The act of 64 was one of the biggest accomplishments that has ever been passed. It passed through the White House signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2nd of 1964 giving African Americans rights to freedom. The bill was signed by president Lyndon Johnson, but president Kennedy was the original “founder” of the bill which was written in 1962 before

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I noted that the U.S. civil liberties, as well as, U.S. civil rights are generally located in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, as well as, the Fourteenth Amendment. The distinction between civil liberties and civil rights is blurred since the concepts are used interchangeably, even though they refer to different kinds of guaranteed protections. Civil liberties are protections against government actions. Whereas civil rights refer to positive actions governments

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