On June 23, a 5-4 decision was made in support of the University of Michigan's law school's right to use race as a factor in admissions, while declaring the points (a.k.a. quota) system unconstitutional. ... As we speak, many high school students across the country have who have applied to universities are being rejected because there are other, less qualified people who are getting accepted because they are minorities. ...

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The south did not accept integration of schools peacefully. ... And to prevent violence they stopped blacks from attending school. ... The president then removed the National Guard and sent the Army to open the schools. ... It was against the law, so she was arrested. ... They reaffirmed equality of the races and made many racist state laws known as Jim Crow Laws. ...

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In 1924 she enrolled in Mongomery Industrial School for Girls known as "Miss White's School". All schools she attended were all black schools with white women as teachers. In 1929 Rosa leaves school to take care of her ill grandmother. ... In the summer of 1955 she attends a workshop in Highlander Folk school in Monteagle, Tennessee. ... A white male got on the bus and saw there were no more seats in the white section so her decided to take Rosa's seat she refused and the driver called the police and Rosa was arrested and found guilty of violating segregation laws and fined $14.The s...

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The 14th amendment granted them equal protection under the law. ... Many of these laws were put in place specifically to hinder black voting. ... These laws included such things as the Grandfather Clause. ... The public schools were funded by property taxes. ... As a result of the March, President Kennedy proposed a new civil rights law. ...

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A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by a free person. ... Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. These laws separated blacks and whites in such areas of public life as schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus stations, and public transportation. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ... B...

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One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... The main laws he was fighting were the Jim Crow laws. ... Before the movement there were completely separate schools for blacks and whites. The black schools were usually just old run down homes in the middle of nowhere. After integration the blacks were allowed admission into the previously all white schools. ...

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Another effect was the unification of schools and universities that went against the segregation by participating in "sit-ins". The third effect was the Civil Rights Laws that made segregation illegal. ... In the early 60s schools and universities across the country worked together to get equal rights. ... (Gonzales) Later on through the 60s, the southern states passed laws known as "The Jim Crow Laws" which meant "separate but equal." The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that were made to stop black citizens from gaining equality. ...

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To me this social law is unjust. ... Included in those laws is the fact that children must attend school until the age of 16. ... These laws can be unjust by King's standard that says "a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law." ... This law, thus, enables teens to have a choice in what laws are set forth to protect them and create a culture in which they live in. ... I know that many of my friends that smoked in high school did it because it was against the law and they were doing ...

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During the 1950's, racial separation in public schools, especially southern schools, was not looked at as a problem for many people. ... Although all the schools in a "separate but equal" community were supposed to be the same, most schools that only allowed African Americans were far inferior to their white counterparts. When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Milam, his brother-in-law, took Emmett at gunpoint. ... This followed the laws that were enforced to seg...

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After correcting his own stuttering speech impediment, Edgar joined a debate team in high school, which turned him into a very persuasive, confident public speaker. Also, he was captain of the ROTC Company at his high school. His high school yearbook reveres him as "a gentleman of dauntless courage and stainless honor." ... After Hoover completed high school, he began working at the Library of Congress and attending night classes at George Washington University Law School. ... Shortly after finishing Law School, Hoover entered on duty with the Department of Justice on July 26, 1917. ...

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The laws that the parents put on dancing, music and other non-approved items represented the Jim Crow Laws. ... The laws that the parents made up represented the Jim Crow laws. The parents put laws on dancing, books and music. ... The Jim Crow laws put laws on buses, restaurants, schools and bathrooms. ... There were two different schools and bathrooms, one for whites and one for African Americans. ...

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King were placed in prison after breaking the law. ... King's letter he states that because of segregation laws being unjust the black man/woman should and will break these so called unjust laws. ... I can fully agree on breaking a law if someone I cared about or I was in harms way and just because of a law, I was prohibited to save or rescue him or her. I would also be forced to break the law, just as Dr. ... King is because I think that it is wrong for one race to oppress another race, in ways in which, they are totally segregated from the other like, usage of bathrooms, using of pub...

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The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools with "all deliberate speed" and overturned it's former "separate but equal" policy that had for so long been the law of the land. ... One of the main goals of the passive resistors was to gain public support and force the government to uphold the Supreme Courts controversial rulings, such as what happened with Central High School when President Kennedy nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and the Interstate Commerce Comm. forced the desegregation of the interstate bus lines. ...

