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What is Civil Rights Movement

Comparing Black Deaths in Custody, Police Brutality, and Social Justice Solutions
A movement launched from approximately 1954 to 1968, which aimed at ending discrimination, institutional racism, segregation, and the like within the United States. Some of its leaders were people like Medgar Evers, Louis Farrakhan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, et al.’
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Transitioning Governments and Laws
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9304-2.ch001
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This chapter focuses on governments, what type of government each country has, and how these governments transitioned as laws changed regarding within each country. Some references will be made to Australian and South African laws in comparison to the United States. For example, South Africa was a tribal land that became an Apartheid state that then became a democracy. The chapter will mainly focus on introducing the reader to each system of government and discuss any transitions in types of government. These instances will be reviewed, analyzed, and discussed. For more specific country-case-specific laws, see the three chapters on case studies.
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Negotiating the Memory of the American Civil War
A campaign by African Americans and their allies to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and racial segregation in the United States.
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