CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BENEFITED 10-20 BILLION PEOPLE

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BENEFITED 10-20 BILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE

WORLD SINCE ITS INCEPTION.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLK

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was one

of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was

a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black

men at the time.

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Civil rights movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States refers in part to a set

of noted events and reform movements in that country aimed at

abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination and racism

against African Americans between 1954 to 1968, particularly in the

southern United States.

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Did the civil rights movement have an impact on the whole of the US

population or just African-Americans?

http://www.crmvet.org/faq/faqallus.htm

Bruce Hartford:

I think one big way in which it had an affect on everybody is that

prior to the Movement we had been brought up in an environment in

which if you want something changed, you either asked your politician

to pass a law or you go to court and sue. But change was not something

that you could do or influence yourself. I think the Civil Rights

movement taught a whole generation that you can go out and take charge

of your own history. I think people have done that in an enormous

variety of ways. People of our generation went out and did everything

from getting stop signs put in on their corner to starting whole

social movements. It certainly reinvigorated the labor movement. I

think that Cesar Chavez and that whole movement directly flew out of

the Civil Rights movement.

And directly growing out of the Civil Rights Movement were similar

movements on behalf of women, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, the

disabled and others. Many of the legal rights won by the Civil Rights

Movement were applied to all those groups, and their movements used

many of the same strategies, tactics, and arguments as the Civil

Rights Movement. The student free speech movement was started by

veterans of the Freedom Movement, and many Movement veterans were

active leaders in the anti-Vietnam war movement. Today, the gay rights

movement is using many of the strategies and tactics of the Civil

Rights Movement.

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/gcse/Ireland/civilrightsmovement.htm

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was an organization

which campaigned for civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic

minority during the 1960s and early 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Civil_Rights_Association#Origins

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German Student Movement

Main article: German student movement

See also: Red Army Faction and German Autumn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_student_movement

The German student movement (in Germany commonly called "68er-

Bewegung", "movement of 1968") was a protest movement that took place

during the late 1960s in Germany.

The movement took place mostly among disillusioned students and was

largely a protest movement analogous to others around the globe during

the late 1960s.

German student movement

http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Edgilfill/dreamwork.html

These words were penned by Ulrike Meinhof in 1968 and poignantly

illustrate the turbulent atmosphere of student unrest prevalent in the

late 1960's in the Federal Republic of Germany. United by their

disdain for the fascistic and imperialistic facets of capitalism,

symbolized by the United States and NATO's advance of Cold War

politics in southeast Asia, these students staged teach-ins, sit-ins

and non-violent demonstrations as pressure tactics to gain political

leverage.

Red Army Faction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

The Red Army Faction or RAF (German Rote Armee Fraktion) (in its early

stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group [or Gang]), was one of

postwar West Germany's most active and prominent militant left-wing

groups. It described itself as a communist "urban guerrilla" group

engaged in armed resistance, while it was described by the West German

government as a terrorist group. The RAF was formally founded in 1970

by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof,

Irmgard M

>CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BENEFITED 10-20 BILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE

>WORLD

Damn. That's a lot of checks to write.

- KODIAK