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Welcome folks! This is the Wiki that I have been talking about the last couple of weeks in class. Here I hope that we all can contribute and end up with a good understanding of what the Civil Rights Movement is all about. Notice that I say is, not was. This is due to the fact that I think that this is a movement that is still in progress, even though many African Americans experience an easyer life in our current decade than they experienced back in the 1960s.

What is the best way to deal with this subject that most of you have said that you feel that you have little or no knowledge of? Well, we are not going to say anything final at this point - let us see in which directions this project will lead us.

No matter how we end up, I think that there are certain things you have to know about to be able to deal with this difficult subject.

On Page 1 you will find main people within the movement. Many of you have heard about Martin Luther King jr, some of you have probably heard about Rosa Parks, while others maybe have heard about or seen the movie about Malcom X. The work with this Wiki will show what other people we will look upon as important within this movement that has played such an important role in American history.

On Page 2 you can read about h istorical events that had an impact on the movement. When I show you where Montgomery, Alabama is on the map, I am sure that a lot of you will remember som fragments of the story about the black woman who refused to give her seat to a white man who entered the bus. I am also sure that many of you will understand more about racial segregation when we look at the young black students who tried to attend schools that historically only had had white students.

On Page 3 we will deal with legislation that influenced the movement. Does not the American Constitution say something about that all people are created equal? Wasn't that the reason that people went to America, to get away from racism and stuff like that? And how about that tall white guy with the beard, Abe Lincoln - didn't he free the slaves? Were the blacks in the United States freed in the 1860s or the 1960s? This wiki will possibly answer your questions!

//Dr. Martin Luther King jr. delivered this speech in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 - the day before he was shot and killed.//

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