Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Lee Parks was widely known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Parks turned the course of American history by refusing in 1955 to give up her seat on a bus for a white man.

Civil Rights legislation was enacted to protect the rights of citizens who were mistreated, treated unfairly, and harassed within communities. Civil Rights for African Americans was a long, hard-fought battle, and only occurred after a few hundred years of maltreatment. Civil Rights is still largely thought of as a race issue, but the issues underpinning "civil rights" affect all races.

Marcus Garvey promoted the idea of people of color being transported back to their various homelands with a primary focus being Africa.

Yes she did

There is no doubt Mrs. Rosa Parks is one of our country's most important historical ?gures. Often referred to as "the mother of the civil rights movement," she was the spark that set off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Contrary to the folkloric accounts of her civil rights role, Mrs. Parks was not too tired to move. Rather, she had been a knowledgeable NAACP stalwart for many years and gave the organization the incident it needed to move against segregation in the unreconstructed heart of the Confederacy, Montgomery, AL.

Mrs. Parks headed the Youth Division at the Montgomery NAACP branch for years. She is the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

That is a matter of opinion, but I think that Martin Luther King Jr. is the most widely known.

It frightened some whites.

Some of Martin Luther King Jr's most famous quotes include, "We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope" and â??Faith is taking the first step even when you donâ??t see the whole staircase.â??The speech he is most famous for is his iconic "I have a dream" speech.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957

The Civil Rights movement in the US during the 1960's used pacific strategies to draw attention to the civil rights that were often denied to Blacks. They also sought to gain supporters by being nonviolent towards their goals. Peaceful demonstrations, boycotts, sit down activities and appealing to public officials concerning the improvement of civil rights were frequently used by Black organizations such as the NAACP to gain support in the battle for civil rights.

The most comprehensive civil rights legislation was passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Washington, D.C. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation, and anything covered by interstate commerce. That included restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters. The act also forbad discrimination in employment and discrimination on the bases of sex.

The women's sufferage movement actually started a few years before the Civil War and was brought to a temporary halt during the conflict. It continued on to the 1920's when women won the vote.

When Governor Glasgow signed the Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote. The Bill was the outcome of years of meetings in towns and cities across the country, with women often travelling considerable distances to hear lectures and speeches, pass resolutions and sign petitions. A number of petitions were presented to both Houses of Parliament from the early 1880s till 1893. Only two of these historically important documents are known to have survived and both are preserved at Archives New Zealand. The first of these was the unsuccessful 1892 women's franchise petition containing approximately 20,000 signatures. This was the culmination of many years work by the Women's Christian Temperance Movement and prominent suffragist, Kate Sheppard. Source: http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/permanentexhibitions/suffrage.php accessed in Melbourne Australia 18 April 2007 In 1869, Wyoming Territory became the first area of the United States to grant women's suffrage.

Civil Rights are bestowed upon each citizen of any village, town, city. They consist of basic rights each person possesses. The right to live, to be free of ownership by another and the right to participate in what makes them happy as long as that passion does not deviate from the societal norm for decent behavior. Social norms are very obvious and no one has a question as to how a person should conduct themselves while among others. That occurs in every animal family and societal unit and is innate in each of us.

it ended segregation. maybe :) I hope I'm right

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not involve voting rights nor prohibit segregation. There was a separate Voting Rights Act. The PURPOSE of CRA 1964 was to regulate how governments, large ionstitutions and large employers dealt with discrimination and bias on account of race, sex, and religion.

