What would you consider the three most important achievements in civil rights for African Americans since 1900
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I'll go with the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the implementation of the Medicare program.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July 2, 1964), in the United States was landmark legislation outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Originally conceived to protect the rights of black men, the bill was amended prior to passage to protect the civil rights of all men and women.\n\nThe Act transformed American society. It prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government, and in employment. The "Jim Crow" laws in the South were abolished, and it became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing, or hiring. Enforcement powers were initially weak, but they grew over the years, and later programs (such as affirmative action) were made possible by the Act.
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Essay on The Civil Rights Movements of the 60?s\nThe Civil Rights Movements of the 60?s ... However this was the beginning of many future accomplishments.\nhttp://www.dedicatedwriters.com/paper/The_Civil_Rights_Movements_of_-120363.html
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I think it is possible to say without hesitation, equivocation, or fear of contradiction that the most important and far-reaching  event of Ike's admin was the ruling in the  Supreme Ct. decision in Brown vs. Board of  Education of Topeka, Kansas.  This set aside the doctrine of "separate but equal" vis-a-vis the seregation of  schools question and laid the groundwork for the many other  civil rights breakthroughs which would soon follow.  BROWN was truly a watershed case!!!  Look it up.
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Lyndon Johnson has been credited with being one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. Johnson does have some distracters who believe that he was merely an unprincipled politician who used the civil rights issue when he realised the worth of the "Black Vote". However Johnson himself claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Depends on the region of US.  The South was openly segregated through the '60's.  That's part of what the civil rights movement was about.
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Lyndon B Johnson's lasting contribution was that he was the first US President to take a strong stand and get the Federal Government involved in protecting the rights of African Americans.\n\nIn 1963, when Alabama Governor George Wallace refused to allow two black students to attend the University of Alabama, President Johnson sent in the National Guard to make sure they did.\n\nLyndon Johnson was a friend to Martin Luther King, Jr and his cause, and used his power as President to support it.  And THAT should be considered his lasting contribution.
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WEB Dubois used his analysis of the economic and social inequalities of blacks in many areas to argue against the accomidationist lectures of BT Washington.  This set a 50 year debate about the best way to advance the cause of black people- while Washington advocated ignoring social and political equality and liberal education for economic advancement and industrial education, WEB Dubois advocated the intellectual rise of blacks and resulting social equality, reasoning that the self-respect and respect of the rest of society would further equality more rapidly.  He feared that the long-term consequences of Washington's philopophy would result in blacks becoming an physical labor underclass...better off economically but trapped by a lack of any blacks with higher education and social status.  The entire story and analysis of the conflict between these absolutely brilliant thinkers in the early 1900's is fascinating and is incredibly relevant in the modern world-I would recommend study of this to anyone who wants to understand not just the plight of African-Americans, but the social philosophy underlying the advancement of women, Jews, and immigrants, and how each group chose different paths.
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."\nMartin Luther King Jr, US civil rights leader (1929-1968)
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That was the norm back then. They had to compromise on the slave situation or the Constitution would never have been ratified by all the states.  But the people who wrote the constitution provided a legal framework and a form of government that allowed for progress and the eventual provision of rights to blacks and women. That is what makes us a great nation now.
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1.  Trail of Tears\n\n2.  Jim Crowe Laws\n\n3.  Plessy v. Ferguson
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The emancipation proclamation freed the SLAVES in the SOUTH during the Civil War as declared by the US President, Abraham Lincoln.\n\nThe 13th amendment to the constitution FORBADE slavery throughout the United States after the war was over (and this was the legal freedom for slaves in the border states and NORTH).
