Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... The acceptance of the rights of the entire human race supports his ideas of having a true democracy. ... Identity allows individuals to become self conscious and through this they can find different ways to contribute to a democracy. ... He believes that democracy requires citizens that can criticize their leaders and their governments. ... "An American Negro would not...

• Word Count: 2792
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Aside from being educated, students need to also be engineered to function in a democracy by learning the democratic values that will ...

• Word Count: 2862
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. ... This Afrikaner myth is exemplified in Hard Right written by van Rooyen when he says, "Africa's poor record on democracy, human and minority rights was always a source of great anxiety to South African whites. ... America essentially put on a facade of backing South Africa and after internal pressure from black American and liber...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Being a mason meant believing in equality and democracy. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. ... Many years after Hall's death, the Prince Hall Masons continued to meet and promote lives of virtue, equality and democracy. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Negro in America. ... World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Democracy Faces a World Order'. ... The American Negro as Artist. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Negro in America. ... World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Democracy Faces a World Order'. ... The American Negro as Artist. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It affects higher education, the workforce, and every American's civil rights. I believe that affirmative action violates the norms of achievement and has increased racial tension in America. ... Part of our American tradition is that with hard work and a little sweat we can prevail. ... This has taught us that diversity is easy to achieve, but having a multi-racial democracy is next to impossible to achieve on campus (Bensimon and Soto 2). ... Another problem with affirmative action in America's law enforcement field is work performance and incompetence. ...

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The personal ritual states a series of ideas relevant to contemporary America. These ideas include "the fact that 'life is tragic'; the need to 'apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change'; the importance of discarding 'that collection of myths to which white Americans cling'; the reality that blacks may not rise to power 'but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream'" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. ! ... Baldwin's knife-edged criticism of the failed promises of Ameri...

• Word Count: 2618
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• Grade Level: High School

., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. ... Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. ... They had stood together as American blacks had never before stood together. ... S...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights of more than half of the country's population. It ordered a strict and conformist code of separation on its black citizens. The black community in South Africa could no longer live, work, or enjoy innumerable parts of South Africa. ...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. ... One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased...

• Word Count: 4457
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• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. ... There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. ... King addre...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate