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possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

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...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

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

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....

protests, a look at what the government has done from the early 1930s through the late 1960s is in order. What did the government ...

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

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

She is right in this evaluation. During the Second World War, the U.S. supported Japanese internment camps. It was something that ...

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

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

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

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

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

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...