SEARCH RESULTS

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

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...

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

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

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

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...

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

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...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

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

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

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

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, ...

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...

1964, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall hav...

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

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

barred from as the result of a ban on gay marriage, and for many this is simply unfair. More fundamental, however, are the argumen...

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

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

to the early twentieth-century social mainstream. Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaica...

Martin Luther King is considered one of the greatest American leaders of all times. His accomplishments were indeed phenomenal....

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

the civil rights issue cannot help but be valuable tools in attacking the inertia and apathy that stand in the way of Negro libera...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...