SEARCH RESULTS

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

In a paper consisting of 6 pages de las Casas' involvement in the Americas' Spanish colonization is examined along with his crusad...

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

would give him later during his political career for he realized that most of the people he would be gaining votes from were more ...

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

2002). In the wake of the bus boycott launched by black residents in 1955 in response to the Rosa Parks incident on a Montgomery c...

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more...

Education, and the timing couldnt have been better (Carson). Brown declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, whi...

The American Labor Movement has a long and turbulent history, a history that is partially detailed by author...

methods used by Islamic fundamentalists. That is, each faction uses bombs. Sometimes, assassination is used as well. There have be...

computer users - and therefore buyers - insist that they will not purchase another Dell computer unless and until Dell provides so...

grass roots movement and aligned with a variety of groups, such as MADD and others that try to change the system and make their pr...

The indigenous peoples of the Americas have suffered long and hard since their juxtaposition of their cultures against those of th...

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

scientific advancements made by India concern their testing of nuclear bombs. This development has resulted in sanctions being iss...

In six pages civil rights and civil liberties are discussed in order to assess their validity. Three sources are cited in the bib...

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....