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and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

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

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...

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

understand what constitutes discrimination, but in some cases, what seems wrong may not be wrong in law. Discrimination remains a ...

In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. ...

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

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

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

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 future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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