Há quarenta anos, Washington viveu uma semana de horror e terror após o assassinato de Martin Luther King a 4 de Abril de 1968, cinco anos apos o assassinato de John F. Kennedy, quando movimento pelos direitos cívicos tinha ganho maior ímpeto. Com a morte de King, a carta de alforria da população norte americana não branca acabou por ser definitivamente outorgada e iniciada uma fase histórica que pode culminar este ano com a eleição de Obama como presidente dos EUA.
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Só aqueles que ainda não viveram o suficiente para ter maior sensibilidade da velocidade a que atravessamos o tempo podem desvalorizar as enormes alterações que se observaram em tão curto período histórico.
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The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from White domination.
Many of those who were most active in the Civil Rights Movement, with organizations such as SNCC, CORE and SCLC, prefer the term "Southern Freedom Movement" because the struggle was about far more than just civil rights under law; it was also about fundamental issues of freedom, respect, dignity, and economic and social equality.
Many of those who were most active in the Civil Rights Movement, with organizations such as SNCC, CORE and SCLC, prefer the term "Southern Freedom Movement" because the struggle was about far more than just civil rights under law; it was also about fundamental issues of freedom, respect, dignity, and economic and social equality.
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