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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 ...

Equality in Education and the Significance of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In three pages this paper examines how education in America was positively impacted by the civil rights movement in a consideratio...

Student Movements During the Civil Rights Era

In seven pages this paper examines the techniques and goals of student movements during the civil rights period with various movem...

America's Civil Rights Movement

century, noting that when the century opened separate but equal was the mode of thinking and further, had a legal basis (10). In f...

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...

Nixon's Piano by Kenneth O'Reilly

This paper critiques Kenneth O'Reilly's text in a consideration of the comingling between politics and race in the United States w...

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...

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...

Just Law, Unjust Law, and the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

Globalization, Postmodernism, and Civil Disobedience

In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

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...

Origins of Civil Society by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper discusses Rousseau's presentation of civil society contexts in his work. There are 2 sources cited in the...

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...

Film Version of A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr and Expert Witnesses for the Plaintiffs

In five pages this paper examines the expert witnesses by the plaintiffs and how they were used in the film version of A Civil Act...

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...

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...

United Kingdom and the Civil Court System

In six pages this paper discusses the role of civil courts in the United Kingdom in the resolution of alternative disputes. Six s...

French Revolution and Civility

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

Inner Self According to Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War by Eric Foner

free laborer was entitled to work and prosper to the best of his abilities, while the South was mired in a false sense of aristocr...