The success of the Progressive movement through federal legislation and greater social awareness instituted standardized measures for the average American citizen. This was done by promoting human and social rights of deprived groups. ... Another important deprived group was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States. During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed t...

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This brought democracy closer to the people in the absence of civil society and independent interest groups. Community mobilization also became a means of empowerment of more social groups such as the unification of Dalits under Scheduled Caste movement culminating in the formation of a political party and rich rural peasantry mobilising through the demands of reservation for Other Backward Castes. While casteism has been a negative force in Indian politics it has also seen a decline due to the expansion of private space and maturation of civil society groups with secular demands (such as the ...

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When relating Sartre's idea to the Civil Rights Movement, which was very similar to the Women's Rights Movement, it is clear that many Americans were objectifying African Americans as beings-in-itselves, and thus they were acting in "bad faith"" and restricting the true nature of African American people's freedom. ...

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The Bill of Rights is good, it protects civil liberties, so does South Africa and Nelson Mandela as referred to from the article "Love at the Top-of course these are moral, but Glasser fails to buttress this standpoint with any other hard evidence, fact or an illustration other than the lone article of its morality at work. ... Glasser portrays Helms in a fashion which stirs the image of a silent film villain cloaked in black garb, curling his moustache with his fingers as he plots his next devious move to "attack the vanguard of the civil rights movement" then move on to innocently "preach f...

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In a moving show of civil disobedience, activists from both the civil rights and environmental movements laid down in front of trucks carrying PCB-contaminated soil into the largely African-American Warren County - already inundated with more industry than any of the other counties in North Carolina. ... "Bullard offers case studies such as the Warren County movement, but fails to address workable solutions to the problem, and Friedman does not contest Bullard's allegations, but merely explains that poverty is much more detrimental to minority health than pollution, and, thus, "separat...

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