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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...

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...

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...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Dissent in Protest Nation of Protests

The most noteworthy US protest movements between the years 1950 and 1990 are the focus of this essay consisting of five pages as p...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

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

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

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

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

South Africa and the Impact of Nelson Mandela

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

Psychosocial Behavioral Theory of Erik Erikson Applied to Rosa Parks

how Parks various crises directly associated with each stage were more easily addressed, inevitably elevating her to the next stag...

Struggle for Black Equality from the Reconstruction to the Present Time

the same way livestock was cared for, consequently they even lacked the experience to care for their most basic of needs (McGuire ...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

Aspects of Civil Rights Act of 1991

Rights Act of 1991 and what it meant to people at the time it was implemented. What Businesses Should Know about the Civil Right...

Transgendered Community and Civil Rights

themselves. There is a definitive move in fact, to abolish the term from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde...

Angela Davis and Her Impact

prisoners who were apparently being held wrongly. It was this situation that ultimately led her to be on the FBIs most wanted list...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Comparing A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King, Jr.

In five pages this paper compares these two major leaders in civil rights. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....