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Biographical Texts and Films on Malcolm X

pages he was to write. When comparing quotes from the book to quotes from speeches made during the writing of the book, it appear...

Early and Late View of Nation of Islam Leader Malcolm X

destroyed his family. Placed in a series of schools and boardinghouses, he became a fine student and dreamed of becoming a law...

Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis

In a research paper consisting of eight pages the life and work of Angela Davis is considered with the focus on her evolving views...

Civil Rights' Activist Anne Moody

Moody's autobiographical text Coming of Age in Mississippi is the subject of this analysis of five pages in which the author's own...

Herbert Kohl's Rosa Parks Revisited

In five pages this paper considers how elementary children are being inaccurately taught about Rosa Parks and her contributions to...

Analysis of the Civil Rights Legacy Left by President John F. Kennedy

by signing a federal housing order prohibiting such discrimination, but nearly a year after taking office, the bill was still not ...

Freedom Bound A History of the Civil Rights Movement by Robert Weisbrot

represented a turning point; reversing the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, the Court held that compulsory segregation in public ...

Civil Rights and James Meredith

against the hundreds of heavily armed white supremacists and students. It took 20,000 federal troops to keep the peace (Russell 1...

Civil Rights Movement Comparison

In five pages the early twentieth century civil rights movement is compared with the activities of the 1960s with New York's 1998 ...

The Civil Rights Movement and Central High School

This relevant event is detailed in this comprehensive research paper that delves into the Civil Rights movement. Students are the ...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

An Overview of Affirmative Action

In five pages this paper considers how the issues pertaining to Affirmative Action are depicted conservatively by Thomas Sowell in...

U.S. Voting Rights

is 18 years of age has the right to vote in all general governmental elections. NOTEWORTHY VOTING RIGHTS HISTORY The first notewo...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Trespass, False Pretenses, and Obscenity Laws

light and the case of Howl was essentially thrown out of court because the poem was deemed socially valuable in many respects (Min...

Russia's 'Great Reforms'

for all of the changes and as the result of the changes and the rise of the populist movement there was the use of paternalist des...

State Statutes and Civil Monetary Penalties

or incentive for operating in a cost effective manner where possible. Medicare and private insurers always look at the case...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

Examination of the Civil Rights Movement Between 1945 and 1965

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

Overview of the Civil Rights Movement

at work, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man (Bush, 2003). She was arrested and jailed, infuriating th...

An Analysis of Louis Fischer's, The Essential Gandhi

courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

A Civil Engineering Overview

understanding of scientific principles, knowledge of materials and the art of analysis and synthesis. It also requires research, t...

Comparisons Between Violent and Nonviolent Civil Rights Protests

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

Justice System of Puerto Rico

In four pages this overview of Puerto Rico's system of justice includes its constitution, civil laws, and also considers how the f...

Dissent in Protest Nation of Protests

The most noteworthy US protest movements between the years 1950 and 1990 are the focus of this essay consisting of five pages as p...