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The Civil Right Act of 1964 is when laws ensured constitutional rights for African Americans and other minorities. This event happened on January of 1964 in Dallas Texas. The main people in this photo are LBJ the President and MLK an activist and civil rights leader and the state congress in the back. LBJ and MLK are connected to this photo because LBJ was the one who signed the act to law and MLK was there to show his gratitude for the passing of the law. When i look at this photo i feel happy because everyone in the picture came to an agreement to sign the civil rights act and give African Americans the rights they deserved. This event in the picture connects to the freedom that African americans get today, we do not struggle with this problem today but some people still don’t like the fact that African Americans get their freedoms. MLK and LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to give african americans their rights. No one is missing in the picture. There are no signs in the picture. The picture connects to my topic because the president signs the civil Rights act and shakes MLK’s hand to show that the law was passed and shows peace. 

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The Civil Right Act of 1964 is when laws ensured constitutional rights for African Americans and other minorities. This event happened on January of 1964 in Dallas Texas. The main people in this photo are LBJ the President and MLK an activist and civil rights leader and the state congress in the back. LBJ and MLK are connected to this photo because LBJ was the one who signed the act to law and MLK was there to show his gratitude for the passing of the law. When i look at this photo i feel happy because everyone in the picture came to an agreement to sign the civil rights act and give African Americans the rights they deserved. This event in the picture connects to the freedom that African americans get today, we do not struggle with this problem today but some people still don’t like the fact that African Americans get their freedoms. MLK and LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to give african americans their rights. No one is missing in the picture. There are no signs in the picture. The picture connects to my topic because the president signs the civil Rights act and shakes MLK’s hand to show that the law was passed and shows peace. 

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MLK, he was a part of the civil rights movement he fought... by patrick

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The Salem March was a political march from Salem, Alabama, to the state’s capital Montgomery, that occurred March 21-25, 1965. It was led by - Martin Luther King Jr. The march was the cultivating event of several tumultuous weeks during which demonstrators twice attempted to March but were stopped, once violently by local police. This directly led to the passage of the voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1963 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had done what they can best  to register African American voters in Dallas county in central Alabama. The focus of those efforts was the county seat, Selma where only about 1-2 percent of eligible black voters were registered.

The march resumed on Sunday March 21, with court protection through Federal District court judge M. Johnson, Jr, who had overviewed the right to march for African Americans and the mobility they had for being African American in favor of judge M. Johnson. This time, 3,200, versus and initial 600, Marchers had headed east out of Selma across the Edmund Pettos Bridge and onto montgomery. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25 they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months later, president lyndon Johnson signed the voting Rights Act of 1965…. In the best way to fix how wrong/unfair the African Americans are being treated. As for today African Americans are equal to the whites now better than they were in the 60’s but still do get treated differently by the police force.

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The march took place in Selma, Alabama on March, 21-25, 1... by Xavier Flores

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SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was the most important organization in the Civil Rights movement. This organization focused on desegregating  public facilities and encouraged African Americans to unite and control the direction of their struggle in the Civil Rights movement. SNCC found different ways to protest segregation and discrimination, including the famous sit ins at lunch counters that were closed to African Americans. SNCC also played a huge role in the Freedom Rides, which aimed to desegregate busses, as well as marches. In 1966, Stokely Carmichael  was elected head of SNCC and made the term Black Power known. Carmichael gave SNCC new tactics such as violence is to be used as a legitimate means of self-defense. Black Power in the SNCC meant violence and self-defense was valued when defending one’s freedom. In today’s society, we continue to struggle with racial discrimination, for example the Executive Order 13769 that President Donald Trump enabled on Jan. 27, 2017, banning airplanes coming from the ten major Muslim countries.

