He argues with King the struggle for civil rights set a precedent for the violence, and asserts antiwar and civil rights protesters abuse the concept of civil disobedience. ... The demonstration was the pressure that forced the government and the people to confront segregation and rethink if the segregation law was right or wrong. ... The black people waited to be served until the stores closed. ...
The southern slave owning states made it clear that they did not want the federal government to interfere with their ability to own slaves. Therefore the Constitution was structured to allow the caste system of slavery to not only continue, but also gave the stamp of approval of slavery from the newly formed government (Alexander, 25). ... They consisted of a list of laws that set up a peonage similar to that of slavery. Furthermore, to set an example, nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws. ... However, these Amendments turned out to be false promises when the government stopped protectin...
Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841-1898) was the first African-American who served a full term in the U.S. ... Bruce was a Republican senator representing Mississippi; he served from March 5, 1875 until March 3, 1881. ... Douglass was the first African-American citizen appointed to high ranks in the U.S. government. ...
Aaron, 1958 v/s The court repeated that no law or policy of state or local governments could directly or indirectly have the effect of promoting racial segregation. ... City School of Gary, Indiana, 1964 v/s In a decision which attracted much attention, the court refused to review a lower court decision which upheld de facto segregation on the grounds that policies of government were not involved. ... County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968 v/s The court found a "freedom of choice" plan to be inadequate because it failed to achieve desegregated schools and because it pl...
Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. ... The police are the institution which serve as a gateway to the legal system, and thus it is only logical to look here first. ...
The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. ... This case "_became the cornerstone of sweeping changes (Chalmers 17)" because the decade following the Brown decision "_witnessed a complex interplay of forces between black citizens striving to exercise their constitutional rights, the increasing resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the federal government (Robinson 2)." ... King then set up a voter registration drive in Selma in February 1965. ...
The government gave them no work and many Black refugees got rocky and barren land to farm. ... Blacks mostly settled together because it was a form of support because the government did not help them out much. ... Many other Black support groups were also formed and this was good because it helped raise racial and political awareness and the Federal Government was forced to recognize our Black Leaders. ... In 1911, the government and Blacks were having problems in the prairies and this eventually led to ending Black immigration to the prairies. ...
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Age of Reconstruction saw the introduction of Black codes in many Southern States as white officials, who had served the Confederacy, were elected to govern. ... Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United States in 190013" whilst Chambers contrasts this, believing "the black codes did not technically re-establish slavery.14" Also in contrast to Sanders is Dunning who states "as the black codes were concerned, it was pointed out that they could not be alleged as a tendency to restore sl...
