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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 ...

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...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

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, ...

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

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

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

The African American Museum in Philadelphia Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/18...

servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United State...

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

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

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

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

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

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

In a paper of eight pages the Ruffin v. Commonwealth case of 1871 is considered in terms of the civil rights' indifference shown t...

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

p. 2). For example, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most noted leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Another universal feature o...