Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of department-store facilities. ... Death came for King on the balcony of a black-owned hotel on the evening of April 4, 1960. ... If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ...

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Slaves began to work at a very young age and usually were separated from their parents most of them continued to work until their deaths. ... We have a come to know that every individual lives, from one generations to the next in society, that lives out a biography and that he lives it out within some historical sequence"(the sociological imagination page 5 b).I think is this a example of social structures that someone lives knowing that they don't get hired for a job because someone else was giving to it, or like the sat the blacks kids do bad on testing so is this a way of social networ...

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Kemp, the defendant introduced a comprehensive, multiple regression analysis of the death penalty, done by Professor David Baldus. The study controlled for 230 independent variables, and indicated that race is by far the most important factor in whether a defendant receives the death penalty. It also found that Black killers of white victims are far more likely than white killers of Black victims to receive the death penalty.10 Although the Court upheld the death penalty, it only did so because of precedent which states that discrimination must be proved through demonstration of intent, and no...

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Some police officers have taken extreme measures in regards to implementing the law when it comes to African Americans. Law enforcement is professional, effective, efficient, and often regarded as a model to follow worldwide. Some would hold that a significant factor in the history of this professio...

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African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those sentenced to death. ... The officers responsible for Diallo's death were part of New York Police Department's "elite" Street Crime Unit. ...

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