In 1996 President Bill Clinton awarded her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom the highest honor the U.S. ... In January 1999 President Bill Clinton invited Rosa to sit with Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Annual State of the Union Address and Rosa got a standing ovation during the Presidents speech. ...
So to the whole world america outward image is the land of the free, everybody got a chance to be let's say the next Tom cruise or Bill gates, okay who would you rather be. ... Bill Clinton. Before reading this book you could say I was somewhat of a Clinton fan, not so much anymore. ... I'm not saying that I dislike Clinton as much as I dislike Bush, if I had one bullet i'd defintlay shoot Bush instead of Clinton, heck if i had to i'd problaby shoot Bush again just to make sure, but the view that Moore gave the reader with that chapter was nice, it gave the readers a chance...
The constitution of the United States contains a Bill of Rights that describes simple liberties and rights insured to every person in the United States. Although the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, civil rights were not always respected to all human beings, especially women and blacks. ... In 1868, after southern president Andrew Johnson vetoed a Civil Rights bill, the radically republican influenced congress transported the principals of the C...
Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. ... Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to cease discrimination due to race, religion, or national origin. ... Dole proposed legislation to ban preferential treatment in federal programs and the Clinton Administration was considering reform to affirmative action by supporting a reformed version that complies with the 1995 ruling by the Supreme Court. ...
Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the ca...
Some people wonder what is racial profiling, racial profiling deals with miseducation, slavery, and incarceration. Since the beginning of slavery African Americans have suffered due to their identity. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having commit...
Many members of the Congressional Black Caucus later explained that they were against her extradition, but they had not recognized her name when the bill was proposed. ... Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum-security prison of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979. ...