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The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. Young Collegiate students would go down south using freedom buses and try to sign up African American people to enable them to vote. The Freedom Riders were inspired by 2 supreme court decisions, one was in 1946 and another was in 1960. In those two decisions the United States Supreme Court rules that “Segregation in interstate commerce was unconstitutional.” Glenda Gaither Davis, sister of CORE field secretary Tom Gaither part of the first group of eight Freedom Riders attempted to use the white restroom and was arrested and put into jail for 60 days with a 200$ fine. Pauline Knight-Ofosu was arrested for leading a hunger strike for female riders. Mae Francis Moultrie was severely injured on May 14 by a bunch of angry Klan mob that bombed the bus that she was in, she was hospitalized but the interracial group was not allowed to spend the night. When I look at this photo I see people standing and sitting outside of a bus looking at papers and I feel that those papers have a bunch of information about voting rights and how they can make themselves able to vote legally, and the N.A.A.C.P. is on a sign which is attached to the bus and the that phrase is the National Association for the advancement of colored people. Young college students want more people to have voting rights even if they’re African american because due to the Generation gap and the counterculture, young people wanted more for people, and wanted more people to have more opportunities, and for everyone to be equal. So like today more young people want everyone to stay in this country no matter the race because everyone is just human and race and choice of religion does not define a person, but Donald trump wants to kick out every single Muslim or Arabic just because of our past experiences with the Taliban and ISIS. The S.N.C.C stands for student nonviolence coordinating committee and this is the college students trying to make a difference.

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This stands for the National Association for the Advancem... by Frank Pinedo

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In 1964, Freedom Summer was a voter registration project in Mississippi by civil rights groups such as Congress on Racial Equality and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to expand African American voting in the South. The events that surrounded Freedom Summer was the Voting Rights Act, and the 14h amendment. The Voting Rights Act was the aim to overcome legal barriers such as voter suppression, and fraud. The 14th amendment was to declare that for all people that were born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans. The SNCC was the Student National Coordinating Committee. This organized voter registration drive, known as the Mississippi Summer Project or Freedom Riders which was to increase voter registration. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed so that younger African Americans can have more of a voice in the civil rights movement which became one of the movement’s more radical branches.The Council of Federated Organization, COFO, was an umbrella organization that united several groups involved in the civil rights campaign in Mississippi. COFO was involved in voter registration and public accommodations desegregation campaigns throughout the state. In November 1963, around a hundred of white college students had helped COFO register voters and a few hundred more students were invited for Freedom Summer which expanded voter registration project.

In the photo above, I would have to say it is understandable that the African Americans are getting notified and informed about voter registration by white man who is explaining. This photo connects to today by the idea about being registered. An example would be Hispanics trying to get registered as a citizen they will have the right to vote as an American citizen. This picture connects to my topic, Freedom Summer, by having the right to be a registered voter.

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The SNCC are registering African Americans for voting rig... by Noelia Martinez

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Ella Baker was a civil rights activist who fought for equal rights for African Americans throughout the United States. She organized the Young Negroes Cooperative League and later became national director of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . She later joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference but then left and joined The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After joining the SNCC, her and the other members formed the Mississippi Freedom Democracy Party. The Mississippi Freedom Democracy Party was formed as an alternative to the state’s Democratic party, which held segregationist views. Ella Baker worked with various civil rights groups to help bring attention to the Civil Rights issue within the country.

Ella Baker and other civil rights activists are shown promoting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The MFDP was formed to help incorporate African Americans into the Democratic Party meetings. The MFDP protested, in 1964, at an all white National Democratic Convention, in Atlanta in efforts to gain voting rights . The MFDP were offered two non-voting seats but declined. The offer was declined because it did not allow them to vote. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ultimately failed their mission to vote at the convention but did bring more attention to the issue.

From then to now, African Americans have gained the right to vote along with many other rights but still face discrimination throughout the country. A new civil rights movement has begun which is known as the Black Live Matter movement. The BLM was founded by Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, who are civil rights activists much like Ella Baker.

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Ella Baker , Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Atlant... by Destiny Gonzales

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Summary Paragraph:

On August 28, 1963,  200,000 plus Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally. They marched for equal access to jobs and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. African Americans had endured harsh laws, known as Jim Crow in the South. Jim Crow Laws existed in states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas.  They were created during the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. These laws prohibited newly freed African Americans from accessing certain specific Civil Rights. For example: education, voting, jobs, government positions, and housing.  These laws were still being used in the 1960s.  The people that marched on Washington, D.C. in 1963, wanted the government to pay attention and take action against these political and social challenges African Americans were facing in the country.  This march included people from all ethnic backgrounds across the nation, not just African Americans. Other groups who could not March on Washington chose to show their support by marching in their hometowns. Like the picture to the left, from Maine.  Martin Luther King Jr.  Spoke at this rally.  He gave his famous

“I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  He spoke about his dream of a country where his four children could live in a nation where they would not be judged by the color of their skin but instead by the content of their character.  This march and speech were the beginning of a long hard fought battle for African American civil rights.

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