There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. ... This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women's civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. ... Johnson...

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This type of civil rights movement has been around since the beginning of the United States. ... Civil rights is not a new story. According to our text book, The Challenge of Democracy there is a lot of history behind civil rights. ... It was not until the 1950's that the civil rights movement began to make changes. ... There are civil rights, and discrimination cases every year. ...

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To give minorities an advantage goes agaisnt everything the civil rights leaders wanted and strived for. ... What they did, and affirmative action all together is illegal under the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which explicitly outlaws "preferential treatment to any individual or group." ... It goes against everything the civil rights movement tried to achieve. ...

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Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil right's movement, which began with Mr. ... Although the program was first initiated for positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation. ... The Bakke decision further reinforced the thriving white opposition to "reverse discrimination", but did not weaken the strength of the affirmative action movement. ... An organization that has been monumental in the attack against the equity program...

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Affirmative action was created in the 1960's during the Civil Rights movement. It is supposed to give special consideration to minorities and women in certain institutions like employment and education. Opponents to affirmative action argue that it has now turned into reverse discrimination. Also...

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Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil right's movement, which began with Mr. ... Although the program was first initiated for positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation. ... The Bakke decision further reinforced the thriving white opposition to "reverse discrimination", but did not weaken the strength of the affirmative action movement. ... An organization that has been monumental in the attack against the equity program...

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Rosa Parks deciding that she was not going to sit in the back of the bus and Martin Luther King Jr. leading the Civil Rights movement in search of a color blind nation, are just a few of many events that were key in the reduction of racism(Washington 2). ...

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