Under the Johnson administration, the US Government enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1064. ... The key was that the act governed all employers, not just government contractors like the Kennedy EO. The Civil Rights Act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). ... From 1978 until the present, there have been many Supreme Court rulings, Executive orders and other AA legislation in-acted. ... The 1998 Gallup/Newsweek poll showed that between 1987 and 1997, the proportion of women holding the title of executive vice president rose from 7 to 12 percent. ...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass acted as an interpreter for the entire black community and necessitated black civil rights through his newspaper. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fundamental question asked by virtually every freshman who takes HUM2305 at the University of Florida is the very title of the course: "What is the 'Good Life'?... Lane, when individuals act as if their well-beings are independent of the well-being of society as a whole, they risk "allowing the division of labor to become the division of humanity" (Lane). ...

• Word Count: 1243
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Nigger and Nigga is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, at the same time, words that remind African Americans of tragic American experiences," said by Randall Kennedy in his book title, "nigger." ... Words do have power and words have the power to cause people to act in certain ways, and when a person uses the word that was designed to put black people down, used to enslave, rape, murder and brutalize black people, then it does not matter how you think or intend to use it. ...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the official title was gone, the whites had managed to reassert their status as "masters" to the Southern Blacks through scare tactics and "economic policies". ... The Supreme Court supported the Southerners" push for black social subordination, when in 1883 the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was nullified. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Running from the law, Jian-Wa, like Lo and Caine, represents a fundamental dissatisfaction with the American justice system and frustration with the ineptness of police procedure, while, at the same time, fulfilling the role of "illegal alien- connected with the Chinese in America since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate