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Language Cases of Discrimination

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

The Patriot Act

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

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. ...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

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

Employment: Civil Rights

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

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 ...

Burma and Civil Rights

This research report focuses on civil rights violations in Burma. The problem with the current dictatorship is carefully examined ...

Biographical Texts and Films on Malcolm X

pages he was to write. When comparing quotes from the book to quotes from speeches made during the writing of the book, it appear...

An Overview of Affirmative Action

In five pages this paper considers how the issues pertaining to Affirmative Action are depicted conservatively by Thomas Sowell in...

Early and Late View of Nation of Islam Leader Malcolm X

destroyed his family. Placed in a series of schools and boardinghouses, he became a fine student and dreamed of becoming a law...

Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis

In a research paper consisting of eight pages the life and work of Angela Davis is considered with the focus on her evolving views...

Chinese and American Social Systems

the others. In one illustration of the differences, and slight similarities, between China and the United States we examine t...

Nixon's Piano by Kenneth O'Reilly

This paper critiques Kenneth O'Reilly's text in a consideration of the comingling between politics and race in the United States w...

Civil Rights and James Meredith

against the hundreds of heavily armed white supremacists and students. It took 20,000 federal troops to keep the peace (Russell 1...

Herbert Kohl's Rosa Parks Revisited

In five pages this paper considers how elementary children are being inaccurately taught about Rosa Parks and her contributions to...

Analysis of the Civil Rights Legacy Left by President John F. Kennedy

by signing a federal housing order prohibiting such discrimination, but nearly a year after taking office, the bill was still not ...

April 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, Alabama

had defended his presence in Birmingham as an apostle of non-violence and justice, and appealed persuasively to America to grant r...

The Years 1960 to 1967 in the Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In twelve pages an historical overview of Powell's career with emphasis upon his leadership of the House Committee on Education an...

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....

Newspaper Reporting and Civil Rights

In ten pages U.S. civil rights is examined in terms of several New York Times articles between 1963 and 1965 and considers North a...

A Desegregation History

This is an eight page historical overview that considers desegregation as it was influenced by such legislation as Brown v. the Bo...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

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...

Ordinances and Gay Rights

that ordinances send the wrong message, helping to undermine the "moral values" that they feel communities should embrace. They ar...

Pernicious Aspects of Nationalism

In three pages this paper examines nationalism in pernicious examples from America during the Civil War and the political structur...

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...

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...

Comparative Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this research paper evaluates the similarities and differences between these two influential civil rights activists...