The Era

             The Civil Rights Movement was everything emotional that fueled the physical. As with every movement there are leaders and with leaders come followers who share the same belief.
             Martin Luther King Jr. was the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King was also a very active clergyman who landed the cover of Time magazine as " Man of the Year" in 1964. King was a powerful speaker, he had a tireless ambition in the fight for black freedom and won worldwide fame for his efforts. All his efforts awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.
             Peace was not always what some fighting for black rights believed in, leader Malcolm X was full of hatred towards the white man. The tragic childhood he lived and the murder of his father by whites strengthened his belief that the white man was the devil. Malcolm X was a believer of Islam and started a nation-wide movement and an increase in the idea that " the white man is the devil" . His speeches were based solely upon the theory that all whites were evil, in 1963 Malcolm branched his belief out to 30,000 people. At the peak of his power Malcolm was the most influential voice of black Americans.
             Black Americans had different ideas about how freedom should come about but they all had the same objective, to be equal. President Kennedy supported the movement for desegregation of schools and public facilities. Attorney General Robert Kennedy took more than 50 cases in four states to insure black Americans' the right to vote. President Johnson was committed to equal rights for all and he signed the two most outstanding legislation of the movement--the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
             Television has the power to make Americans laugh, love, and hate, in the 1950's though the 1960's this was evident.
             From 1950 to 1965 the number of households with television climbed from 3.9 million to 52.7 million. Popular shows like...

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