It was rather frustrating for black students but they were struggling to learn under such hard conditions. ... They weren't even allow to learn under their native language, instead of that, they were forced to use the language of the whites, namely Afrikaans. ... So, on 16 June 1976 black students from various of schools joined to the South Africa Students Organization (SASO) in Soweto to start make a peaceful protests against the government. ... At first the police officers used tear gas and some shots to notify students. ... As it got spread around, more students and black Afric...

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In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... A government study on discipline in public schools states that black students are three times more likely to be suspended than white students. ...

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This tension is highlighted in Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic through his depiction of a race tension amongst students within a high school in Kentucky. Tensions between white and black students at the local high school had been escalating over the issues of white students displaying Confederate flags and black students wearing caps with an X on them, celebrating Malcolm X. ... We can all learn something significant from these two films. ...

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By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... She was instrumental in organizing a conference of student sit-in activists in 1960, forming the beginning of what would become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... Because the SN...

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Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... Nussbaum believes that rightful citizens are born when individuals learn to hold their identity as irrelevant and consider themselves part of a larger group that values the equal rights of all people. ... In her essay, Nussbaum questions the righteousness of having an extreme sense of national identity by saying, "As students here grow up, is it sufficient for them to l...

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