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Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

South Africa, the United States, and Civil Rights

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

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

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

Civil Rights Movement and Its Origins

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

Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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...

Civil Rights Movement and Exodus Theme

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

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

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

Civil Rights Movement and the Involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Societal Structural Changes and the Influence of Malcolm X

In seven pages this paper discusses how Malcolm X exerted a profound influence regarding American social changes that occurred as ...

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...

Literature on Civil Rights

In five pages literature on civil rights that is both nonfiction and fiction is considered and includes a discussion of Confrontin...

1955's Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

example, a 1964 article told of the fight by NAACP attorneys against the state of Virginia which was making payments to a school d...

Minority Struggles in 5 Films

The theme of minority struggles and violations of civil rights reflected in 5 films are the focus of this paper consisting of 5 pa...

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...

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...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In five pages this paper discusses a case's implications when the Civil Rights Act's Title VII is applied. One source is cited in...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Participant Rosa Parks

In ten pages this paper discusses the fact and fiction connected with Rosa Parks' bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that resulted...

Post 1960s and Racial Progress

black students, and discovered that both felt guilty. Blacks felt guilty for not wanting to be stereotyped as one of "those" blac...

Effective Weapon of Nonviolence and Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the factors that fueled the civil rights movement including 'Jim Crow' laws and the Supreme Cour...

Civil Rights and Discrimination

In five pages the ways in which the civil rights movement was motivated by discrimination are examined through a discussion of the...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

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...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

Utilitarianism and Civil Rights

In five pages this essay discusses Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' from John Stuart Mill's utilitarian philosop...

1961's Civil Rights Freedom Riders

On May 4, 1961 a small group of many races decided to travel in two buses and challenge the fact that some of these southern state...