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Washington Junior High School. She soon dropped out of school at 16 years old to care for her grandma. ... One year later she received her high school diploma. ... She was convicted of violating segregation laws and was fined $14 all together. ... When Rosa Parks broke the law by sitting up front in a bus. ...

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States passed laws directed at separating the races and keeping blacks from the polls. ... Constitutional and legal changes guaranteed the civil rights of all Americans under the laws. Congress passed the most important civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction, including the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a law that banned discrimination in housing. Other Civil Rights Acts of these two decades included, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which established federal commission on civil rights and a civil rights division in the Justice Department to enforce civil rights laws; Civil Righ...

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If you did not follow the law you had to pay the price. ... They were also trying to fight the laws and forces that were holding them down. ... They raised money and got schools built for the black society to continue their educations. ... They displayed that the same laws that was holding the people down would be the same laws to put the up one-day. ... Not to many white schools were taking black people; therefore, by building black schools caused black people to continue there education. ...

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It is generally considered the most important U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction (1865-1877). It guarantees equal voting rights prohibits segregation or discrimination in places of public accommodation bans discrimination, including sex-based discrimination, by trade unions, schools, or employers that are involved in interstate commerce or do business with the federal government calls for the desegregation of public schools and assures nondiscrimination in the distribution of funds under federally assisted programs. ... Kennedy in 1963 and strengthened and passed into law under Pres...

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Supreme court affirmed that the bus segregation laws of Montgomery were unconstitutional, the boycott ended in triumph for black dignity". ... Topeka Board of Education that segregated schools were unequal and unconstitutional. ... When the nine African American students arrived at Central High they were kept from entering the school. ... Only one student out of the nine finished the school year. Three of the student moved away and the last three finished the school year. ...

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Every state had its own laws for "dealing" with the blacks. ... Nearly everything in the south was segregated from schools, to diners, to restrooms. ... He defines segregation and unjust laws like this "Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. ... It is the nature of unjust laws that make them prone to be broken. ...

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Busses, lunch counters, drinking fountains, schools, occupations, and neighborhoods were all segregated by law and were custom. ... Similarly, laws forbidding sex and marriage between people of different races were ended. ... Many Urban areas across the nation have become predominantly Black with poor housing and run-down, crumbling schools. Whites, on the other hand, have been fleeing to suburban areas of the country since the end of the Second World War where nice houses and newer schools are located throughout. ... Racial profiling has become common for most urban law enforcement, thus lead...

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An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. ... An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... Just laws, stated earlier, are laws that uplift the human personality. ... An unjust law is a law that tries to degrade the human personality. ... Negores could"nt eat in a public restaurant that was white, sit in the front of a bus, or even go tot the same schools. ...

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Desegregation of schools would be a large issue for me because I would want the best education possible.   ... This brings about the issue that America needs to enforce it's laws and realize that all men are created equal.   The men holding the fire hose were a poor representation of American citizens, I don't even think they should have the honor of holding that title, since it seems they really didn't understand what it meant to be a citizen of this great nation, or understand the laws set forth by it.                         ...

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Desegregation of schools would be a large issue for me because I would want the best education possible.   ... This brings about the issue that America needs to enforce it's laws and realize that all men are created equal.   The men holding the fire hose were a poor representation of American citizens, I don't even think they should have the honor of holding that title, since it seems they really didn't understand what it meant to be a citizen of this great nation, or understand the laws set forth by it.                         ...

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Whether that is new laws coming into place, switching up your daily routine or even graduating from high school and attending college. ... Defending himself further, King addresses the issue of law breaking from his fellow demonstrators. ... Furthermore, King goes on to discuss that there is a difference between breaking a "just" law and an "unjust" law. ... King proceeds to tell the clergymen that even though it was illegal for people to hide the Jews for protection in WWII that it was morally right and the law was unjust, which is very hard to argue against as he connects...

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Imagine that two people have finished college, and each wants to go to the same medical school. One is more qualified than the other, but the other is accepted into medical school in order to meet a quota which is necessary in affirmative action. If you didn't know, a quota is a law made by the government that says that an employer must hire a certain amount of Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics Asians in there business. ...

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