Winona LaDuke tells of more than 1,000 tailings and slag piles from uranium mines dumped in Native American Din land (3). ... The South returned to the new discrimination called Jim Crow, backed by the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy vs. ... The Solid South was no less than "totalitarian (Duncan 73)." Then came the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century. ... Eventually Plessy was overturned in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Then in September 1958 Governor Faubus closed all the public high schools in Little Rock in what the Supreme Court called an "evasive scheme" to prevent integration. ... County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968 v/s The court found a "freedom of choice" plan to be inadequate because it failed to achieve desegregated schools and because it placed the burden of eliminating segregation on parents and children rather than on the government which had fostered it. ... By the 1990's, the proportion of black students in majority white schools has decreased by 13 percentage point...

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As a society, we have made so many improvements in so many different fields, yet the black man is arguably equally if not more oppressed than he was during the civil rights movement. ... This is when your social status depends on the color of your skin or where you come from, rather than who you are and what you could make of yourself. ... They called them savages and made eliminating them a moral duty, rather than a moral sin (Alexander, 23). ...

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Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... Increasingly the police are seen by people of color as an occupying army whose role is to protect property rights rather than people and to enforce order against oppressed groups. Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime, while only 4% of white males w...

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

In effect, he would not agree that a loyalty to anything less than the entire human race is dangerous because he believes that individuals must first be loyal and conscious of their particular identities in order to become valuable citizens. ... Being loyal to anything less than the entire human race is a danger to the value of natural rights for all mankind. ... These people are loyal to nothing less than the human race as a whole. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's is considered begin with the court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education. ... Oliver then turned his problem over to the NAACP. ... King's words were different than most African American preachers of the day. ... On August 28th 1963, more than 200,000 people marched peacefully to the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. ... Initially, King led mass meetings and then eventually organized marches in Selma. ...

• Word Count: 3309
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• Grade Level: High School

This data was use in the Brown vs. ... The singer Jennifer Holiday is a well-known singer and actress on Broadway who suffered for ten years before she admitted publicly that she had more than a case of the blues. ... She then realizes she cannot do all things that have been put upon her to do. ...

• Word Count: 2505
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• Grade Level: High School