In the eyes of some citizens, the Constitution is an oxymoron. The reality in the American Dream contradicts its-self with the history of slavery, and the injustices with economics and inequality. ... African American citizens have endured the unequal terms set by the Constitution. For example, "the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution-the ideal of equal citizenship under the law that promised its people liberty" (Obama 1). ... In the United States, whites have a long history of manipulation of the virtues that hold this country together based on the Constitu...

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George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government.... The first amendment of the Constitution prohibits Congress from taking away one's right of speech, press, petition, as well as religion, which is a valuable part of being an American. ... That's a luxury that Americans get when we turn 16 and they fight for the freedoms all American women gained when congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution on June 4, 1919. Early in America's history we faced certain periods...

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School Desegregation Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... In recent history, blacks were kept separate from the Caucasians in every faucet of society, predominately in educational facilities. ... The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ...

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Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... In recent history, blacks were kept separate from the Caucasians in every faucet of society, predominately in educational facilities. ... The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ...

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Reconstruction was the period of U.S. history from 1865 through 1877, during which the states that had seceded during the Civil War were reorganized under federal control and later restored to the Union. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. ... Because the railroad provided "separate but equal" facilities for blacks, the Court decided that the equal protection clause of the Constitution had not been violated. ...

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Essay America has been tainted with racial inequality, discriminations, segregation and hatred throughout its history. ... (Rein) Since then, racial inequality has been an issue in American history shown by slavery; slave codes in which slave-owners had absolute power over their slaves, Jim Crow Laws, and numerous Supreme Court decisions such as the Plessy vs. ... In the end the Supreme Court found Plessy guilty and ruled that racial segregation was legal and it did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States as long as the separate facilities for Blacks and Whites ...

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Reconstruction Our history has been a bitter one dominated by colonialism, racism, apartheid, sexism and repressive labor policies. The Civil War was perhaps the most momentous event in American history. ... A war that was so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure. ... It took more than 75 years after the Constitution was adopted, and a bloody Civil War before civil rights amendment was added to the Bill of Rights. ...

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama. It influenced the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which made segregated seating on buses unconstitutional. There were three effects that the Montgomery Bus B...

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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.) ... Overall, America was put on the right track by the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and he will always be remembered as one of the greatest reformers in the history of the World....

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Introduction  In the 1950's and 1960's the Civil Rights Movement was a popular movement to end segregation amongst blacks and whites and for the black population to earn equal rights. During that era black lives really did not matter and they felt as if they did not belong. Blacks were tired of bei...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of America in the 1960's by banning discrimination of people based on race, sex, national origin and religion. Because of this important social movement, African Americans and other minorities were more involved in everyday life by being allowed to work ...

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Board of Education case 1954, Thurgood Marshall's practitioner approach fought segregation by means of implicating the laws previously set forth by the constitution. ... The use of "psychological knowledge" as central evidence of the harmful effects of segregation was a striking innovation in American legal history and helped in the Brown decision. ...

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