Democrats lambasted Bush's decision "to continue to side with those who oppose civil rights and oppose diversity in this country," not to be lost is the irony that this decision came on what would have been the late Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'...
In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. She met all the requirements to attend except one. Linda brown was black and black children were not al...
A lot of private firms and individuals sponsored these cases, demonstrations were also popular, riots, political scandals, affirmative action, Martin Luther King were all examples of how both public and private people played a role in this long, frustrating, painful, and for some very tragic process. ...
Since Martin Luther King Jr.'... (McKenna and Feingold, 379) They started a campaign against him because the government thought it was a danger for the American people, but after he passed away, Luther even received a day to honor what he did for the nation. ...
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S and is the second American of black origin to serve in the highest court of the U.S after Retired Justice Thurgood Marshall. Born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia he spent his early life in Savanna, Georgia and was educate...
In Snyder vs. Phelps, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed the issue of "whether the First Amendment shields the [Westboro Baptist Church] members from tort liability for their speech."i In Snyder, the plaintiff, the father of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, sought to recover damag...
The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...
Affirmative Action Equality for All? For the past one hundred and fifty years, the fight against discrimination has been a long, hard, and vastly debated topic. Many people thank the pioneering ideas and hard work from various minority and women organizations for enriching this nation with its di...
