The study concluded that African Americans with above average scores on law school admissions test were 730 times more likely to be accepted than an equally qualified Caucasian student at Virginias School of Law (Washington 3). At the University of Michigan Law School, the way that they accept students is a point system. ... This makes it much easier for minorities to be accepted to the law school than Caucasians even if the minorities grades are lower the Caucasians (Pioneer 1). It is almost like the universities have a quota and although the Caucasian students may have better grades and te...

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The First Amendment does state: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ... In the discussion led by Arthur Miller from the Harvard Law School, many university representatives were asked to discuss their views on particular matters regarding the First Amendment. ... Arthur Miller played the Devil's Advocate and asked different members of the panel if they ...

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Everyone wants their school to be the best. ... This is what the University High School admissions board has in mind when looking through the applications usually numbering around 750-900 for the next school year to offer admission to only 150 of those applicants. ... Though there are no laws telling people how to think, there are, however, laws that prohibit discrimination in the workforce and most important to this issue, laws prohibiting discrimination in the educational system. ... This is not what the purpose of University High School was intended to be. ... This would still ensure tha...

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The book was banned in many schools during that time since Maya Angelou was really open up about sexually abused subject. ... Maya Angelou devoted her time not only in writing, but organizing meetings, joining matches against unfair laws, and putting on shows, such as Cabaret for Freedom to strive for equality among the nation. ...

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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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These hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, which is one of America's oldest and more feared, use violence and move above the law to promote their different causes. ... Many people think that the reason young people are willing to join hate groups in high school and in college is that they are uncertain about their own futures. ... As hate crimes have risen in number during the past five years; many state governments have attempted to prevent such crimes by passing laws called bias laws. ... Many people believe that these laws violate the criminal's freedom of speech. ... These viol...

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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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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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Gaining momentum, Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment, making everyone born in the United States (or brought up in the United States) to be a citizen, and declaring "no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection under the law (Boyer, et al. 505)." ... Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)... Ironically, the last t...

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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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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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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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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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This law still did not stop people from treating minorities with cruelty, and hatred. When this law was passed not only did it affect African Americans but it shook the whole nation. ... The president of the school, Alice Gast, was very upset by this and made the university police investigate the source the crime right away. ... Making it question if school is truly safe for younger generations, or not? Just like in Pennsylvania, many other states have seen this in their schools, and in their community. ...

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It's language is explicit: "No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... Under the affirmative action law, our schools are currently recruiting students according to race and color. ... (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they can accept a more diverse group of students. ... An Asian student coming out of high school with a 4.0 GPA, and a list of extra curricular activities would not be accepted simply because of his ethnicity. Ins...

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James Hughes had a law degree, but was unable to maintain a law practice because of racism. ... At the age of twelve, his grandmother died and he went to live with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended high school. ... Many in his school where immigrants therefore there were few racial conflicts. ... He then attended Lincoln University, an all black male school, in Pennsylvania (Meltzer 115). ... While there, he brought up many issues concerning the all White school board and faculty; those issues would later be resolved (Metlzer 120). ...

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Introduction What's a person, group or society to do when the holder of law itself states that a police officer's true motive for stopping someone was irrelevant. ... There are people out there who see this as unconstitutional and yet there is no supreme law directly stating that Racial Profiling is unconstitutional. ... He was just walking home from school one day. ... Many see law enforcement's use of practicing Racial Profiling during stops has a negative vibe. ... A bill was introduced to the senate on June 6, 2001 called "End of Racia...

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Instead, the men at the top look to former colleagues and old school ties; in both areas, women have been virtually absent. ... Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws The Reagan and Bush Administrations have gutted the federal government's commitment to affirmative action. ... With an increasingly conservative majority, the Supreme Court has issued a series of seven decisions on equal employment opportunity laws that make it harder for women and minorities to successfully wage discrimination lawsuits. Collectively, these decisions represent a major shift in employment laws put in pla...

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Rabinowitz believed that because of these actions, separate schools for blacks were created, poorhouse facilities were provided, and the Nashville Street Railway even started running a separate car for them. ... Rabinowitz felt that the law that provided separate cars and equal accommodations was right. "It is only law which can be just to both of these classes of citizen, and at the same time prevent race conflicts, which would disturb the peace of the community (Rabinowitz 153)." ... There were separate public school textbooks for black and white children, separate ...

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Due to established laws, overt acts of racism are not dominant in American society. ... Institutional discrimination occurs when an institution makes laws or rules that are unfair to a group of people. One example of individual discrimination is a white person who throws a rock at a school bus, which has black students on it. An example of institutional discrimination is a state legislature preventing black children from attending a predominantly white school. ... Now, in the United States, laws at all levels (local, state, and federal) have high penalty for crimes motivated by prejudice. ...

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Jim Crow laws were an individual state's way of limiting its black population legally. ... With Jim Crow laws, the segregation of public places became a widespread practice. ... (Wormser, 99) It was this Supreme Court decision that really solidified the Jim Crow laws. ... The Jim Crow laws even seemed to legalize the black's inferiority in the minds of many of the southern whites. ... This is where the school of thought that the "white man's floor is the black man's ceiling" comes from. ...

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Black people were not allowed to live in white neighborhoods, children had to go to different schools and they were not allowed to use the same public facilities as the white people such as, bathrooms, public transportation, water fountains, and some public places. ... As a result the Hansberrys were able to buy a house with only one purpose, break the law and take the case to the court. ... Hansberry, herself got beaten up every time she went to school. ...

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Four justices ruled to admit Bakke and against preferential treatment; and one, to achieve some kind of judicial consensus, upheld Bakke's claim of unfair discrimination and ordered Bakke into the medical school while also upholding affirmative action on the right of universities to seek diversity. ... This landmark affirmative action case challenges racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Michigan Law School. ...

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Many of the books we read today in school at one point or another had been banned. ... They are non-member nations such as the United States to help show their support concerning the new law. The United States has said that supporting this law would go against the First Amendment. ... A teenager wrote a poem conveying her opposition against the war in Iraq and it was aired on the School's closed circuit television system. The consequences of this action were the suspension of the teacher who allowed her to read the poem and the closing of several school poetry clubs. ...

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Even in the 1950s and 1960s schools in the United States of America, there still segregated. Blacks went to one school, while whites had their own school. ... In theory, people are equal in the eyes of law but it is not real in society. ...

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