Take for example Cheryl Hopwood, a woman who applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School in 1992. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... The University of Texas Law School was taken to court and proved that it simply did not take individual grades and merit into account, but it evidently lower standards for all minority applicants. ... The University of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42% of whites with equ...

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Many laws in the 1930s were racist, and allowed many dreadful things to happen. ... Lainer" This shows the law didn't protect harmful acts from being done to black people, at the time of the novel. ... The disgracefully equipped "Great Faith Elementary school" is a school in the book for black students only. ... There was no school bus, so pupils had to walk miles, just to get to school. Along with this, the white school (Jefferson Davis Country school) bus purposely splashed the black students. ...

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Often good intentions passing into law to benefit the "total" America are misinterpreted by intelligent law makers and manipulated to award personal gain and find ways to dodge the laws, especially the laws that affect their financial future. ... The problem that schools are learning the hard way is the law supports preferential treatment, not quotas. ... Bollinger involving University of Michigan's law school, and Grotz vs. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted...

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These laws merely even the playing field for all races. You might start by saying that these laws make it unbalanced and begin to favor the minorities in America. ... You also stated that most minorities drop out of big time schools after they experience the tough curriculum. This is not because they are minorities and definetly not because they were accepted due to any laws. ... Not to mention that not only minorities drop out of school, but many white Americans do so as well. ...

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Another problem which was a significant disadvantage was the Jim Crow laws, named after a black character in a programme in that year. ... The other major problem was the schooling under the Jim Crow laws. Although some black people had broken off and started their own schools they soon ran out of funds and were forced to shut. The black students were then forced to attend a white school. ... There were a lot of economical, political and social disadvantages made out by Jim Crow laws. ...

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The NAACP is responsible for such laws like the anti-lynching law in 1919; Harry Truman's Executive Order prohibiting racial discrimination and segregation in US Armies; The Fair Employment Practice Committee that ban racial discrimination in industries opening the doors for many colored jobs. ... Ever since the NAACP has started, they have worked furiously in trying to bring new and equal books and tools into the schools and on top of that, bring races together in schools to have mutual understandings of one another. Through slavery times and the age of change for African Americans (Ma...

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In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. ... The NAACP argued that segregated schools sent the message to black children that they were inferior to whites, therefore the schools were unequal, one of the expert witnesses, Dr. ... The court had to make its decision based on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when the amendment was written in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated sch...

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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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In 1952, black schools were quite inferior to white schools. A South Carolina school teacher went to the superintendent of schools and asked if some changes could be made to equalize the schools. ... This still made many black people feel inferior because they did not have the same opportunists as white people did despite what the law stated. ... Supreme Court could come up with was to separate the races and to ensure that everyone would receive equitable treatment under the law. This law was hard to enforce since many white people in power did not want black people to be equal to them so they...

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Going to grammar school with white children was obviously a step in the right direction as far as Paul's education because the education he was to receive at that institution would be better one then he would receive at an all black school. ... Paul often brought home straight A's, he was a member of his high schools debate team, often acted in plays and was the regarded as one of the best high school orators in the town. ... While in his first year of College he lived in the dormitory alone because of segregation laws that were still in effect but Paul used this to his advantage bec...

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According to Louisiana state law, it was illegal. ... Brown involved Linda Brown, a black third grader in Topeka, Kansas, who wanted better schooling than her "black school" provided. A nearby "white school" would have provided that opportunity, but she wasn't allowed there. ... Their decision required state governments to end segregation in schools. ... Schools began to desegregate, but it took a few years to take effect. ...

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These laws also protect employees against harassment based specifically on their color. ... The Piscataway Board of Education hired the two teachers and later decided to eliminate one of the jobs in the high school business department. ... The Bush Administration used this case to sue the school district for discrimination. ... Employment Law for Business. ... The Nolo: Law for Everyone's Web site provides information of the laws regarding racial discrimination (http://www.nolo.com). ...

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Virginia case, where the Supreme Court bans states from having laws that now colored people can sit next to a white person and they not have to sit in the back. ... This trial was on segregations of schools now whites and blacks ca study in the same schools and the colored people would be able to study peacefully, without getting bullied. ... • In 1930 a successful protests by the NAACP against Supreme Court justice nominees is launched against John Parker, who officially favored laws that discriminated against African Americans. ... Virginia case, where the Supreme Court bans ...

