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possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

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, ...

whether or not the statement is true. One can easily see that Obama had become president many years after the movement, and also t...

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

The African American Museum in Philadelphia Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/18...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United State...

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

dealt with racial differences. Its impacts would extend from the educational arena to the workplace and eventually to interperson...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

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

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

In a paper of eight pages the Ruffin v. Commonwealth case of 1871 is considered in terms of the civil rights' indifference shown t...

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

p. 2). For example, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most noted leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Another universal feature o...