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Ordinances and Gay Rights

that ordinances send the wrong message, helping to undermine the "moral values" that they feel communities should embrace. They ar...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Events of the 20th Century

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

Civil Rights Between 1962 and 1964

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

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

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

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

President's Role in the Further Progression of Civil Rights

This writer examines the president's role in aiding the further progression of civil rights. The writer, in doing so, addresses th...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

Legal System, Civil Rights Movement, and the Nonviolent Social Ideals of Martin Luther King

was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws m...

Community Policing and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

the highest source. What had to occur was a renewed approach from both sides that encompassed compassion, understanding, trust an...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

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...

Hugo Black

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

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

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

U.S. Civil Right Movement

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

Ethnic Groups in the United States

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

Tutorial on Maintenance of Civil Liberties

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

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...

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...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

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

Civil Liberties' Protection and the U.S. Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson this should be a task of the federal judiciary, James Madison also agreed that a system that utilised independent...

U.S. Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement

In six pages this paper examines the impact on U.S. democracy registered by the civil rights movement that considers its significa...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

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 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...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

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

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...

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

Canadian Ex Convicts and Discrimination

a whole (PG). Thus, evidence on the harm of pornography was sufficient for a law against it (PG). The court observed that true equ...