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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. ...

Jefferson Davis: Civil War and Reconstruction

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

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...

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...

Events Associated with the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

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

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...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

A Civil Engineering Overview

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

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...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

John Brown's Controversial Activities

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

The Life and Career of Union Pioneer A. Phillip Randolph

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

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...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

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...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody and the American Civil Rights Movement

and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

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...

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

Civil War Life of Robert E. Lee

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

Issues of the Lebanese Civil War

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...