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of scope and scale which are likely to be available to many of the larger organizations (Nellis and Parker, 2006). The oper...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

In relationship to the possible dangers of having the military in charge of their own decisions it is noted how, "In the early...

the civil rights issue cannot help but be valuable tools in attacking the inertia and apathy that stand in the way of Negro libera...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

authoritatively prove that the defendant applied his brakes just three seconds before the impact of the wreck, much later than wou...

Martin Luther King is considered one of the greatest American leaders of all times. His accomplishments were indeed phenomenal....

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

to the early twentieth-century social mainstream. Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaica...

barred from as the result of a ban on gay marriage, and for many this is simply unfair. More fundamental, however, are the argumen...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

a court is said to have jurisdiction in a matter, then it can legally act as a venue for a given case and deliver a legally bindin...

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

made up of the houses of Congress, is undoubtedly one of the most influential branches of government as far as business is concern...

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...