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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at one personal account, as well as specific incidents and important aspects of the movement. An overview of the nigrescence theory is also provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Rights Movement from her own personal perspective. In reviewing her work, it pays to know a bit about her history. This autobiographical account reveals that she helped to register
black voters in a time when they were not encouraged to vote. She herself had been touched by racism and had witnessed the racially motivated shootings of the 1960s that
were so prevalent at the time, and she even lost an uncle in one of those incidents. Moody herself grew up black and poor in the south. It is
a stereotype, but one which would set the tone for the Civl Rights era in the first place. Many who are about Anne Moodys age may remember passing through the
rural South and seeing a multitude of little shacks. Northerners wondered how they could live like that. Indeed, that is what the author recalls; she describes her home and the
homes of her neighbors as follows: "We all lived in rotten wood two-room shacks" (Moody, 1997, p.11). In reading Moodys account, one is prompted to know more. What was the
civil rights era like and what did it accomplish? When the civil rights movement began, large segments of the populace, primarily African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not
always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic (Foner & Garraty, 1991). The most important achievements of African-American civil rights protests had occurred during the fifties and sixties,
and was dubbed the civil rights era. Most notably was the Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision in 1954 which determined that separate but equal facilities
could not exist in reality (1991). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were also important pieces of legislation (1991). While the civil
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