Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. Compassion to help the underprivileged also attributed to government making the first step to take action. ... This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. Within months, Executive Order 11246 was implemented prohibiting discrimination for federal employment from race, creed, religion or national origin. ... This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and ...

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A federal court ordered public schools to begin desegregation. ... Brown demonstrated the potential for using the federal court system as a weapon against discrimination and a means the full rights of citizenship. Activists could not always rely on federal help and many black communities had to help themselves first. ... Black lawyers arguing for civil rights in the south was a victory of sorts, the states became subordinate to the national government and legal changes come form the Supreme Court rather than state courts. ...

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The Progressives wanted a strong federal government as long as they would be able to control it. ... Overall, Kolko says "Progressivism was not the triumph of small business over the trusts, but the victory of big businesses in achieving the rationalization of the economy that only the federal government could provide....

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Even though the federal government has passed civil rights law in an attempt to equalize education, these laws having been "designed to end segregated education [, they like a lot of other laws and policies,] have been consistently undermined and defeated by white resistance and refusal (Lipsitz 34). " Lipsitz not only discusses the implications of the possessive investment in whiteness on blacks but because is America a nation full of different ethnic backgrounds, Lipsitz also includes the implications for Latino and Asian communities. ... When Lipsitz writes about the riots in L.A. after th...

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This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. ... Our most powerful and sacred document that holds all the power in the government is colorblind. ... The US government has " more than ninety thousand organizations with contracts valued at $50,000 or more." ... In order to create a system that is fair the government needs to do additional research in improving its present situation. ... Herzberger, the debate is whether the government truly believes in their laws or if they are simply using it as campaign fuel. ...

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They have risen above centuries of oppression so that, today, after years of dealing with society's racist and sexist misconceptions, with its brutal hostilities and unthinkable mistreatment, not only are they supporting families, they"re leading corporations, major media organizations, the military, our state and federal governments. ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence...

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Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. ... It also found that of all federal death row inmates, 67 percent are Black.11 Despite the fact that these statistics are startling and important, they are insufficient to justify race-based jury nullification at face value. ...

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This oppressive category is aimed to force the people it's discriminating against to stay in a certain status level; usually created to keep someone at a poverty ranking, their education low or refusing the correct law and government benefits. ... In Baltimore, "..federal policy [...] prohibited black families from accumulating housing equity during the suburban boom that moved white families into single-family homes from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s......

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Bakke held that the Constitution forbids public universities and other government agencies to use rigid racial quotas but does not forbid the use of race as a "factor- among others. ... In the Voting Rights Act, and in federal legislation and regulations giving benefits to minority contractors, a form of affirmative action is already enshrined in law. ...

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It is the police's decision of whom to identify as potential criminal suspects, and there is a clear racial discretion existing in this tactic.5 Under a federal court consent decree, traffic stops by the Maryland State Police on Interstate 95 were monitored. ... Moreover, 20% of white defendants who had charged with crimes received that benefit, while only 14% and 11% of similarly situated blacks and Hispanics were placed in such program.15 Therefore, the government and states deciding whether or not they want to dismiss or not prosecute a case has discrepancy with the basic aims of law. ...

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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