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Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Employment Inequalities and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

1964, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall hav...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Social Movements and Their Impact

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

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...

Racism in The Long Walk Home and 4 Little Girls

A five page paper exploring the them of racism as it existed in the decade preceeding the Civil Rights Movement. These films serv...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

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...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Title VII - Outlawing Racial Discrimination

understand what constitutes discrimination, but in some cases, what seems wrong may not be wrong in law. Discrimination remains a ...

Medgar Evers/His Legacy

In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. ...

Ordinances and Gay Rights

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

Comparative Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this research paper evaluates the similarities and differences between these two influential civil rights activists...

The Years 1960 to 1967 in the Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In twelve pages an historical overview of Powell's career with emphasis upon his leadership of the House Committee on Education an...

Comparing A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King, Jr.

In five pages this paper compares these two major leaders in civil rights. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Newspaper Reporting and Civil Rights

In ten pages U.S. civil rights is examined in terms of several New York Times articles between 1963 and 1965 and considers North a...

Reawakening and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper argues that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was responsible for commencing an artistic, intellectual...

Black Empowerment and Differing Approaches

In eight pages this essay discusses Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois in a consideration to their different a...

Overview of Dr. Martin Luther King

In two pages the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King in terms of the civil rights movement and humanity are the focus of thi...

Burma and Civil Rights

This research report focuses on civil rights violations in Burma. The problem with the current dictatorship is carefully examined ...

Civil Rights Movement and George C. Wallace

would give him later during his political career for he realized that most of the people he would be gaining votes from were more ...

April 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, Alabama

had defended his presence in Birmingham as an apostle of non-violence and justice, and appealed persuasively to America to grant r...

Chronicle of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In fifty pages this paper examines the evolution of the civil rights movement in America in a consideration of history, politics, ...

Philadelphia and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In five pages this paper examines the role of Philadelphia, PA in the U.S. civil rights movement. There are 8 newspaper sources c...