They performed door-to-door testing alongside health professionals and they used the media to further their cause, "Alternatively, their home visits represented a form of itinerant, grassroots organizing that carried the Young Lords campaign to a much larger number of people beyond their periphery." ... Black women fought for gender equality and fiercely challenged female subjugation. ...
Minorities being seen identified and tested on solely their group of skin color, rather than their individual contributions, causing much stigmatization among them (Wilkins.) ... It is important that every race and gender is represented equally and treated fairly, which was indeed the goal of affirmative action. ...
Ever since the Congress of the United States passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the United States has achieved a significant progress on the subject of establishing equal treatment for all citizens under the law.3 Many laws and theories aim for fair and equal rights among people despite their race, gender or age and discrimination has been seemingly disappeared from society. ... Moreover, minorities were detained for longer periods of time per stop than whites, and were 80% of those whose cars were searched after being stopped.7 Showing the similar statistic to the previous two, a study of t...
