Do you consider the murder of President Kennedy to have been committed by Lee Harvey Oswald or do you subscribe to the conspiracy theory?

Do you consider the murder of President Kennedy to have been committed by Lee Harvey Oswald or do you subscribe to the conspiracy theory? What caused you to doubt the findings of the Warren commission and who in the final analysis do you think is responsible? It is an extremely difficult task to sit at home and write a detailed account on a controversial event that shocked the world 37 years ago. Ten months after the tragedy took place, an inquiry headed by Chief Justice Warren had reached a much-debated conclusion to the mystery surrounding the President's untimely death. The date was 22nd November 1963 and at 11:40 on that sunny Friday morning the President had arrived at Love Field Airport, Dallas. It was Kennedy's own decision to ride through the streets of Dallas to raise his popularity, which at that time was flagging .In the car that morning was Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, and Governor Connally and his wife. The motorcade had planned to turn down into Main Street where the crowds were waiting but instead turned into Houston Street, the car at this time travelling at 15 mph, it then turned into Elm street and the speed of car was then 11 mph .The next events are much disputed by people. All we know for sure is that a number of shots are fired and one hits Kennedy fatally in the back of the head, and that Connally is also injured in the shooting. Pandemonium then

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Do you agree that Martin Luther King was the most important factor in helping Black Americans gain more Civil Rights in the 1960's? Explain your answer.

Do you agree that Martin Luther King was the most important factor in helping Black Americans gain more Civil Rights in the 1960's? Explain your answer. In this essay I am going to out line the problems for Black Americans and why they wanted to gain civil rights. I am also going to write about what they achieved and how they gained the civil rights, what and who were the biggest factors in the fight for Blacks American's freedom. This essay is to find out if Martin Luther King was the biggest factor in helping Blacks gain civil rights or was he just one of many. The White Americans did not look at Black Americans as Americans. They were looked upon, as black people who did not deserve a life or a chance to become anything other than what they were originally brought to America for, slavery. White Americans treated black people with no respect, as if they were animals. Blacks were beaten to death and murdered and they realized that they deserved what white people had, civil rights. The right to be paid for their work, the right to and education, the right to live in a home with a family and not be owned as if they were property. This is when black people took every chance to be recognized as human and tried to gain civil rights. Black people did not want to fight; they wanted to peacefully gain respect. When black people started to stand up for themselves whites were

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Political Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - a comparison.

Political Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - a comparison Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting for the civil rights of the African American people. Both men were born as sons of black baptist preachers in the southern states of America in the 1920s, and were early confronted with racism, violence and segregation. Both men climbed up to be the most popular and disputed leaders of the Black Society in the 1950s and 60s. By different methods Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X achieved great progress in the American society. Both men did never deviate from their beliefs or compromised them. They repre-sented the incarnation of integrity. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X gave their lives by trying to fight against the wrong and standing up against injustice. They battled for the rights of black people, to be acknowledged and treated like human beings and not like second-class citizens. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were human rights leaders. The major difference between these two men was, that King followed the way of non-violence, like his ideal Mahatma Ghandi did in India, to break the walls of oppression. Malcolm X had chosen the radical way. He wanted to gain "freedom - by any means necessary." (Breitman, George, ed. Malcolm X Speaks, p. 135-136). Malcolm didn´t want to talk about the problems the afroamerican had

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: compared and contrasted There are key ideas raised by the lives of these two individuals who were so similar in terms of race, nationality and historical period, yet so different in the way they addressed some major ethical issues of their time. The fundamental ideas cluster around themes of rights, equality, separatism versus communitarianism, as well as social and economic issues and justice. Both men wanted the same thing; civil rights for black people, but chose totally different routes in attempting to achieve this. I will attempt to philosophically analyse why this was the case. The first fundamental factor in forming their views must have been their cultural and family backgrounds, and their personal history. Luther King Jr was born into a. into a middle-class Baptist family, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement. There are stories about how he experienced segregation as a young boy, yet both his parents gave him positive and visionary explanations (1). As a bright student and an able orator, he entered college and decided to become a Christian minister. 'I'm the son of a preacher . . . my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher, so

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Freedom in the United States.

Freedom in the United States No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms of the freedom of expression. When it comes to evaluating the degree to which we take advantage of the opportunity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Amendment by publicly offending others through obscenity or racism. Americans have developed a distinct disposition toward the freedom of expression throughout history. The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its

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Freedom Come, Freedom Go

Elizabeth Chun Kris Bromberger Writing 39B December 8, 2003 Freedom Come, Freedom Go The ignominy of repressed freedom and equality for the black community has been rhetorically expressed throughout the past century, with the sole purpose of achieving widespread recognition for civil and human rights. The struggle for African-American egalitarianism reached its defining moment by 1964, when aspiring leaders, specifically Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, manifested their indictments through colorful orations, directed toward both the white and black community across America. In King's speech, "I Have a Dream," the entire nation is presented with an "uncompromising critique of injustice" from an eschatological view of the country itself (Lischer 8). Malcolm X, on the other hand, delivers a blazing allocution entitled "The Black Revolution," before an audience consisting primarily of Caucasians, informing them of the violent reality of the civil rights movement. At the same time however, both speakers attempt to draw sympathy and ignite a sense of awareness of the injustice and suffering caused by racism, segregation, and discrimination toward the black populace. King and X achieve this effect by strategically utilizing florid diction and appealing to their audience's compassion, rationality, and assuring the people of their credibility. Dr. Martin Luther King,

