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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...

Chinese and American Social Systems

the others. In one illustration of the differences, and slight similarities, between China and the United States we examine t...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Comparative Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr.

In eight pages this research paper evaluates the similarities and differences between these two influential civil rights activists...

The Years 1960 to 1967 in the Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In twelve pages an historical overview of Powell's career with emphasis upon his leadership of the House Committee on Education an...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

In 12 pages this essay considers the five families who brought a lawsuit against the chemical companies responsible for poisoning ...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Dissent in Protest Nation of Protests

The most noteworthy US protest movements between the years 1950 and 1990 are the focus of this essay consisting of five pages as p...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

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

Education: Crime and Civil Rights

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

Employment: Civil Rights

have been various statutes that have aimed at changing and eliminating discrimination that involve religion, sex, race, age and ma...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

The Patriot Act

knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson, 2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

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

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. ...

Title VII - Outlawing Racial Discrimination

understand what constitutes discrimination, but in some cases, what seems wrong may not be wrong in law. Discrimination remains a ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

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

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

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...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Herr and Lessons Learned

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

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. ...

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...