His childhood and youth Born on January 15th, 1929 as Michael Luther King in Atlanta, King had the privilege to grow up in a middle-class family. ... Looking in the future optimistically, he combined protest, accommodation, and self-help, hoping that the black community could reach an end of segregation through non-violence and self-confidence. ... Coretta and Martin were married by Daddy King in 1953. ... They chose King as their leader. ... While in prison King wrote his famous "Letter from Birm...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ferguson, and blacks were persecuted once more. ... The NAACP has proved itself to be the nation's top civil rights organization (Duncan 109) through many endeavors including anti-lynching campaigns (100), mass nonviolent protests, challenges of corrupt pay scales for black teachers (101), and the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the head of which was future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (102). ...

• Word Count: 3013
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King, author of the article "Coca-cola takes the high road" (1). ... Apply in person at: Kollision King 6127 Padre Island Hwy". ... Assuming that Kollision King placed this advertisement to recruit men, I felt as if I had been discriminated against because of my sex. ... Using Kollision King's example, the company should use the term bodywork instead of body men according to Peres (39). ... The person taking inquiries on the position could have also informed me that I was welcome to fill out the application for any other future job openings related to body work. ...

• Word Count: 2684
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Today, black defendants serve as much time in federal prison for drug offenses as white defendants serve for violent offenses-a result largely attributed to biases in federal statutory penalties for offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine (Mauer and King, 2007a). ... That is, racial differences persisted, and this persistence is difficult to understand especially once legally relevant sources of variation are addressed. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. ... Many feel the system is administered almost exclusively by whites and designed to protect the white lives and property but provide minimal protection to the life and safety of minorities like Rodney King. ... Inequality has always existed in the United States legal system and continues to exist today; even though inequality presently in the system is not as blatant as what it once was, the system has come to depend on inequality. ...

• Word Count: 3114
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United States was founded upon diversity. Racism in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they faced great oppression while giving the dominant white race the blue collar resource that they so essentially needed in order to stake their claim in the new and soon to flourish United States of America. Plagued by hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination, segregation, hatred, and victimization, ...

• Word Count: 3113
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• Grade Level: High School

A view once skewed has become straighter. ... Martin Luther King Jr., telling the students wearing those shirts that Malcom and Martin had nothing in common, and to wear such attire was a disgrace to the glorious legacy of Dr. King. ... He meet gangsters and hustlers who would be key players in the future for him. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School