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Rap Music's Culture and History

was said about Rock and Roll when it first became popular. However a single factor, whatever the opinion one holds regarding RAP i...

Ambiguities Throughout the History of Politics

In six pages this paper discusses the political ambiguities represented by the Second World War, the Cold War's rise and fall, and...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

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

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...

The Civil Rights Era

free, and actual citizens, for many decades. Yet, despite this reality, African Americans were still not allowed the same freedoms...

Influence of the Black Church on America and Civil Rights

In seven pages this paper examines the influence the Black Church as exerted on the United States and on the civil rights movement...

Life and Contributions of Jesse Jackson

In five pages this paper presents Rev. Jackson's steadfast support of family values and applauds his contributions to civil rights...

Children's Rights Literature Review

Researchers set out to determine the level of understanding that children truly have regarding their own basic rights, and more ge...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Parts 2-5 of 'Eyes on the Prize'

voter registration of blacks, or talking back to a white person (38). One of these victims was Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old b...

Societal Structural Changes and the Influence of Malcolm X

In seven pages this paper discusses how Malcolm X exerted a profound influence regarding American social changes that occurred as ...

Civil Rights Movement and African American Women's Role

The civil rights movement is examined in an analysis of the roles black women played in this paper consisting of five pages. Seve...

Gender Equality and Sports Law

that: "Much has been written on the difficulty a school faces in being equitable to its students and fielding a football team. But...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In five pages this paper discusses a case's implications when the Civil Rights Act's Title VII is applied. One source is cited in...

Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

In five pages this research paper examines the 'revolutionary' presidencies of JFK and LBJ with an emphasis upon the civil rights...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

President's Role in the Further Progression of Civil Rights

This writer examines the president's role in aiding the further progression of civil rights. The writer, in doing so, addresses th...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

Civil Rights Movement and the Impact of the Cold War

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

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

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