Some say that animals were treated more fairly than black people. ... When slavery ended, black people had to fight to gain basic civil rights and declare themselves as citizens. ... In order for black people to gain equality and the appropriate rights, they had to protest and fight for them. ... James Baldwin was a civil rights activist in America; not only did he fight for "the injustice system of racism, but also the rampant homophobia and ant-intellectualism" (Baldwin, 165). ...

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As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. ... When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. ... Like, Bunny Plaskett who remembers the pain of life in the United States before the civil rights. ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about B...

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In 1735, Linnaeus published a biological schema used to classify plants and animals titled Systems of Nature, which later became the foundation for modern taxonomy (Marks, 1995). Linnaeus sought to classify the animal species Homo sapiens into subspecies, which he called races, identified across geographical regions. ... This is somewhat of a tragedy given the reality of our overcoming of such evils during the antebellum and civil rights periods. ...

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For decades they were viewed as animals with no access to inalienable human rights. ... It led to no immediate legal changes but it was amongst the first to regard Africans as humans who deserved their individual rights and freedom. ... Once people of color could claim equal protection under the law, they would predictably use their civil rights victory to help undermine the institution of slavery" (Jones, p. 25) Howard's prediction is correct. The case encouraged African Americans to fight for their individual rights and not only to undermine the institution of slavery but to gain ...

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