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Showing 1 to 20 of 554 for “"Civil Rights"”.
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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… differences between the northern and southern civil rights movements through the examination of the black freedom struggle in Lexington, Kentucky. The geographical location of Lexington offers a unique perspective in civil rights movement activity, as the local movement was not distinctly …
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Harry S. Truman and Civil Rights
… a landmark in the history of the development of civil rights in the United States. The following points will highlight the role of Harry S. Truman in the continuing struggle for human rights: first, to study the sporadic and erratic nature of civil rights action in the United States as a …
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Civil Rights Groups: Urban Environment and Policy Impact
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317273.pdf: 6826719 bytes, checksum: b3ed5de77221285fc95ef053b59c8e21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
Conservative theology was consistent with the advance of racial justice in the Southern Baptist Convention during the second half of the twentieth century. Historians have downplayed the role of conservative theology in the advancement of racial justice within the Southern Baptist Convention. Yet …
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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
… in the deep South. Blacks were demanding their rights and finally obtaining some of their goals at the nationa1 level. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown Topeka. Kansas Board of Education case was the prime VS stimulus.1 While the blacks in the South were feeling encouragement over …
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… controversy among feminists over a proposed civil rights antipornography ordinance. This ordinance was written by antipornography feminists' Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and as a result of its popularity, an opposing feminist organization, the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce …
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Speaking for Others: A Political Analysis of Civil Rights Archives
… an event or time period This study examines the Civil Rights archives at two institutions, The University of Southern Mississippi and Queens College, focusing specifically on the materials each has related to Freedom Summer Both of these institutions claim direct ties to Freedom Summer and their …
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Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)
In 1965, Civil Rights organizer Bayard Rustin published an article in Commentary entitled, “From Protest to Politics.” He declared, “what began as a protest movement is being challenged to translate itself into a political movement.”1 Rustin’s call for political action capped off a decade-long …
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The Politics of Mexican-American Civil Rights in Texas, 1948-1955
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Using Literature to Support Second Graders' Critical Literacy of Civil Rights
This study was designed to explore the use of children's literature to engage second grade students in critical literacy. I drew on multiple domains examining the use of children's literature in students' critical literacy development. I used data to analyze the kinds of perspectives children's …
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The Invisibles of the Civil Rights Movement: Uncovering the Unseen Changemakers
… enact the vision of the leaders. The American civil rights movement is a model for how this works. Leaders like John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Andrew Young were crucial to the movement’s success, but they needed countless people working …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
… focusing on common issues and concerns. With the civil rights movement being broadcast across the world, there was no better time for African American community and civil rights organizations to take a role within the movement in combatting the oppression, racism, and discrimination of white …
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FBI Investigations into the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
<p>This paper examines how the FBI investigated civil rights organizations and social movements from the 1950s through the 1970s. It compares the reasons for the investigations, the investigative methods, and the extent of the investigations. The paper uses FBI files as the basis for the …
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
… of how we understand the history of the civil rights movement, Black Power, and their respective, though interrelated, relationships to Black-defined liberation, mainstream liberalism, and radical politics. By analyzing and reframing familiar debates this project pursues a more usable …
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Diagnosis NABJ: a preliminary study of a post-civil rights organization
… in 1975, NABJ represents the quintessential post-Civil Rights organization, in that it was established following the end of the struggle for freedom rights. This piece argues that NABJ, like many other advocacy organizations, has succumbed to incorporation. Once a fierce critic of institutional …
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Jackson, Mississippi, Contested: The Allied Struggle for Civil Rights and Human Dignity
… monthly reports and correspondence of civil rights organizations, in addition to newspaper coverage, oral histories; and memoirs, this study shows that a grassroots, community-driven movement mobilized in Mississippi's capital to challenge institutionalized discrimination. Yet, racial …
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Jackson, Mississippi, Contested: The Allied Struggle for Civil Rights and Human Dignity
… monthly reports and correspondence of civil rights organizations, in addition to newspaper coverage, oral histories, and memoirs, this study shows that a grassroots, community-driven movement mobilized in Mississippi’s capital to challenge institutionalized discrimination. Yet, racial …
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… Cold War. It analyzes news articles about the civil rights struggles in America in the 1950's and 1960's. This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if there was an influence by the State Department in news output that was targeted towards audiences in …
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