The Confederates started to run out of eager volunteers first, and so had to resort to a draft law in 1862. The provisions of this law and the way it was implemented caused problems which plagued the Rebel Army for the rest of the war. All men already in the Army were required by the new law to stay in the Army until the war was over, regardless of whatever they might have agreed to when volunteering. Men were allowed to change branches of the service, from infantry to artillery or cavalry, for instance. The old soldiers were supposed to be given furloughs to visit home before returning "for the duration", but the law took effect just as the winter was ending and active fighting and campaigning was about to begin. Exemptions from being drafted included one white man for every twenty slaves, promoting bitterness among the majority of non-slave owning small farmers who were most of the Confederate soldiers, who could now say that it was a "rich man's war but a poor man's fight". Also exempt were petty government officials, like mailmen and justices of the peace, so the politically connected could dodge the draft by getting appointed to such a position, if they wished. The worst part of the law was that it allowed existing Army units to hold new elections for their officers, so electioneering and promising became widespread. Any officer who had tried to be efficient and enforce discipline was likely not to be reelected, and he was likely to be replaced with someone more easygoing but much less capable. The effects of that single provision caused a loss in the efficiency and fighting power of the Rebel armies. The law was mainly a goad to volunteering, and in that sense it worked, as there was a new outpouring of volunteers into the ranks in 1862. It was considered a disgrace to be a "conscript" (draftee) so men "voluntarily" enlisted to avoid this stigma.

Volunteering in the north also dried up, and the north had even closed many enlistment offices when the war looked to be going well early in 1862. The Union had finally to go with a draft law in 1863. When draft workers went to try to make lists of men eligible riots, the worst ever in America, took place in northern cities, most notably in the New York City Draft Riots of July, 1863. In the north a man could be exempted from the draft by paying $300, or by hiring a "substitute", which involved finding a man of sufficient physical fitness to serve but who was not eligible for the draft, and paying him to take your place. (Lincoln quietly hired a substitute for himself). Northern poor men were bitter as $300 was more than they made in a year and they could not afford to hire a substitute, so it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight there too. To get men to "volunteer" states and cities in the north payed "enlistment bonuses". This could amount to several hundred dollars. If a state or city could not get sufficient "volunteers" by paying bonuses to meet the quota Washington had set for them, then they had to make up the difference by drafting more men. The bonus system led to "bounty jumping", where soldiers enlisted over and over to collect the money, then deserted and went to another area and enlisted again.

On both sides conscripts made poor soldiers and were apt to run as soon as the fighting started.

There are many definitions given about this difference, and in many countries, laws and comments the terms are used in different ways. Wikipedia for one mentions 'freedom of speech' at the same time under 'civil rights' and under 'civil liberties'. But you could say that civil rights are general rules and freedoms that apply to any- and everybody in the same way, and that civil liberties are (often) specific rules and freedoms that apply to specific situations.

Many factors, 2 of the major ones are:

Expansion of the American Territory - Went from everyone living mostly East of the Appalachian mountains to thousands of people living in the Oregon and California territories, in a matter of a few decades. The entire area from Texas to California was taken over, post-Mexican war, and the Great Plains were, if not taken over and homesteaded, were traveling routes.

there were many new inventions - The Cotton Gin and the Reaper allowed cotton to be cleaned faster and grain/food crops to be harvested faster, thus either cutting down on the amount of man hours needed, or allowing the same number of man hours to create many times the amount of product. The Steam Boat and Steam powered Train allowed people and goods to travel further distances, cheaper and faster, with less risk of harm. Large scale manufacturing (aka "factories") had people living closer to their job, and receiving a regular income, so they began spending a regular income on rent and food. It also created more goods faster and cheaper, so that either more could be sold/traded or the profit margin could be higher, changing the economy with having one or two people receiving all of the profits. The Erie canal was "invented" giving greater travel area and trading area, and the Telegraph allowed everyone to communicate with each other much faster. (Messages such as "All the grain down here is ruined, buy more now" conceivably could have happened, with short term changes due to the economy in response... but seriously, the ability to communicate over vast areas is almost always good for the economy/country)

African-Americans used a combination of boycotts, sit ins and marches early in the Civil Rights movement to challenge Jim Crow laws and gain equal rights. Activists also pushed for and won legislation that struck down barriers in education, housing and employment.

no they used legal challenges

The NAACP is against segregation, while the UNIA supports segregation. NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The equal employment opportunity commission was esrablished

she faced poorness of father, and she had to go to a white school because black people didn't have educataion.

According to my U.S. history book, President Kennedy initially approached civil rights policies cautiously.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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