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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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Smith Advanced English II: Social Criticism Essay September 18, 2003 Affirmative Action The fourteenth amendment to the constitution guarantees equal rights to all people regardless of things such as our gender, religion, age, or race; how, then, is it lawful for colleges to determine who may attend their school based on skin color? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ... La...

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There was a white George Town law school student who reported that black students are not as qualified as white students. ... Universities and school's are on edge making no mistakes dealing with racism, companies and small businesses are protecting against it, the general public is in favor of the equal rights movement and society ensures the idea of equal rights protects all citizens living in the United States. ... Since society has passed laws that condemn any type of racism, the only other possible answer to African American failure is white racism. ...

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Although laws pertaining to civil rights were enacted that ended segregation, hatred and racism still continued; and it appears to be even stronger now than it ever has been. ... In a larger school the problems are understandably magnified. At Rutgers University in February, the school was racked with controversy. ... The all black schools even resemble the schools of old. ... In 1994, a principal from an Alabama high school opposed interracial couples' attending his school's prom. ...

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Anne writes about the unspeakable treatment that was socially imposed on African Americans, otherwise known as the Jim Crowe laws. ... A triangle between work, the two small children and Anne going to school. ... You know we ain't got but one pair and them my school shoes.... [or] having nice sidewalks beside their school .. ... She was intellectual and competitive in school work which allowed her to question morals and laws that was place in society. ...

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He was educated at a British missionary boarding school at Fort Hare University, from which he was expelled in 1940 for leading a strike with a fellow student. He eventually obtained a law degree from the University of South Africa. ... After attending grammar and high school locally, King enrolled in Morehouse College (also in Atlanta) in 1944. ... Zecozy Williams, a black woman who intensely supported the bus boycotts, drove all of her friends to work after driving her husband to his job and her children to school. ... Black citizens did not have the right to vote in either country due to...

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They were made to go to different schools and churches. ... Now we have laws against racism in America and people wouldn't even get away with serving a person last because of their skin color. Although these laws stand some people still have a racist attitude, laws cannot control this. ... Not just with laws but with attitudes. ...

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He attended school briefly, but mainly worked as a young boy. ... Washington started the school in a shanty owned by a black church and then purchased a plantation with funds loaned by the Hampton Institute. ... To raise money for the institute, Washington went on speaking tours publicizing the school where he would soon become an influential public figure. ... Baldwin also served on the school's board. ... Laws were passed to keep them from voting and socially mixing with whites. ...

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When Scout and Jim are shown at school, there are no black children playing in the schoolyard or attending school. Back then, schools were segregated; white children and black children did not attend school together! ... There were schools for black children, but they were very few and quite distant making it almost impossible to attend. ... During this time, law enforcement investigative techniques were neither as sophisticated nor as available to all police or sheriff's offices. ...

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It made all of the schools that were segregated, desegregate. What happened was that all of the schools did desegregate except for the schools in the South, the heart of racism. ... Up until the mid 1960's, all schools across America were segregated. ... The government or state wouldn't do anything about the colored schools. ... That year, a black passenger named Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a city law requiring that blacks give up their seats on buses when white people wanted to sit in their seats or in the same row. ...

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In the conversation in the Gridlestone's house, Gridlestone warned Jasper: "And remember that white man make the law in this country," "I have always treated the colored well, but I remember that my father, who own a thousand slave had callouses on his hand, from and he show me that was the only way to keep 'em in line'.... Alma tried to make a relationship between Sylvia and her brother-in-law, a gamble and criminal guy. ... Vivian which began when she came to the north to raise money for the school, Piney Woods School, which was for black children. ... In con...

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One landmark event of this movement was the integration of blacks into white schools in the southern United States. ... Under their protection, the black students completed the school year. The next year the school board closed the city's high schools, but when they reopened in September, 1959, some black students were admitted, and in the 1960s integration was gradually achieved. ... Although blacks and whites are equal under American law, they are far from being equal socially. ... The treatment is so poor that in 1996 the United Nations claimed that Canada's trea...

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