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

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

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

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

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...

was the only freedom that existed. Further, that freedom existed only for those who were like-minded. Those who were not often w...

they are minors, unaware of the ramifications of their actions and are likely to make mistakes. Most children at one time or anot...

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

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...