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blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

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

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

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

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

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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

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...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of the Civil War in terms of the reasons why the South was defeated and also examine...

In eight pages various civil rights policies such as preferential treatment, the Civil Rights Act, and Affirmative Action are cons...

Civil litigation is considered in this overview of six pages and incorporates examples to reveal civil justice inadequacies includ...

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

In seven pages this paper examines the techniques and goals of student movements during the civil rights period with various movem...