Most slave revolts occurred in the South, and the majority of Garvey organizational branches were in the South as well. ... Two, this was the first time in American History that blacks adopted nonviolent tactics as a way of bring social change. ... However, the movement led to the formation of another civil rights organization that remains to this day. The organization was the NAACP which was founded in 1909. ... By 1914, the organization grew to 35,000 members and 50 branches in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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The new social science of his time was based on seeking truth of human history through an examination of historical documents; therefore DuBois adopted this new method and as a researcher, conducted many studies including one on the urbanization of blacks in the North (The Philadelphia Negro) and the organization of blacks in the South (The Atlanta University Publications). ... In the summer of 1905 DuBois founded an organization entitled the Niagara Movement. ... DuBois believed that social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest. ... The movement, however, ceased to...

• Word Count: 1561
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Racial and social justice was the root factor to start the American Civil Rights Movement, due to years of racial segregation such as the Jim Crow Segregation. ... The NAACP was an important organization during the movement as they nationally and locally established several branches within their communities to combat discrimination(Austin, 2003). ... To further state the organizational strength of the movement, an incident in 1960 will be discussed. ... It opened up new social, economic and political opportunities for African Americans. ... However, by the end of the 60s, the movement turned t...

• Word Count: 1999
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Noted African-American social psychologist, Kenneth B. ... Of the American educational institution he writes: "To what extent are the contemporary social deprivation theories merely substitution notions of environmental immutability fatalism for earlier notions of biologically determined educational unmodifiability."... He believes that the individual is the single most important consideration in coalition building and that it is the individual's personal ideology that will define his willingness to participate in multiracial organizations, institutionalized racism notwithstanding. ...

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Discrimination is defined as different treatment of others based solely on their membership in a socially distinct group or category, such as race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. ... They founded the National Organization for Women to press for equality. ...

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From (1941) noted that the basis of group psychology is the individual personality and defined social character as that part of the individual character structure that is common to most members of a group."1 "The dynamics of the KKK may be better understood in terms of the individual psycho-dynamics of the group members. ... As we have seen in the case of KKK, the prejudice has spread because of the propaganda they have been scattering and it was vastly inflamed by the demagogues of this organization."6 Symptoms of cult influence: 1. ... "Evidence suggests that the route to violent far-right ...

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In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... African Americans desperately wanted to move up in social standing and become educated. ... The black man was viewed as being part of a system where they were thrown into the bottom of the social classes with no legal status." ... This group was the strongest and most visible of any of the racial organizations. ... (Current, pg.105) The Klan and similar organizations sought to destroy the Republican Par...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

The social conditions in which minorities endure are tough which makes them act a certain way. ... Citizens and Police review boards can play proactive and reactive roles in monitoring individual police behavior as well as problematic organizational practices. Aggressive enforcement of civil rights laws will also play a key role in encouraging police to continue to monitor and address prejudice and discrimination inside their organizations. ... Training law enforcement officers how to more efficiently carry out the essential policing without avoid using this counter-productive procedure will n...

• Word Count: 1374
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Overall, both assailants and nonassailants reported more antigay social norms among their parents than among their peers, and assailants reported significantly more antigay social norms than did nonassailants (Franklin, 2000). ... According to an HBO special on hate on the internet, large hate organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi skin heads are able to elicit more information than they ever have in the past through the internet. ... Unfortunately family influence is extremely strong within the hate organizations. ...

• Word Count: 1661
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The desire for equality in these aspects was the springing of political movement building that brought about important organizations and events, and eventually the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only represents a period of intensity in legislative activity but it also reflects the changing nature of social conditions in the United States. ... The passage ...

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A Church of the Creator member should not under no circumstances meet with any non-white on a social basis. ... The White race is the religion of the organization. 2. ... The organization only had seven or eight members he was given interviews with national news medias such as NBC, CNN and the AP. ... The organization was weak and only lasted a short time. ...

• Word Count: 1899
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• Grade Level: High School

in the Greek system should be broken in order to diversify the organizations and lead to the changes necessary to end segregation and discrimination for good. ... The only difference or change would be that this fraternity could have another addition, contributing as a great asset to improve their organization. ... The battle to end such a crucial social issue is not completely hopeless. ...

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This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. ... In 1866 Nathan Bedford Forest founded the KKK, a militant white supremacy organization, which along with the Knights of the White Camellia, intimidated blacks from voting and exercising their liberties, as well as threatening violence to any black who tried to infringe on the superiority of whites. ... White did not want to see blacks entering their realm of business and politics and Washington's approach pleased them because ...

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Taking action to end racism is the challenge and responsibility of every single person in our society, as well as of the institutions and organizations, which have such a large impact on our lives. Yet today there is an outspoken minority who want to stop affirmative action not only as a legal remedy, but also as a social commitment. Now that affirmative action has led to some social changes there are those who are saying our society has gone too far in correcting racial injustice. ... Despite the obstacles posed by our institutions and political culture, the evidence indicates that immigrants...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern American racism is a cause of many detrimental social issues. ... Some of the kids desire to make more money and yearn to have some form of financial stability, so they join the drug trade by working for some drug dealing organization. ... The drug trade was a good idea on paper, and had good intentions to bring out about social harmony, but eventually became a program that accidentally targeted and incarcerated minorities at a staggering rate. ...

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In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. ... They also began to form strong opinions against the Southern White Democrat, and from 1894 to 1896 began a political organization known as the Populist Party. ... Happening in the beginning of the story well before the riot, the meeting symbolizes the strictness of past social policies regarding race. ...

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He represents the American ideals of courage and aggressive determination in order to accomplish social change. ... He was a key figure in the Civil Rights movement because he constantly fought for minority rights, an end to poverty, and an overall increase in social equality in the United States. ...

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Apartheid called for the separation of whites, blacks, people of mixed race, and Asians in all political and social institutions. ... In 1964, Nelson Mandela, the popular leader of the African National Congress, an organization to combat apartheid, was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the South African government. ... Since they began to emigrate as slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African- Americans have had to struggle for equal rights, both politically and socially, in their own country. ... Although blacks and whites are equal under ...

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Relations between black and white people in Dade County were cordial, as long as black people understood that they were not the social equals of whites. ... As valiant as the protest efforts were in helping to defeat Jim Crow segregation, the practice of White racial domination modified its method to adapt to new patterns of societal organization. ... A social and economic struggle inevitably accompanied African Americans during and after the Civil Rights Movement in Miami. ...

• Word Count: 1986
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The Ku Klux Klan had a great impact on all areas of society. African American society, along with Jews, immigrants and Roman Catholics and any other group not complying with the KKK's white protestant views were discriminated against. All areas of society were not only affected by discrimination ...

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World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict, aside from the Civil War, to occur in the history of mankind. It was a war waged on land, sea and air that lasted for approximately six years. Cities lay in ruins due to aerial bombing and hometown battles, which spread destruction over l...

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Wells: A Crusader for America Introduction- Ida was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans. ... She attended the organizational meeting for the NAACP and attended meetings threw its starting years to reform the racial injustices of our country. ...

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The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246. This order required federal contractors to ...

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As representatives of a United States Non-Government Organization, and several International Psychological Associations, we are especially pleased to have this opportunity to add our voice to the world-wide victims of racism. ... Racism serves simultaneously both to rationalize the hierarchical domination of one racial or ethnic group over other group(s), and maintain psychological, social, and material advantages for the dominant group. ...

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In his article, Yoshino states that "Discrimination used to take aim at entire social groups. ... In 1997, Diana Piantanida had a child and took maternity leave from her job at a charitable organization, the Wyman Center. ...

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