Anne Moody reflects on the murders of her town, "At least when other animals (hogs, cows, etc.) were killed by man, they were used as food. ... The system of segregation also included the denial of voting rights. ... The federal courts put the approval of black rights to the state courts; many southern state courts made sure that blacks were not able to have any rights. ... They started taking action and putting their feet down to gain the rights. In the history of black suffrage many famous Civil Rights events and protest tactics were battled. ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Some say that animals were treated more fairly than black people. ... When slavery ended, black people had to fight to gain basic civil rights and declare themselves as citizens. ... In order for black people to gain equality and the appropriate rights, they had to protest and fight for them. ... James Baldwin was a civil rights activist in America; not only did he fight for "the injustice system of racism, but also the rampant homophobia and ant-intellectualism" (Baldwin, 165). ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. ... When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. ... Like, Bunny Plaskett who remembers the pain of life in the United States before the civil rights. ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about B...

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

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the rights of the African American people. They wanted equal rights and desegregation, but even today we do not have equal rights or a desegregated society. ... Some people treat blacks as if they are from another planet and others as if they are animals. ...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Again, the issue of whether the child is fully human with all the same rights is at issue. ... Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. ...

• Word Count: 2354
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That was sufficient reason for them to deny me those rights and freedoms without which life loses its significance and becomes a matter of little more than animal survival"(111-112), as Griffin explained how they judged him on his skin color. ...

• Word Count: 2270
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ... They were thought to be ignorant and like animals. ...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The boy is in the stable for the majority of the story, like an animal (Mountain Victory 751). ... The future would prove no better as the KKK was formed and the civil rights struggles that would carry themselves from reformation to today's contemporary America. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School