Upon analysis of the two movements, however, it becomes ever apparent that despite the explicit differences the Gay Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Movement are actually one in the same. ... This can be held comparable to the Jim Crow enacted in the United Sates between 1876 and 1985, under which, disallowed marriage as a legal right between enslaved Africans. ... In 29 states it is still legal to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and in 34 states it is legal to fire someone solely for being transgender (www.hrc.org) Even republic candidate Mitt Romney even admitted to &...

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And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affirmative action in today's society is that it attempts to provide a broad-brush solution when perhaps a more case-by-case analysis needs to be applied. ... Various legal disputes have been held over affirmative action in regards to college admissions, with one of the most important being held in 2009. ... The legal battle...

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They pursued their goals through legal means, negotiations, petitions, and nonviolent protest demonstrations. The civil rights movement centered on the American South, where the African American population was concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and the political and legal processes was most obvious. ... 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 f...

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Unfortunately, the researcher could not find enough info to keep the analysis solely on the state of black male for the entire analysis. ... Analysis of census data from 1940 to 1992 indicates that black children are more likely to live in a home of a grandparent(s) than are white or hispanic children (U.S. ... Many men have fallen off due to bad family life, poor education, and incarceration, which has tied up almost as many black men in the legal system as there are in college (U.S. ...

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Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. ... Precision, production, craft, and repair If an analysis was done to compare the statistical measures of today, verses that during the 1930, during the Great Depression, the numbers would be off the chart. ...

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Ferguson "separate but equal " doctrine, not only intended for public schools but to other legal formed originations that pushed segregation including public transportation. ... In an analysis of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Printed in the journal, "Liberation " in 1957, King wrote: "Because the mayor and city authorities cannot admit to themselves that we (Black Montgomerians) have changed, every move they have made has inadvertently increased the protest and united the Negro community. ...

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