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"I'm going to be the perfect champion-like the young Joe Louis. I'm clean living; I haven't got a prison record. I think you got to be an idol for young people" Ali 1963. Did Muhammad Ali actually achieve this quote?

BY AUSTIN HARPER LEE9 "I'm going to be the perfect champion-like the young Joe Louis. I'm clean living; I haven't got a prison record. I think you got to be an idol for young people" Ali 1963. Did Muhammad Ali actually achieve this quote? It has been said that there are few opportunities in life to prove yourself a man; Muhammad Ali took advantage of every one that came his way, in doing so became loved by not only his countrymen, but also the world, and became immortal in his own time. In this essay I will discuss about if this boxing great really did cause a stir among the people of the world, what factors helped him, his moral and religious beliefs and did he really achieve what he set out to do in the quote above. It all started on an October afternoon in 1954 when Cassius Marcellus Clay was 12. He left his $60 red Schwinn outside the Columbia Auditorium to visit a bazaar. When he and his friends returned he realized that his new bike had been stolen. Cassius was in a tearing rage and someone told Clay that there was a police officer in the basement of a boxing gym. He went in demanding a statewide bike hunt and threatening to beat the hell out of whoever had stolen it. The officer Joe Martin asked Cassius if he could fight, and Cassius said no, so Martin invited him to come to the gym and learn how to box, so when the time came he could get pay back on the bicycle

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Civil rights movement - questions and answers.

History Coursework Final Draft Q1. Describe the disadvantages that Black Americans faced in the early 1950's. Slavery engraved itself on southerners even after the Civil War in which slavery was abolished in 1865. White people still had it cemented in their minds that blacks were slaves and blacks will always be slaves. The slaves were emancipated but not in the minds of the white slave owners. In the early 1950's the Jim Crow laws were a huge disadvantage for the blacks after the civil war. The Jim Crow laws were meant to keep everything separate but equal. It was certainly separate but definitely not equal! The Jim Crow laws were made for people that couldn't afford poll tax and if you couldn't afford it then you couldn't vote and as the black people had the worst paid jobs and even in the same jobs the black people would have lower wages than the white employees, it meant they could afford poll tax and so they were politically excluded from the vote. It was a vicious circle. Even after the Jim Crow laws first came about the black people were still a lot worse off than the white people. Black people in Southern states were in disadvantage, in the eyes of whites they were inferior. They still had worst paid jobs, lived in poorest areas, they had separate toilets, and buses, fountains, beaches and they even had separate education. White people got better facilities than the

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How did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X influence the Black people's oppression in North America?

How did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X influence the Black people's oppression in North America? Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X grew up in different environments. King Jr. was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from an underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received very little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established despite segregation; Martin Luther King Jr.'s parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. In contrast, Malcolm X was born and raised in a completely different atmosphere than King; an atmosphere that was filled with fear and anger. Martin Luther King was one of the first, and certainly the most effective of the civil rights leaders that led the struggle into the North. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15 to Alberta Williams King and Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. In 1935-1944 Martin attended and finished his early education at David T. Howard Elementary School and Atlanta University Laboratory School. He attended Booker T. Washington High School and left before graduation due to his acceptance and early admission in Atlanta's Morehouse College program for advanced placement In the Fall of 1944. He

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Do you agree that Martin Luther king was the most important factor in the helping blacks gain more Civil Rights in the 1960's? Explain your answer.

Do you agree that Martin Luther king was the most important factor in the helping blacks gain more Civil Rights in the 1960's? Explain your answer. In the 1950s and 60s blacks were considered as second-class citizens of the US, this was evident as they were totally ignored by the rest of America. Even though slavery was abolished years before but many Southern white Americans had not blacked out the thought. The Americans themselves had just come out of a very deadly war, which was fought to defeat racially prejudiced leaders such as Hitler who believed in a superior race; but still in America the cause they fought for was still lurking in their homeland. Blacks had also fought in the war and felt content that when they return home life would change for the better, but that wasn't quite the case when they returned. The minds of whites had not changed even after the fact that blacks had contributed to the war as well as the whites and, this feeling was transparently displayed by the whites situated in southern states; apart from having very menial jobs, segregation had also become a big part of their existence. Whites had separate restaurants, waiting rooms, laundrettes and drinking fountains. The subject that highlighted segregation was the case of Southern schools being segregated, which caused the blacks to be deprived of their equal educational rights; giving the whites a

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