In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... In 1857, the ruling in the Dred Scott case, the court ruled that black people could be property, not citizens. ... Police have been given the power to stop people of different ethnic groups, as long as they have a "hunch". ... Racial profiling against African Americans has been an ongoing battle for this group of people longer than most people may know. ...

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The Harlem section of New York City which covers just 3 sq mi, drew nearly 175,000 African Americans, turning the neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world. ... In a letter that Aaron Douglas wrote to Langston Huges he described the feeling that he felt towards the Renaissance he wrote, "Let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. ... The writers of the Harlem Renaissance helped ...

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Grassroots is defined as "the ordinary people in an organization, rather than the leaders" by the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2001 edition. ... They also attempted to get private retailers like Sears, which was anti-union and resistant to grassroots pressure, to give credit to lower income people. ... We only want ONE[,] a SEARS credit card for all poor people"; and "Give us Credit for Being American." ... The aforementioned is mostly due to the fact that many Americans could not fathom the idea of welfare rights or the idea of allowing people to purchase things that are not wi...

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David Adams, a Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, defines a hate crime as "instances of ordinary crimes done hatefully or prejudicially...when the offender has targeted a victim "because of" or "by reason of" race, religion, sexual identity, or gender" (par 11). ... Ready, shoots and kills four people, including an infant, before fatally shooting himself" (Anti-Defamation League par 4). ... It is important that people of all races report instances of hate crimes because it gives the police a caveat and the ken to realize which geographical areas ...

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When Dana refuses, Rufus builds up tension by telling her, "I've been too easy on you' 'I treated you like you were better than the ordinary niggers, I see I made a mistake!' ... Poverty plays a big role into human trafficking because the most exploited are people without money or are desperate of hope to seek a better future. ... Today's trafficking in people is a serious crime and a great violation of human rights but unfortunately it would always continue but with recognition and attention slowly the process to stop human trafficking will diminish. ... Dana ...

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On August 5, 1962, he was arrested again for provoking people to strike and for leaving South Africa without a passport. ... Police opened fire on the protesters and within minutes, 56 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured. ... In the United States, ordinary American citizens such as Rosa Parks, Zecozy Williams, and Jim Zwerg (a white man) revolutionized the system of segregation. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ... If it weren't for the works of everyday people, apartheid and seg...

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People felt they could not relate to the material, since it "[did not] translate to the period.  ... Firstly, there will be a closer look on the de-factor-segregation between black and white people, then on the racial discrimination going on during the crucial phase of jury selection, and eventually the inequality of the verdicts people of different races receive. 4.1. ... " (Logan: 1-2) In the same paper, the problem is described as being multigenerational, since children of black and white people are likely to attend separate schools. ... While Grisham romanticises Jake's s...

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