The federal government favored the new industries as opposed to agriculture. During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with the latest in farm technology, and to produce more food. ... As a point of interest I saw an article that document what the government paid farmers during and after the war. It's important to keep in mind that during the war the government was paying farmers roughly $2 a bushel for wheat and after they go...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Grade Level: High School

This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... Starting with several cases in 1989, the Supreme Court has restricted affirmative action by: "[giving] greater weight to claims of reverse discrimination, outlawed the use of minority set-asides in cases where prior racial discrimination could not be proved, and placed stricter limits on states' use of racial preferences than it did on the federal governme...

• Word Count: 2072
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. ... In such cases, courts have generally insisted on applying "strict scrutiny"-the most intense level of judicial review-to government actions. Under this tough standard, the use of race in governmental decisions making may be upheld only if it serves a compelling government objective and only if it is "narrowly tailored" to advance that objective (Kennedy 70-74). ... If the fede...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. Compassion to help the underprivileged also attributed to government making the first step to take action. ... This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. Within months, Executive Order 11246 was implemented prohibiting discrimination for federal employment from race, creed, religion or national origin. ... This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

FDR called Randolph for a meeting, where Randolph made the following three demands: Immediate end to segregation and discrimination in federal government hiring, an end to segregation of the armed forces and government support for an end to discrimination and segregation in all American employment. ... Executive Order 8802 stated that federal government hiring practices would not be affected pr determined by race, color, creed, or national origin. The FEPC was supposed to enforce the order to ban discriminatory hiring within the federal government and in corporations that received federal co...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

With out any opposition from the blacks and the unity of the strong central government there was no need to create a laws constricting the power of the Afro Brazilian population. ... Natives were given the hope that if the British won they would be given their freedom and a say in the new government. ... The Dutch took advantage of the English's policy of appeasement and basically took over the government later voting to become free from the control of English Imperialism. ... South Africa was more of a centrally power based government rather than a regionally based or state based governm...

• Word Count: 2418
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• Grade Level: High School

The whites, as was intended, were the major benefactors of this system, as the system stated that they must own the vast majority of the land and that the South African federal government consist of only whites, therefore making all political decisions pro-white. ... In 1964, Nelson Mandela, the popular leader of the African National Congress, an organization to combat apartheid, was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the South African government. ... Until that time only white students had attended the school, despite a federal order that barred continue...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was prompted to have his aides draft an executive order to not only end segregation in the defense industry and the government, but mainly to have A. ... Executive Order #8802 states in part: "I do hereby affirm the policy of the United States that there should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was prompted to have his aides draft an executive order to not only end segregation in the defense industry and the government, but mainly to have A. ... Executive Order #8802 states in part: "I do hereby affirm the policy of the United States that there should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Point number two looks at the federal government and its responsibility and obligation to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. ... The black community believes that the United States government uses its police forces to oppress the black, colored and poor people. ... • We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U.S. federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. ... That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government become...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was considered a threat and named a "notorious Negro agitator " by the future first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. ... I asked, "Where is the black man's Government?" ... Marcus Mosiah Garvey was finally beginning to establish a government that could honestly represent black people. ... It was because of successes like this that the American government began to fear the man Garvey and puppeteer his ruin. ... It didn't take too long before the government became aware of Marcus Garvey's influence over black peop...

• Word Count: 2365
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• Grade Level: High School

Over the next two-and-a-half years, Assata Shakur claims she was incarcerated, beaten, and tortured in a series of federal and state prisons while being tried in six different criminal trials arranged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTEL program against the black liberation movement. ... Assata Shakur (government name JoAnne Chesimirad) was a Black Panther, which was a militant black political organization originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. ... The government wanted to "criminalize black nationalist organizations and their leaders."" ...

• Word Count: 1865
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A reparations law would also have to make the government do a background check on all the Americans who would pay the reparations to make sure he/she is a descendant of a slave owner. ... The government and tax payers have already paid trillions of dollars for discrimination in the past. Adversity.Net News and Analysis (2003) writes: Reparations 4 In the 36 years since the passage of the original Civil Rights Act of 1964, trillions of dollars in federal transfer payments, welfare payments, racial job quotas, race-based federal contract set-asides, and race based college admissions have a...

• Word Count: 1482
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. ... In this bill, the Senate objected to the idea of Congress protecting African- American voters in the South through federal supervision of state elections. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their state, not national, government. ... The Supreme Court had permitted the legal route for subordination of the Blacks to be opened; the new, now limited, amendments were n...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The reason for that being was the fact that they ran most of the cities or governments. ... As blacks struggled to defend themselves, they learned that sheriffs and law enforcement officials, mayors, governors, the FBI, the federal government, the attorney general of the United States, and even the president participated in one way or another in the maintenance of a system of segregation that declared black people inferior and denied them equal Access to the labor market and to educational opportunity Edgar The black groups saw that the Society that was supposed to help them was against th...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In several studies done by the government, individuals competed for the same job, apartment, or other goal. ... In government documents, "affirmative action" has been defined as "any effort taken to expand opportunity for women or racial, ethnic and national origin minorities by using membership in those groups that have been subject to discrimination as a consideration" (Affirmative Action Report). ... In fact, the selection of "unqualified candidates is not permitted under federal affirmative action guidelines and should not be equated with legal forms of affirmative action" (Plous). ...

• Word Count: 1479
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to a 1995 government report, white males make up only 29 percent of the workforce, but they hold 95 percent of senior management positions, (Skylar 1995, 115). ... The review found that the programs have been successful in meeting the government's goal of increasing the percentage of minorities and women receiving federal contracts., (Washington Post 7/95, A1). ...

• Word Count: 1454
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Even though many were financially ruined by their dealings in the South many still entered a political struggle to clean up the Southern government. ... Recognizing that there were very few Southerners who were involved and supported the Republican Party, many carpetbaggers joined the ranks and held position in Southern governments. ... An exaggeration but none the less, it's not hard to believe that the rebels would oppose such a government composed of foreigners. ... The author tells us how the rebels vilified Longstreets name and circulated rumors that he had sold out himself so he ...

• Word Count: 2362
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• Grade Level: High School

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified in 1870, prohibits federal or state governments from infringing on a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color or previous servitude." ... In the late 1960's some progress was made after a series of civil rights protests and the passage of federal laws desegregating other public facilities. ...

• Word Count: 1554
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This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. ... Our most powerful and sacred document that holds all the power in the government is colorblind. ... The US government has " more than ninety thousand organizations with contracts valued at $50,000 or more." ... In order to create a system that is fair the government needs to do additional research in improving its present situation. ... Herzberger, the debate is whether the government truly believes in their laws or if they are simply using it as campaign fuel. ...

• Word Count: 2152
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They were ready to shoot down the enemy (Union Army) and destroy the Federal government. ... It seems the White government of some southern states couldn't stand the idea that Blacks were equal to Whites. ...

• Word Count: 1754
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They have risen above centuries of oppression so that, today, after years of dealing with society's racist and sexist misconceptions, with its brutal hostilities and unthinkable mistreatment, not only are they supporting families, they"re leading corporations, major media organizations, the military, our state and federal governments. ...

• Word Count: 1267
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through their non-violent confrontations in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, and the March on Washington, participants in the Civil Rights Movement won both widespread media coverage and government intervention. The Movement's crowning legislative achievement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination in places of public accommodation, enforced the Constitutional right to vote, established a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning in the late 19th century, state and local governments passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws, and mandated restrictions on voting qualifications that left the black population economically and politically powerless. ... After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to apply plans, such as school-district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and faculty under one roof. ...

• Word Count: 1513
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