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1961's Civil Rights Freedom Riders

On May 4, 1961 a small group of many races decided to travel in two buses and challenge the fact that some of these southern state...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

Proposition 209 Civil Rights Initiative of the State of California

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the socioeconomic and political aspects of California's Proposition 209 and also examines i...

Civil Rights and Law Enforcement

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

Utilitarianism and Civil Rights

In five pages this essay discusses Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' from John Stuart Mill's utilitarian philosop...

Civil Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Abandonment of the Freed Men

The Compromise of 1877 is the focus of this six page research paper that involved a close election in which Republican Rutherford ...

Black Issues in Pre-Civil Rights Chicago

Combss performance, specifically that he never fully develops Walter, who is the central character; this vacuum at the center of t...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Early 20th Century Niagara African American Civil Rights Movement

owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more...

Civil Rights and Federalism

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

Workplace and Gay Rights Issues

(Religious Intolerance, 2004). Pressure from lobbyists has prompted this decision but it appears to be a growing trend in the mar...

Global Human Rights Problems and Violations

partly because violations of human rights were protected by the doctrine of state sovereignty and partly because the Cold War made...

Minority Shareholders' Rights and UK Law

This paper examines the limitations and rights of minority shareholders in the UK. This ten page paper has nine sources listed in...

The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

21st Century Report on North Korea's Concentration Camps

of slave labor, beatings, and of the executions they have personally witnessed that scream to be heard by the world. They are spe...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Contemporary Law v. Pre 1700 Law

of settling a dispute. In fact, during King Henry IIs reign (1133-1189), "no other legal means was recognized for the settlement ...

Natural Law and Natural Rights

In six pages this essay discusses natural law and natural rights as considered by James Hutson in 'The Bill of Rights and the Amer...

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....

Social Responsibility, Terminally Ill Citizens, and Euthanasia

In five pages euthanasia is explored in terms of history, types, and issues of economics, living wills, and human rights....

Articles VIII and X of 1998's The Human Rights Act

Court interpretation of Article 8 and Article 10 of 1998's Human Rights Act is examined in 7 pages....