According to the first study that I examined, the operational definition of suicide is a death by self-inflicted means where there is evidence that the intent was to cause death. ... Three subsamples were chosen for testing. ... The results of this study were as follows: repulsion of life=.88, repulsion by death=.93, attraction to death=.56, and attraction to life=.96 (Cronbach's alpha). The next test given was the Self-Harmful Behavior Scale (SHB). ... Blacks reported a stronger attraction to death than Whites. ...

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Bostic would say stuff like how only pretty women could pass his "elevator test." ... The most extreme form of violence against minorities between the years of 1880-1980 was lynching, which is putting a person to death, usually by hanging. Lynching by itself was the cause of 4,000 deaths nationwide, which averages to 80 deaths per year. One-third of lynching occurred in the South, and of those deaths 90% of them were deaths among African-American. ... e tests for high schools and colleges. ...

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Bostic would say stuff like how only pretty women could pass hiselevator test.? ... The most extreme form of violence against minorities between the years of 1880-1980 was lynching, which is putting a person to death, usually by hanging. Lynching by itself was the cause of 4,000 deaths nationwide, which averages to 80 deaths per year. One-third of lynching occurred in the South, and of those deaths 90% of them were deaths among African-American. ... immigrants from Asia faced serious problems of ethnic adjustment, yet their children were scoring very high on nationwide tests for high schools a...

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Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of department-store facilities. ... Death came for King on the balcony of a black-owned hotel on the evening of April 4, 1960. ... If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ...

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After fighting, and the death of 617,000 Americans, the Civil War came to a close, and began a new era for African Americans. ... One of the most significant events in African American history is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited the states Smalls 5 from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting (Memory). ...

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Because disenfranchising blacks was impossible due to the Fifteenth Amendment, poll taxes and literacy tests accomplished this task indirectly. ... The men had armed themselves and prevented their own deaths. ...

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