In the next few pages of this report I will inform you of the history, political significance, and current applications of this core democratic value. ... The law made it illegal for the states to discriminate against black voters with things like literacy tests. Federal examiners could supervise elections in states with a history of discrimination. ... In conclusion of this report about the history of inequality in the United States and how it progressed to equality. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Tuskegee Study is widely regarded as one of the largest medical blemishes in the history of the United States. ... Bill Clinton, the U.S. president at the time of the Tuskegee aftermath, formally apologized to each member of the study at a ceremony devoted to the test subjects. ...

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Their philosophy of nonviolence was put to a particularly severe test during the Birmingham campaign of 1963, in which activists used a boycott, sit-ins and marches to protest segregation, unfair hiring practices and other injustices in one of America's most racially divided cities. ... Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pepper, Williams 2008). ...

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"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so," founding father Thomas Jefferson expressed. "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessn...

• Word Count: 3194
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