The constitution of the United States contains a Bill of Rights that describes simple liberties and rights insured to every person in the United States. Although the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, civil rights were not always respected to all human beings, especially women and blacks. ... In 1868, after southern president Andrew Johnson vetoed a Civil Rights bill, the radically republican influenced congress transported the principals of the C...

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Political opposition to the practice of racial profiling is mounting, President Clinton has it "morally indefensible" and has ordered federal law enforcement officials to collect 8 information on the race and sex of people they stop. ... For example, California's former Governor Pete Wilson vetoed a bill requiring police in his state to collect data on the nationality, gender and age of everyone they stop. Similar bills have failed to pass legislation in Texas and other states, ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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