Sentences with phrase «civil rights movements»

aka civil rights movements, labour movement, and the rise of the modern 99 % movements.

The fact the founders are «young, female, queer - friendly, [and] artsy» [5] sets them apart from all other civil rights movements.

He was progressive in many ways and was obviously groundbreaking in civil rights movements, which now, includes gays.

Also, what you are engaging in here is akin to what is known as respectability politics in the civil rights movements.

The influence of Gandhi on American pacifism and the development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movements deserves careful study.

He was a living link between two civil rights movements.

His songs «Blowin» in the Wind» and «The Times They are A-Changin»» were anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements.

In the face of a growing religious right - wing backlash against civil rights movements, reactionary Christians and radical feminists alike have advocated a choice: either accept Christian teaching or become liberated and leave the bondage of patriarchal religion behind.

Perhaps a desire to renew this validation accounts for the religious left's determination to frame issues as new civil rights movements.

what about the civil rights movements when black people would get tried, on false accusations, and lynched?

Where as (following the suffrage and civil rights movements) they have taken Biblical references regarding women and slavery and rightly applied cultural context to them, they have not done the same regarding gays and lesbians.

Civil rights movements often embrace boycotts.

As a student, he was active in the Civil Rights movement and served as an usher at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr..

The FBI's list of targets included the Civil Rights movement, and public enemy number one was Dr. Martin Luther King.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

Her act served as a symbol for the civil rights movement and springboard for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The festival of lights, which is rich with symbolism, was conceived during one of darkest periods in Los Angeles» history, during a key moment in the civil rights movement.

Especially millennials and older African - Americans, who've been through the civil rights movement and have seen it.

One of the most pressing was the civil rights movement.

By contrast, she writes, King «situated the civil rights movement within the broader landscape of history — time past, present, and future — and within the timeless vistas of Scripture.»

As Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has pointed out, prior to the speech, King had established his bona fides as a leader of the civil rights movement.

Of course, in business, your big picture is not going to be something as life - changing as the civil rights movement.

He makes a smart case for the paradoxically fierce power of nonviolent resistance, like that of the civil rights movement.

Formative experiences for the leading - edge boomer include the Cold War and nuclear threat, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the draft, the assassination of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, and Watergate.

But the country's changing demographics, the civil rights movement and a push for multiculturalism in many quarters mean that white Americans are now confronting the prospect of a nation that is no longer built solely around their own identity.

She is credited with helping to shape Mr. Buffett's liberal politics — along with a reaction to his beloved father's conservative principles — through her interest in the civil rights movement.

We do, however, recognize that civil disobedience has historically been an effective tactic for systemic change, from suffragettes to the civil rights movement, to Gandhi's Salt March to anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

The BCRI is, in large part, a museum of the civil rights movement; it is not only interesting and informative, but it is deeply powerful and affecting to see how white Americans (mis) treated African Americans, what motivated civil rights activists, and what they faced in their activism.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D - CA) said on Monday that the gun - control March for Our Lives rallies reminded her of the 1960s civil rights movement.

Any time there is some discussion about «gay rights», some misinformed person always brings up the civil rights movement.

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

King stood for civil rights, and the civil rights movement represents all forms of civil rights.

The Civil Rights movement was about about the equality of Man (& Women) and about how everyone has the same inalienable rights and that bigotry and racism can no longer exclude an entire segment of society.

To put it simply, it was mostly a one issue (Black rights) civil rights movement.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

The brutality of the police in the south being shown on TV helped win sympathy for the civil rights movement in the sixties.

That you would describe such filth as «culture» of any kind is a slap in the face to Dr. King and the rest of the civil rights movement.

«We were focusing on politics in the U.S. and did want to touch on bigger well - known stories like music in the civil rights movement,» Cavicchi continues.

To be clear MLK was a great hero of the Civil Rights movement.

It is a sad testament to America's continued racism and segregation that half a century after the Civil Rights movement and MLK Jr. this is still considered news: that whites and blacks intermingle.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

Then there was a thing called «the movement» (often capitalized as The Movement), which was a frequently confused mix of agitations coming out of the civil rights movement, joining up with opposition to the war in Vietnam, and linking hands with a «counterculture» that embraced everything from pharmaceutical ecstasies to flirting with revolutionary violence.

Check out concerts in various places around Washington, D.C., reflections on the civil rights movement and a closing service at the National Cathedral remembering King's life.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

By next summer the Occupy movement will be larger than the Civil Rights movement and the anti war movement of the 60's.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

Hoover asked for and got reports that judged communist influence in the civil rights movement «vitally important» even though his bureau had found it an «obvious failure.»

After the civil rights movement and the abolishment of segregation other tactics were used to keep blacks in all black communities.

The fact is that before the civil rights movement the republicans in the south were recieving plenty of aid, and as soon as the social programs for blacks began kicking in suddenly no one wanted to pay taxes anymore.

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.