The rules of the game have simply changed and have produced starkly similar results. Legal scholar Reva Siegel dubs this "preservation through transformation", which is the process through which white privilege is maintained, though the rules and rhetoric change. ... According William Julius Wilson, in his book When Work Disappears, "the overwhelming majority of African-Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded, schools lacking basic resources....

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... To this day, the systematic oppression of the black man and woman as a result of their kidnapping and being forced into slave labor has eternalized itself in our society and has found its home within the minds of the vast majority of white citizens. ... This special population of people almost entirely means the black man who occupies the majority of all poor urban areas nationwide. ... First they were brought to this country to become slaves, next they were r...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Several historians have formed a "Missouri thesis," which traces the Mormons" belief in black racial inferiority to the period in history when the majority of members of the Mormon Church resided in the slave state of Missouri. ...

• Word Count: 3075
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An important aspect of such actions was that they constituted part if a movement that politically conscious policy makers began to consider when examining U.S. foreign policy toward minority white-ruled governments on the African continent (Schraeder, U.S. ... With this new attention firmly placed upon the actions of governments with minority white rule, American policies took a public shift in policy due to pressures from growing American opposition with the acceptation of their somewhat quiet support of South Africa until the Reagan defeat. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. He is just one of the motivating start buttons to the movement that I think could have been written about a thousand times and still not cover the complexity of his heart, strength and ideas. I believe this is why I have chosen to do my report on him out of all the other justices to date. His life alone has brought about so many changes in social, racial, and political America that without his assistance today's world would not be, at all, as it is at this moment in time. The book I read was called D...

• Word Count: 4823
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Carter, pg.21) In that same year, the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British rule. ... Black children in Nova Scotia and Ontario at this time were asked to name the Black person they admired the most and majority of the kids answers were Dr. ... In the prairies, the majority of Blacks who homesteaded did so in Alberta. ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

agrees: "since the majority of R&B artists were black, and most radio station owners were white, many artists had difficulty getting their music on the air. ... It was very uncommon for slaves to have actual churches to attend because of harsh rules laid down by white authorities. ... Yet the majority of the artists were still white, and had no trouble finding radio stations to play their music and finding record labels to sign them. ...

• Word Count: 2641
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Supreme Court ruled that he had the right to attend the University of Mississippi. ... Meredith from registering at the University even after the Supreme Court ruled. ... By the 1990's, the proportion of black students in majority white schools has decreased by 13 percentage points, to a level lower than any year since 1968. ...

• Word Count: 6633
• Approx Pages: 27

A majority of these units are poorly maintained and often do not even seem livable. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The vast majority of non-black people of that time believed that blacks were not equal to other races. ... Any court that rules only after considering the racial implications is not just, despite the trust many have placed in the judicial system. ...

• Word Count: 2518
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...

• Word Count: 3205
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School