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. A 1972 amendment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, extended coverage to employees of state and local governments and increased the authority of the Equal Employment Op...

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The struggle between segregationists and integrationists, State of Arkansas and the federal government, and President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas became known as the "Little Rock Crisis." ... Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned a protest that would force the federal government to respond to and support the Civil Rights Movement. the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Morgan V. ... This order committed the federal government to enforcing the 1947 and 1960 Supreme Court rulings. ... The protests forced the federal government to acknowledge its responsibilit...

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This act also authorized the federal government to bring to court any person, store or school, or any other public facility if they failed to desegregate. ... In his plan, he demanded that the government would give a federal annual income for the poor people. ...

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JFK- wore wrinkled khaki's to Congress PET- wore sandals to house of commons JFK-Cuban Missle Crisis PET- War Measures Act JFK-Civil Rights Movement-pushed equality on the top of nations agenda PET-Official Languages Act JFK- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- inaugural speech PET- "The Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation- JFK-new level of idealism and activism PET- Charter of Rights and Freedoms, JFK-Televised debate, he won- Radio-Nixon won- awesome speaker, good presence PET-Same thing, used the me...

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Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... McKissack 57), and when Rutherford Hayes was elected, he retrieved all federal troops from the South, ending the Reconstruction era, and also ending the enforcement of civil rights (59-60). ... The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... The ideas before the Civil Rights Movement included racism and white supremacy, government apathy, and the will of African-Americans to rise from a slum of poverty and discrimination. ... Moving to governme...

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In 1955, Ray broke his first federal law, stealing and forging postal money orders. ... It was government policy."" ... I think Ray was an escape-goat for a government conspiracy. ... Only god, James Earl, and the government know what really happened. ... Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Conspirators that Loyd Jowers and governmental agencies including the City of Memphis, the State of Tennessee, and the federal government were tied to the conspiracy to assassinate Dr. ...

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The African Americans of Montgomery won their rights on June 2, 1956, when a federal court ruled for the Montgomery Improvement Association and declared segregated bus service to be unconstitutional. ... Henry David Thoreau felt that the best type of government was "That government is best which governs not at all." ... They both were willing to go to jail instead of complying with the government. ...

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Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. ... Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... In the 1940's and 50's things changed, not because attitudes in the south wsa changing, but because the government forced them to. ... A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but t...

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Here, he rose quickly in government service. ... Hoover designed the now called FBI to structurize police forces and allow them to use Federal assistance such as the FBI's forensic abilities and laboratories. ... Under the direction of Hoover, The BOI grew in responsibility and importance, becoming an integral part of the national government and an icon in American popular culture. ...

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But the First Amendment exists precisely to protect the most offensive and controversial speech from government suppression. ... According to the guidelines of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for indecent speech, which define indecent speech as, "limited to language or material that depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as much by the contemporary community standards for the broadcast means, sexual activities or organs," then hate speech is not indecent speech either (Pullma). ... The first amendment states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishm...

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With the use of Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes local governments had found a way to abide by the new amendments but still prevent African-Americans from voting. Jim Crow laws also prevented freedoms given to African-Americans by the government, until two court cases challenged the laws and segregation. ... Sharpe (1954), extended the ruling on segregation to the District of Columbia, under the Fifth Amendment that applied to the national government, rather than the states. ... The Voting Rights Act eliminated Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and other voter examinations and allowed federal exami...

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With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ...

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This implies that the new government that was being formed derived its control from the people, which would serve to prevent it from becoming corrupt and disinterested in the people, like Jefferson. The Constitution specifies a federal system of government, which gives each individual state the right to a government and should be directly elected by the people. ... Gandhi's protest provoked a strong reaction from the government, which jailed him repeatedly. It is as thou history has repeated itself directly on King with the visions of peace and brotherhood, but with a government who wa...

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The reason for that being was the fact that they ran most of the cities or governments. ... As blacks struggled to defend themselves, they learned that sheriffs and law enforcement officials, mayors, governors, the FBI, the federal government, the attorney general of the United States, and even the president participated in one way or another in the maintenance of a system of segregation that declared black people inferior and denied them equal Access to the labor market and to educational opportunity Edgar The black groups saw that the Society that was supposed to help them was against th...

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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)." ... SCLC petitioned a federal district judge for an order that would allow them to march again without any interference from the police. ... State juries found the Klansmen innocent on the murder charge, but were eventually convicted in federal cour...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of America in the 1960's by banning discrimination of people based on race, sex, national origin and religion. Because of this important social movement, African Americans and other minorities were more involved in everyday life by being allowed to work ...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ... The decision from the Brown case placed the federal government on the side of those people who saw segregation as something bad and evil. ...

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Beginning in the late 19th century, state and local governments passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws, and mandated restrictions on voting qualifications that left the black population economically and politically powerless. ... After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to apply plans, such as school-district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and faculty under one roof. ...

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The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...

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World wide racism has been an issue, and still is. Many people have tried to solve this problem in many ways. One way that is common is influencing people through speech. A number of the speakers were successful and others unsuccessful. Martin Luther King Jr. was definitely one of the many very succ...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the bl...

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From 1986 on wards, the US government every year on the third Monday in January, will be for the Martin Luther King Day. ... It was his peaceful struggle to maintain the "Declaration of Independence" and the freedom and equality of the fundamental values ​​of democracy and justice "Federal Charter", so that he and a few, like the president, is widely respected and renowned American people in American history. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. These leaders were fearless, dedicated, well-spoken men who advocated African American strength and pride, as well as the unthinkable acts that were made against people of color during their time. Two main groups of the Civil Rights movement were...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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