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  1. The civil rights movement began to protect Catholics from poverty. All they wanted was for Catholics to have equal rights. On the surface the government seemed to be helping. The reason being there were 100 years of conflict between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, also influenced by American civil rights and students from France and Germany. Even if you had a degree at university it was difficult to find work even though they had skills and qualities. Marches were inspired my students and Martin Luther King.

  1. This source is quite reliable because someone who was a leading catholic member of the civil rights movement wrote it for a book, so this person would have been very involved. It was near the time and written within living memories. Also civil rights movements are still going on. However, as this person was a catholic it is possible he could have been biased its also 6 to 7 years after the movement started. It was E.McCann’s book so it was his interpretation and his experience. Also the title ‘War’ this period was welfare conflict.

  1. We can learn quite a lot form this source, we can see that they are religious and are aware of politics hence the banners. We can also see from this picture that it is a non-violent march and there are lots of people there both men and women. However we couldn’t learn a great deal because its only one picture which shows us only one march also this picture could be stage or tampered with or even a selective picture. I know from my own knowledge that there were violent marches. Also I know that students of Belfast followed out marches without permission of the civil rights.
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  1. I think source B could be useful because it shows us the types of people and the amount of people there was, it also shows us that there were marches and they were peaceful and the people had religious and political beliefs, However, it isn’t really useful because it only shows us one photo and that one could be staged. Source C is useful because its and eyewitness in 1968 this is also reliable. It also describes a march as well as the types of people and what happened in these marches. We can also see that the ...

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