the civil rights movement
The Civil Rights movement was galvanized during the years of World War II, as black soldiers fighting for democracy abroad wanted their own democratic rights respected at home, and as major American cities saw drastic demographic shifts as African-American families mobilized to gain jobs in the defense industry, in the factories and shipyards of the north and west coast. While the Movement started with small acts of defiance, which Bobby Kennedy later called "small ripples of hope," it soon became a major national movement, with the eyes of the world watching. The United States is the stalwart of democracy around the world, and yet it had to confront its own hypocrisy in its deial of African Americans civil rights and racial justice. Leaders such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Ruby Bridges, Medgar Evers, the Little Rock Nine, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey Newton launched a movement with their courage, and started a national conversation that still continues to this day.
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