When the law was passed many people fought against the integration of black and white students. ... In the end President Eisenhower told the governor that integration was the law and he had to allow it (Cozzens.) ... She boarded her regular bus and sat in one of the middle seats since it was against the law for blacks to sit near the front of the bus. ... She was arrested and charged with the violation of the segregation law. ... Nearly a year after Rosa Parks" incident the courts ruled that the segregation law is unconstitutional. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unlike before, today's racial discrimination has decreased because there is a law that prevents racial discrimination. ... In today's society gender discrimination is still exists but there are laws that prevents from keeping this from happening. ... In addition, an Egyptian-American was shot and killed near his store in San Gabriel, California and a storeowner from Pakistan was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. ... Religious discrimination is still a problem in today's society even there is law for religious discrimination. ...

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Your essay should include: slave codes, Jim Crow laws, Non-violent civil disobedience, Reconstruction, 14, 15 amendment, Plessy vs. ... Near the end of the Reconstruction Era (1877), freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote was granted under the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. ... These laws affected Black Americans. ... This case led to the desegregation of America's public schools and has had a lasting effect on American law and politics. ... Laws that allowed the separation between "White " and "Black " Americans no longer existed. ...

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Racism is a prevalent theme in the novel, which is displayed by the way the law allows it, the townspeople practice it, and how Tom Robinson suffers because of it. ... Things that showed how the law accepted racism was allowing the adults to gather around the county jail, ready to kill Tom Robinson. ... Also during the story they say that the black folks lived in another area of the town, near the dump. ...

• Word Count: 747
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• Grade Level: High School

CHILDHOOD YEARS DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 7, 1817 PLACE OF BIRTH: TUCKAHOE, MD FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND"S EASTERN SHORE. ... IN 1894 HE DELIVERS HIS LAST GREAT ADRESS, "LESSONS OF THE HOUR," A POWERFUL BURST OF HIS OLD -TIME FURY AGAINST LYNCH LAW IN THE SOUTH .IN 1895 FEBRUARY 20 ATTENDS NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN WASHINGTON D.C. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A five-hour drive from Chicago on interstate 57 South will lead you to Southern Illinois. You will encounter towns such as "Marion," "Harrisburg," "Benton," and "West Frankfort." Arguably, the most notable town in Southern Illinois is "Carbondale." A turn on Highway 13 West will lead you to Carbonda...

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Justice is defined as the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law; the principle of moral rightness. ... She sat near the front of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. ... Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. ...

• Word Count: 1213
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent black minister who dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality in America. Inspired by the conviction that nonviolence and peaceful protest could abolish social injustice, he fought hard to gain the freedoms every living person is entitl...

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Hughes lived during a time when black people could be killed while law enforcement would look the other way. ... He writes of her, "She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be."" ...

• Word Count: 1190
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• Grade Level: High School

If more people looked at the overall picture of racism and how we are no where near actual equality for all, we might make some progress as a society. ... " That information shows that African Americans as well as Latino's are automatically considered a threat or criminal when looked at by the dominant race and law enforcement. ...

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In addition, "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors". ... He said that the First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other country, as far as he knows, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. ...

• Word Count: 1085
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• Grade Level: High School