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Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

airplanes could dive bomb into more buildings? The purpose of this paper is to lead the student through some arguments reg...

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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....

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

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

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

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

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...

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

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

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

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...

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

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...