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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 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...

that is growing the faster, and accounting for nearly 40% of all food sales in 2002, and expect to continue to grow as new stores ...

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

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Education, and the timing couldnt have been better (Carson). Brown declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, whi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

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...