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The Civil Rights Act of 1991

it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Reverse Discrimination and Civil Rights

In eight pages various civil rights policies such as preferential treatment, the Civil Rights Act, and Affirmative Action are cons...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

African Americans and 20th Century Civil Rights

Civil rights and the civil rights movement of the 20th century are examined in this report consisting of twelve pages. Ten source...

The United States and The Civil Rights Movement

equal protection under the law. It later directed that desegregated educational facilities be furnished "with all deliberate spee...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

Justiciability of Socio-economic, Civil and Political Rights

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...

Civil Rights

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

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

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Presidential Elections, Voting Patterns, and Civil Rights

of civil rights had something to do with the win. Boller puts it this way: "Truman...waged the kind of campaign, according to jour...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Post-Taliban Women's Rights And Government Implementation

the guise of personal agenda. The Taliban refused to honor Muhammads quest for gender equality by creating a harsh and oppression...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

Different Approaches of Civil Rights Leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In five pages this paper evaluates the short and long term influences of Malcolm and King in a contrasting of their very different...

American Reality of Segregation

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. history of segregation and how despite concerted civil rights' efforts, still remains. ...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

a society that is unlike anything most people have ever experienced. It is true that society has been struggling to overcome cent...

Workers Rights' Protection and Labor

In five pages this paper discusses civil rights, rights for women, the 'temp' or temporary worker, and safety in the workplace in ...

The Rights of Prisoners as an Historical Overview

In a paper of eight pages the Ruffin v. Commonwealth case of 1871 is considered in terms of the civil rights' indifference shown t...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Message and the Media

In five pages this paper examines the media's role in presenting Martin Luther King's civil rights' message in a consideration of ...

Electronic Media Impact Upon the Life and Achievements of Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this paper examines how Dr. King used the electronic media to get his civil rights' message across. Six sources ar...

Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch

In five pages this 2nd volume of a civil rights' movement historical text by Taylor Branch is analyzed. There are no other source...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...