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Question 1: \ni. a republican form of government \nii. ratify 13th Amendment \niii. entitle blacks to an education\n\nQuestion 2:\nAnalysis\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared free all slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government. This Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in border states fighting on the Union side; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states in rebellion did not act on Lincoln's order. But the proclamation did show Americans-- and the world--that the civil war was now being fought to end slavery. \n\nLincoln had been reluctant to come to this position. A believer in white supremacy, he initially viewed the war only in terms of preserving the Union. As pressure for abolition mounted in Congress and the country, however, Lincoln became more sympathetic to the idea. On Sept. 22, 1862, he issued a preliminary proclamation announcing that emancipation would become effective on Jan. 1, 1863, in those states still in rebellion. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in America--this was achieved by the passage of the 13TH Amendment to the Constitution on Dec. 18, 1865--it did make that accomplishment a basic war goal and a virtual certainty. \n\nQuestion3: no clue, just read this\nIn the Wake of the Reconstruction  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\na. Race Policy \ntoleration & moderation: black congressmen and rare public segregation \ntwo factors leading to deterioration: \ni. young blacks retrogressive, behaving like animals \nii. fear of miscegenation \niii. Populists disillusioned by black votes \niv. Northern acquiescence \nv. imperialist adventures: White Men's burden \nvi. social Darwinism; eugenics \nvii. economic depression: scapegoating\nb. Mississippi leading the way to disfranchise blacks (1888) \ni. poll tax \nii. residency requirement \niii. literacy test \niv. conviction \nv. grandfather clause\nc. State (14th Amendment) vs. individuals \nd. Separate but equal: Plessy v. Ferguson (1890); state could pass segregation laws \ne. The Debate between Book T. Washington (1856-1915) and W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1964): The Atlanta Compromise (1895) \nWashington: \ni. political rights and social privileges v. economic advances \nii. "Cast down the bucket where you are.  " \niii. "We have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigners can approach, ready to lay down our lives." \niv. "I do not believe that the Negro should cease voting, for a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote but I do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and character who are his next-door neighbor."\nDubois: \ni. political power \nii. civil rights \niii. higher education \niv. "It is utterly impossible, under modern competitve methods, for workingmen amd property owners to defend their rights and exist without the right of suffrage." \nv. "Silent submission to civic inferiority is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run."\nf. The Exclusion of Chinese Act (1882) \ni. when did the Chinese come? \nii. Central Pacific, Sierra Nevada (1865); 11,000 Chinese coolies \niii. They did not drink, strike or take a bath everyday \niv. 1,200 died \nv. 1867, 3,000 struck; 8-hour day and equal pay; $2 to $35 a month \nvi. 9/1868, broke through SN \nvii. 1871, 300,000 Chinese; 1877, depression; labor unrest (transparency) \nviii. 1882, Exclusion Act Passed \nviv. 1881, 40,000 entered; 1883, 23 allowed to enter\ng. Indian Removal \ni. The Sand Creek Massacre (1864): J. M. Chiving
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Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preachings of love and non-violent resistance, and Malcolm X, the fiery street preacher who advocated a bloody overthrow of the system, are both more closely associate in the popular mind and myth with the civil rights struggle. But it was Thurgood Marshall, working through the courts to eradicate the legacy of slavery and destroying the racist segregation system of Jim Crow, who had an even more profound and lasting effect on race relations than either of King or X.\n\nIt was Marshall who ended legal segregation in the United States. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, all of which overturned the 'Separate-but-Equal' apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. It was Marshall who won the most important legal case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. The success of the Brown case sparked the 1960s civil rights movement, led to the increased number of black high school and college graduates and the incredible rise of the black middle-class in both numbers and political power in the second half of the century.\n\nAnd it was Marshall, as the nation's first African-American Supreme Court justice, who promoted affirmative action -- preferences, set-asides and other race conscious policies -- as the remedy for the damage remaining from the nation's history of slavery and racial bias. Justice Marshall gave a clear signal that while legal discrimination had ended, there was more to be done to advance educational opportunity for people who had been locked out and to bridge the wide canyon of economic inequity between blacks and whites.\n\nHe worked on behalf of black Americans, but built a structure of individual rights that became the cornerstone of protections for all Americans.  He succeeded in creating new protections under law for women, children, prisoners, and the homeless. Their greater claim to full citizenship in the republic over the last century can be directly traced to Marshall. Even the American press had Marshall to thank for an expansion of its liberties during the century.\n\nMarshall's lifework, then, literally defined the movement of race relations through the century. He rejected King's peaceful protest as rhetorical fluff that accomplished no permanent change in society. And he rejected Malcolm X's talk of violent revolution and a separate black nation as racist craziness in a multi-racial society.\n\nThe key to Marshall's work was his conviction that integration -- and only integration -- would allow equal rights under the law to take hold. Once individual rights were accepted, in Marshall's mind, then blacks and whites could rise or fall based on their own ability.\n\nMarshall's deep faith in the power of racial integration came out of a middle class black perspective in turn of the century Baltimore. He was the child of an activist black community that had established its own schools and fought for equal rights from the time of the Civil War. His own family, of an interracial background, had been at the forefront of demands by Baltimore blacks for equal treatment. Out of that unique family and city was born Thurgood Marshall, the architect of American race relations in the twentieth century.\n\nAfter Marshall died in 1993 there was still no authoritative, thorough account of his life and the impact his work had on the nation. The combination of his reclusiveness and his standing in popular culture as an elderly, establishment figure blinded much of the nation to the importance of Marshall's work. Young people were especially uninformed abou
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Two come to mind quickly.\n\nClara Barton- she did heroic work with her life, the heart of a lion that woman and she established the Red Cross.\n\nMartin Luther King Jr.- always admired him. I think he stands for every American's American Dream....one of a better life.\n\nThe idea is new so I  would go with a quarter on both.
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Unfortunately, slavery was a vital institution for the economic well being of the South. Whenever the issue of slavery came up during the drafting of the Constitution, arguments between North and South arose, which was one of the precursors to the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise, the 2/3 Compromise, both dealt with the issue of slavery and how far north it could extend. Southerners referred to it as a "necessary evil", a bad thing, but nevertheless it was vital to the South's economy, and also the nation as a whole.
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The 13th Amendment (banning slavery, 1865), the 14th Amendment (declaring, inter alia, those born here are citizens, 1868) and the 15th Amendment (banning discrimination on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude, 1870).