After effectively treating just over 1/10 of their intended patients, the government's funds towards this operation ran out. ... This rumor ultimately drove Clark and his medical team to seek the approval they required from government officials. ... Various other obstacles had to be overcome for the federal government to keep the study intact, including the discovery of Penicillin and its healing effects on syphilis, and the Martin Luther King Jr. ... Across the nation, individuals involved in medicine began to attempt to expose the Tuskegee Study, however the federal government time mana...

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It guarantees equal voting rights prohibits segregation or discrimination in places of public accommodation bans discrimination, including sex-based discrimination, by trade unions, schools, or employers that are involved in interstate commerce or do business with the federal government calls for the desegregation of public schools and assures nondiscrimination in the distribution of funds under federally assisted programs. A 1972 amendment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, extended coverage to employees of state and local governments and increased the authority of the Equal Employment Op...

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The struggle between segregationists and integrationists, State of Arkansas and the federal government, and President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas became known as the "Little Rock Crisis." ... Members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned a protest that would force the federal government to respond to and support the Civil Rights Movement. the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Morgan V. ... This order committed the federal government to enforcing the 1947 and 1960 Supreme Court rulings. ... The protests forced the federal government to acknowledge its responsibilit...

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This act also authorized the federal government to bring to court any person, store or school, or any other public facility if they failed to desegregate. ... In his plan, he demanded that the government would give a federal annual income for the poor people. ...

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JFK- wore wrinkled khaki's to Congress PET- wore sandals to house of commons JFK-Cuban Missle Crisis PET- War Measures Act JFK-Civil Rights Movement-pushed equality on the top of nations agenda PET-Official Languages Act JFK- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- inaugural speech PET- "The Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation- JFK-new level of idealism and activism PET- Charter of Rights and Freedoms, JFK-Televised debate, he won- Radio-Nixon won- awesome speaker, good presence PET-Same thing, used the me...

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Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... McKissack 57), and when Rutherford Hayes was elected, he retrieved all federal troops from the South, ending the Reconstruction era, and also ending the enforcement of civil rights (59-60). ... The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... The ideas before the Civil Rights Movement included racism and white supremacy, government apathy, and the will of African-Americans to rise from a slum of poverty and discrimination. ... Moving to governme...

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In 1955, Ray broke his first federal law, stealing and forging postal money orders. ... It was government policy."" ... I think Ray was an escape-goat for a government conspiracy. ... Only god, James Earl, and the government know what really happened. ... Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Conspirators that Loyd Jowers and governmental agencies including the City of Memphis, the State of Tennessee, and the federal government were tied to the conspiracy to assassinate Dr. ...

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The African Americans of Montgomery won their rights on June 2, 1956, when a federal court ruled for the Montgomery Improvement Association and declared segregated bus service to be unconstitutional. ... Henry David Thoreau felt that the best type of government was "That government is best which governs not at all." ... They both were willing to go to jail instead of complying with the government. ...

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In American Government In Black And White Mcclain and Tauber said, "The designation of a person's race in the United States has historically been decided by American society's desire to exclude groups of people from participation in the social and political life of the nation.... This proclamation was enacted in 1863 but was not regulated in states that the federal government did not have jurisdiction over. ... The phrase "separate but equal" was put into full effect during this time according to the government, however African Americans did not find that these laws we...

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This was designed to prompt the federal government to strengthen its anti-poverty efforts. ... She also led the successful effort to honor her husband with a federally mandated King national holiday, which was first celebrated in 1986....

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The MIA filed a lawsuit in February 1956 to desegregate the city buses, in November of 1956 the federal courts ruled in the MIA's favor ordering Montgomery City buses to be desegreated. ... King's demonstrations and other acts toward segregation forced the federal government to recognize the issues of injustice and racism in South. ...

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The Civil Rights campaigns and methods of protest were ideal at this time, because of post war disappointment as Americans were displeased with the governments decisions, therefore it was easier to oppose the governments actions, and accuse them of wrong doing, regarding both National and International relations. ... Martin Luther King's methods and policies were a great contribution to the success of civil rights campaigners, his policy of non-violent civil disobedience was a goal scorer for civil campaigners as this method pressured the state authorities and Federal Government to hear t...

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Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. ... Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... In the 1940's and 50's things changed, not because attitudes in the south wsa changing, but because the government forced them to. ... A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but t...

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Here, he rose quickly in government service. ... Hoover designed the now called FBI to structurize police forces and allow them to use Federal assistance such as the FBI's forensic abilities and laboratories. ... Under the direction of Hoover, The BOI grew in responsibility and importance, becoming an integral part of the national government and an icon in American popular culture. ...

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Powell, elected to Congress from Harlem in 1944, was able to maintain a positive relationship with the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations however many senators felt that Powell was shown political favoritism by government agencies when receiving federal loans and grants. ... Despite the tensions Powell faced in government at the national and local level, his true power lied in his coalition in the electorate. ... As long as Dawson acted the way Daley told him to act, he was assured the inclusion of the Chicago municipal government in his coalition in government. ... He ...

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But the First Amendment exists precisely to protect the most offensive and controversial speech from government suppression. ... According to the guidelines of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for indecent speech, which define indecent speech as, "limited to language or material that depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as much by the contemporary community standards for the broadcast means, sexual activities or organs," then hate speech is not indecent speech either (Pullma). ... The first amendment states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishm...

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The 15th Amendment prohibits the government from rejecting any American citizen from participation in government activities regardless of his or her race. ... The non- violent protests eventually forced federal government to pass legislation against racial discrimination. ...

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With the use of Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes local governments had found a way to abide by the new amendments but still prevent African-Americans from voting. Jim Crow laws also prevented freedoms given to African-Americans by the government, until two court cases challenged the laws and segregation. ... Sharpe (1954), extended the ruling on segregation to the District of Columbia, under the Fifth Amendment that applied to the national government, rather than the states. ... The Voting Rights Act eliminated Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and other voter examinations and allowed federal exami...

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The core democratic value I will be focusing on in my report will be equality. Equality means that every individual is created the same, every individual shall receive the same treatment, and every individual shall receive equal opportunities. This is a main area of focus in the United States, but...

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With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ...

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President Kennedy responded to these protests in king's favor by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which "placed greater responsibility on the federal government to protect previously disenfranchised groups from discriminatory treatment" ("Civil Rights Movement" Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. 1992 ed.) ...

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This implies that the new government that was being formed derived its control from the people, which would serve to prevent it from becoming corrupt and disinterested in the people, like Jefferson. The Constitution specifies a federal system of government, which gives each individual state the right to a government and should be directly elected by the people. ... Gandhi's protest provoked a strong reaction from the government, which jailed him repeatedly. It is as thou history has repeated itself directly on King with the visions of peace and brotherhood, but with a government who wa...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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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...

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This case "_became the cornerstone of sweeping changes (Chalmers 17)" because the decade following the Brown decision "_witnessed a complex interplay of forces between black citizens striving to exercise their constitutional rights, the increasing resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the federal government (Robinson 2)." ... SCLC petitioned a federal district judge for an order that would allow them to march again without any interference from the police. ... State juries found the Klansmen innocent on the murder charge, but were eventually convicted in federal cour...

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