Get Smart in America
Throughout the history of blacks in America, there have been periods that could be called "civil rights movements." Though brief, these spurts offered guidance and a good background for crafting techniques and strategies to the leaders and organizers of America's modern Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. These spurts also lay the foundation that made the modern Civil Rights Movement conceivable, much less possible. The rights secured by these original historical moments of social mindedness--limited though they were--made it possible for blacks in 1950s America to amplify and expand the fight for complete equality.Previous to the 1950s Civil Rights movement, the longest sustained period of black struggle occurred around the turn of the century, at the close of the once- promising Reconstruction era, which instead of reducing or overcoming institutionalized racial tension, had the opposite result. By the late nineteenth century, the rights of blacks, granted just thirty-five years earlier with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were already being eroded and hardened into the Jim Crow system. In response grew two related but radically different responses from the black community. The two major figures of this struggle
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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