From slavery to today, many laws has been implemented which would normally restrict blacks from improving their social and economic standards. ... A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by a free person. ... Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ... In the l...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6

Segregation was a vast setback for the blacks, which was the system of laws and customs separating blacks and that whites used to control blacks after slavery was abolished (Norton 590). ... They began to pass local and state laws that particularized certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." ... While these laws directly affected the social status of African American citizens they were implemented through political hierarchy. ... The sit-in tactic of nonviolence protest to the immoral laws was well used. ... These laws were difficult to follow and overwhelming, but blacks ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. ... Despite having the Fourteenth Amendment that states all citizens have equal protection of the laws, the Civil Rights Cases found a way around it. ... The near-total disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi led to a constitutional convention in 1890. ... In his "Niagara Address", Du Bois demands, "We want the laws enforced against the rich as well as poor; against white as well as black. ... She insists that the law must bring severe punishment to the lynchers, but that it couldn't be done witho...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Anne writes about the unspeakable treatment that was socially imposed on African Americans, otherwise known as the Jim Crowe laws. ... They were laws that were set in stone, yet her innocence clouded her judgement about the racial differences that constructed the society in her neighborhood. ... She was intellectual and competitive in school work which allowed her to question morals and laws that was place in society. ... Though near the end I was quite disappointed about how she evaluated "The Movement". ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He is likewise renowned for his eagerness to compose on any subject essential and near to him, and never being hesitant to go to bat for what he believed to be right. ... At that point the landlord will advise the police and get the man apprehended, saying that the man is testing the law. ...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After becoming bored with practicing law, Johnson met up with his brother Rosamond in 1899 and the two of them over the years would compose many pieces of music with the most recognizable being "Lift Every Voice and Sing." ... James Weldon Johnson probably would have lived a long and healthy life but tragedy struck when he was killed in a car accident near Wiscasset, Maine. ...

• Word Count: 1687
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her plans for Bob extend past their plans together, including "his" plans to return to school and study law. ... In early WWII, about 50,000 Japanese citizens living near the American west coast and their 70,000 American born descendants, virtually all children and young adults, were forcibly removed from the area, most of them to internment or relocation camps. ...

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

Near the end of the 1990's, rap became associated more and more with its negative manifestations, specifically "gangsta rap," but also very misogynistic, materialistic, violent, and over-sexualized lyrics and images. ...

• Word Count: 2443
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate