Simpson, and Rodney King are victims of racism and many others like them in this country are also victims of the same thing. ... Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. ... Simpson might have become depressed and continue being that way until he let out his feelings on his ex-wife and her friend. ... O.J.Simpson killed his ex-wife and her friend and was supported by the NAACP during some point in the case. ... It is still unfair for people who are still treated as outcasts in this great country of ours. ...

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JFK- prevented nuclear war PET- and then in 1983-84 to a personal peace initiative in which he visited leaders in several countries in both the eastern and western blocs to persuade them to negotiate the reduction of nuclear weapons and to lower the level of Cold War tensions. ... Trudeau ushered an era into Canadian politics that the country was in dire need of. ... Kennedy in the US, Trudeau brought about a mystique to serving one's country in public office. ... Perhaps Trudeau's greatest accomplishment as prime minister, was that he was able to balance his popularity with his abi...

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In less than a year, his father Edwin, a country doctor, married a second time - this time to Isabel Warner. ... After graduating from Yale in 1908, he began traveling miscellaneously around the country, going from Iowa to New York to San Francisco to Washington and back to New York again. ... Then, with money finally in the bank, he set off with his wife on another wandering throughout America. ... All over the country Sinclair Lewis was "denounced as a villain and a traitor- (Schorer, 12), and yet, all over the country thousands of people bought the novel. ...

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He was the youngest child of the three surviving Hoover children born to Dickerson Naylor Hoover and his wife, Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover. ... Hoover branded them by saying they were "beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in the country." ... Hoover used the FBI's "resources" to blackmail King by sending sexual incriminating tapes of him to his wife. ...

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This may have seemed true to some, but it is not very accurate for a majority of the country. ... LeAlan and Lloyd speak about the struggles of being minorities from a lower class, "What have my people done to this country to deserve this? ... Prejudice is obvious in Of Mice and Men with the treatment of Lennie, due to his lack of mental abilities, Crooks, due to his race, and Curley's wife because she is a woman. ... America is a country raised on freedom and choice. ...

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Our country may still be the same if it was not for the works of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. ... The difference in their backgrounds caused the two men to act differently and approach the problem of racism in this country with different methods. ... As he states in his speech: But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you...

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There other immigrant is America, who is the wife Candido. ... America came to this country with nothing and was able to make money for her family. Even though Candido clearly said that he did not want her to work she ignored him insisting that "'Someone has to go.- (49) This was America's attitude towards staying strong in this country, whether it be man or woman. ...

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent black minister who dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality in America. Inspired by the conviction that nonviolence and peaceful protest could abolish social injustice, he fought hard to gain the freedoms every living person is entitl...

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., and his wife Alberta Williams stressed the importance of education. ... Over the years King, Jr would rise through the social ranks of his local black community to eventually become a household name around the country. ... King and his wife were desperately hoping for about a sixty percent success rate. ... For over a year the boycott continued and gradually so did support from around the country. ...

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King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. ... Of the event, she writes, "I pray for this young man and the conditions in our country that have made him this way. ... Forty years later, despite some tremendous gains, Parks feels, "we still have a long way to go in improving the race relations in this country". ...

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Rowan, the director of the United States Information Agency, could not understand why Asian and African countries paid tribute to an "ex dope dealer" and "ex con." ... While the Asian and African countries, who paid tribute agree with Cone that Malcolm X was worthy of praise and helped the black cause for equality. Citing Rowan, Asian, and African countries Cone uses oral history and historical analysis as his methodology. ... Cone also quotes King's wife, Coretta, who said King saw her as a "homemaker" and expected her to be "home waiting for him." ...

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Through his wife he found understanding for his commitment for the Civil Rights Movement. ... It was during this time that King and his wife had their last child, Bernice Albertine, on March 28, 1963. ...

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This movement proved to be a big impact on our country's history. ... Kennedy was survived by his wife and his two children. ... Another "activist" of the day was lady bird johnson, president johnson's wife. ...

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He follows through this fallacy by saying that whites "might out number us in this country but do not outnumber us all over the earth" (Malcolm 232). ... ur first name becomes "nigger," and your middle name becomes "boy" and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs.""...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Throughout his life, King was known best as a Civil Rights Leader. King was born into a family of Baptist Ministers. King grew up in a time when the opportunities for education and experience were not available to children in poorer urban and rural areas....

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the bl...

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Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. ... As he left, he said "Bye baby" to Carolyn Bryant, the wife of the storeowner. ...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...

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