Suddenly, the black man was rushed back to square one with the advent of Jim Crow. ... The white man thought the same with slavery but that proved to be an erroneous assertion. ... Black activists started campaigning for what later became the notorious Rockefeller drug laws and other unreasonable sentencing measures. ... Initially, there was much controversy regarding whether the federal government should play a role in crime because traditionally that was the local government's domain. ... The emergence of crack cocaine, which was largely started by corrupt politicians one could argue, w...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. ... With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. ... The new deal had again failed with the creat...

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• Grade Level: High School

With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... King and other civil rights leaders, like Philip Randolph and Roy Wilkins met with president Eisenhower, with no results. ... He was welcomed by the prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and discussed with followers of Gandhi. ... Students started sit-ins to integrate lunch-counters. ... During such a sit-in King was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in jail on the pretex...

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The Civil Rights Movement got off to a swift start in 1960. ... In my opinion the Greensboro sit-ins were the starting line for the entire Civil Rights Movement. ... This was a brave act indeed and literally started an entire movement that has changed the course of history for the greater good. ... This affected Meredith because he was convicted of false voter registration. ... Both were sentenced to life in prison. ...

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One night, the entire Dodgers team was dragged out of their beds for an important team meeting because of a petition the players signed refusing to play with Jackie. ... His teamwork led him to the pennants and championships that he earned with the Dodgers. ... He could not quit playing because he believed strongly in integration and knew that he might be the African-Americans' only chance to play baseball with whites. ... Having this knowledge made him stick with baseball even when he thought about quitting. While being refused service at a hotel in PA, Jackie got in an altercation with ...

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Introduction With the publication of his novel Invisible Man in 1952 Ralph Ellison certainly had his masterpiece. ... This fact is also evident in the last sentence of the novel when the author addresses to the reader stating "that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you" (469). ... Hence forced to cope with his past he begins to develop a new racial consciousness - an important step in his search for identity as it is closely connected with his freedom. ("When I discover who I am, I'll be free", 198) After the stay at the hospital the invisible man starts living ...

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England or Germany), it is the proverbial "melting pot" and it has become a force with which to be reckoned. ... Because of opposition to his views, he was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of mail fraud. He was sentenced to five years. ... It started in the 1930's when a man who called himself W. ... He moved to Chicago and started Muslim Temple Number 2 and established his headquarters there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When someone describes America the first thing most would say is that it is the land of opportunity where all men are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. ... The southern slave owning states made it clear that they did not want the federal government to interfere with their ability to own slaves. ... This approval provided white slave owners with a lot more power which lead individuals to believe that white supremacy was not only the new belief system but the only system that was right for the American people as a whole. ... This resulted in an even larger gap between white...

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It was always going to be a long and arduous journey with perhaps no complete end. ... King would soon come face to face with this black and white struggle soon enough anyway when his two best friends, young white boys who lived across the street, were no longer allowed to play with him. ... Another early experience of discrimination would come about with his father. ... When he was fourteen we travelled to Georgia with his teacher to participate in an oratorical contest there. He ended up winning with his subject "The Negro and the Constitution". ...

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• Grade Level: High School