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The Civil Rights Act - An Overview

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the Civil Rights Act. All eleven titles are examined in detail, with emphasis on tit...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

Defending Immigration, the Immorality of Racism

This essay presents an argument based on the idea that fear of immigration, which is promoted by conservatives, is unraveling the ...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

Human Resources and the Impact of Government

made up of the houses of Congress, is undoubtedly one of the most influential branches of government as far as business is concern...

Gay Marriages - Arguments For and Against

barred from as the result of a ban on gay marriage, and for many this is simply unfair. More fundamental, however, are the argumen...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

Overview: The Civil Rights Movement

This research paper presents an overview of the history of the civil rights movement. The major major events that characterize thi...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Mass Media's Influence

This essay uses the Civil Rights movement and the invasion of Iraq as examples of how the influence of the mass media has had a se...

The Quest for Civil Rights

This paper outlines some of the important chapters of the Civil Rights Movement. There are five sources in this ten page paper. ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

Title VII - Outlawing Racial Discrimination

understand what constitutes discrimination, but in some cases, what seems wrong may not be wrong in law. Discrimination remains a ...

Medgar Evers/His Legacy

In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

The Patriot Act

knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson, 2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Education: Crime and Civil Rights

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

Employment: Civil Rights

have been various statutes that have aimed at changing and eliminating discrimination that involve religion, sex, race, age and ma...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...