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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...

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...

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...

Reason Plus Spirituality Equals Enlightened Theology

Jonathan Edwards succeeded in defining both his physical and spiritual universes through sense and affection, an entirely new conc...

Segregation in the 21 Century

Diversity remains political economic challenge even in this new century. This paper reviews racial housing segregation as it has ...

Comparisons Between Violent and Nonviolent Civil Rights Protests

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

Malcolm X's Black Power vs. King's Civil Disobedience

theme of the research. 2. How would they have been dealt with? Fine tuning the research question into a research hypothesis ...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"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...

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...

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...

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, ...

Important Developments 1950s Through the 1990s

dealt with racial differences. Its impacts would extend from the educational arena to the workplace and eventually to interperson...

The Meaning of The First Black Presidency

whether or not the statement is true. One can easily see that Obama had become president many years after the movement, and also t...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

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 ...

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...

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...

Racism in The Long Walk Home and 4 Little Girls

A five page paper exploring the them of racism as it existed in the decade preceeding the Civil Rights Movement. These films serv...

Overview of Dr. Martin Luther King

In two pages the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King in terms of the civil rights movement and humanity are the focus of thi...

Chronicle of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In fifty pages this paper examines the evolution of the civil rights movement in America in a consideration of history, politics, ...