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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

President's Role in the Further Progression of Civil Rights

This writer examines the president's role in aiding the further progression of civil rights. The writer, in doing so, addresses th...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

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

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

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...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

South Africa and the Impact of Nelson Mandela

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

August 28, 1963 'I Have a Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

President Abraham Lincoln's Role in the US Period of Reconstruction

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....

Civil Rights and the Government of the United States

protests, a look at what the government has done from the early 1930s through the late 1960s is in order. What did the government ...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

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

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Civil Rights Movement and the Impact of the Cold War

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

Balancing Intrusion by the Government and Safety

She is right in this evaluation. During the Second World War, the U.S. supported Japanese internment camps. It was something that ...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

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

1964 Civil Rights Act

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

Legal System, Civil Rights Movement, and the Nonviolent Social Ideals of Martin Luther King

was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws m...

Community Policing and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

the highest source. What had to occur was a renewed approach from both sides that encompassed compassion, understanding, trust an...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

U.S. Civil Right Movement

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

Ethnic Groups in the United States

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

Tutorial on Maintenance of Civil Liberties

airplanes could dive bomb into more buildings? The purpose of this paper is to lead the student through some arguments reg...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

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