The Declaration of Independence defined the promise of America - freedom and equality for all Americans. ... Without the audacious and unyielding efforts made by activists for African American civil rights, the pledge that the Declaration of Independence makes, " all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", might still be blatantly denied to people of color today. ...

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During a time of revolution and independence, the leading men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, all helped to influence a young country which stressed freedom and liberty for all. ... The opposite of that culture is individualism which supports self-expression and independence (Arnett 102). ... Documents like The Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 were some of the first example of the desire for self-expression and independence. ...

• Word Count: 1212
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The secession commissioners repeated the same message throughout any argument: Lincoln and the Republicans were abolitionists that determined to establish racial equality; secession and independence offered white men the only alternative to degradation and cultural destruction. ... The authors of Mississippi's "Declaration of Immediate Causes," for instance, claimed that the North "advocates Negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst" (Dew 13). ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His aim was to empower black people by uniting them under the roof of Black Nationalism, which fostered independence and self-determination instead of a mere acceptance by and an integration into the dominant society. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ...

• Word Count: 1192
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin Luther King and George Wallace had extremely opposing views of the civil rights movement and the deterioration of segregation. Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the posit...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate