Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Republican Party.
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One of the most important figures in the American Civil Rights Movement is none other than social activist and humanitarian, Martin Luther King Jr. A Baptist minister inspired by other advocates of nonviolence, King encouraged oppressed and socially disadvantaged African-Americans to fight for equality through peaceful protest. Although he was assassinated in April 1968, King helped to end legal segregation, a key driving force behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In remembrance of King himself, here are 10 facts you should know.
On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.
The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. Social reformers were primarily middle-class citizens who targeted political machines and their bosses.