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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws are laws that were rooted in racial prejudice and existed to circumvent the Constitution to enforce racial segregation and discrimination. Credit:
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NAACP
The NAACP was created in response to the growing violence against colored people in the 1900's. It's an organization that aims to destroy racial discrimination and barriers that exist in society. It still exists today.
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Malcom X
Malcolm X was a unique figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1900's. Unlike many figures of the movement, Mr. X did not promote nonviolence. He believed that if an African American was treated with violence, then they should respond with it.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Probably the most well-known figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He advocated nonviolent forms of protests and worked with Presidents Roosevelt and Johnson to further the rights of minorities in America.
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html -
Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
The creator of "Black Power", a Harvard student and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he called for the empowerment of black people by black people. Even though his protesting had always been peaceful demonstrations his message was largely misinterpreted as a call for violence on whites, which is tragic. :(
Credit:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/10/287320160/stokely-carmichael-a-philosopher-behind-the-black-power-movement -
Black Panthers and Huey Newton
