Two political leaders with substantial influence over minority politics and civil rights legislation during the Civil Rights Era were Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a democrat from New York City, and William L. ... Unfortunately, Powell was unable to establish good relationships with the political leadership in New York City. Mayor La Guardia and the black political leadership in New York City during the Civil Rights Era were totally ineffective and counterproductive to the idea of black power according to Congressman Powell. ... Through religion and teaching he was able to earn the loya...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. ... After awhile he leaves and begins to work on the railroad, this eventually led to his first trip in New York City. He eventually lives in Harlem, New York. ... He is appointed minister by Muhammad for the New York City Temple" ("Malcolm X.... After his trip to Africa, Malcolm visits African cities and wants African citizens to support a move for the United states, violating African American rights. ...

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James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. ... Growing up in Harlem, New York, Baldwin experienced the unpleasantness of poverty. ... This mainly occurred in the Harlem district of New York City. ... Paris had long been open to American writers and African-American artists, and Baldwin was glad to be away from the chaotic drive of New York City. ...

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Each department from each city or county was required to complete and turn these forms over to the state, so the statistics for each city or county could be compiled. The two parts the state centered on were the Disparity index (proportion of stops/portion of population in the city or county. ... For example, population data used to calculate the disparity index does not include members of the minority community that reside in St Louis City and therefore increases the diversity of drivers on the roads within St Louis County. ... The following is an example of a story from an ACLU publication t...

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Even within the South, New Orleans, Louisiana developed into one of the most civilly diverse cities. ... As these evils continued to multiply, however, the glorious Harlem Renaissance was being born in New York. At this time, New York was one of the segregated areas, but African-Americans used the isolation to their advantage. ...

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James Arthur Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York where he lived for the next twenty-four years. ... Baldwin grew up in New York City, as a young black homosexual. A city where racism was not only common place, for much of his life it was legal. ...

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In chapter seven you begin to see how the "majority" of society sees him they don't as he goes down into the subway before his first trip on the subway he feels all important, With letters in hand which are suppose to help him find a job he walks down feeling someone will take notice, and he will stand out in a crowd, however he is immediately made to feel small and insignificant in reaching New York. ... An apt allusion, he overwhelmed is by the city he is sent to. ... The subway is showing how in New York, a place he is traveling to find himself, and where others will take notice, he i...

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Owens was congratulated and welcomed home by a ticker-tape parade in New York City. ... "On August 18, 1946, before twenty thousand people at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, Robinson made his debut with a home run, three bunt singles, and a pair of stolen bases. ...

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BENJAMIN: Sure I know that's Chinatown That doesn't mean I know where Chinatown-- RONNIE: So why is it that you picked me, of all the street musicians in the City "to point you in the direction of Chinatown?... ... Where you can find the best dim sum in the City? ... Adopted by Chinese parents at a young age, he was visiting New York in search of his late father's house, the place his father had been born, and "swore he would never return- to. ...

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Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone except them. ... In The Comet, Du Bois expends a lot of thought and attention on portraying the lifeless city after the disaster to emphasize the embedment of racism in society. ... Du Bois uses the careful description of this dire and silent post-apocalyptic city to underlie the characters' unvoiced fear and uncertainty about the future. ...

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Hate crime legislation is discrimination. That's right, pure discrimination. But you're probably thinking this is ironic, as you've been told hate crimes are supposed to fight this very thing. And after all, this is America, the land where we're supposed to be of any gender, race, religion, or sexua...

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In the month of June 1953, the first major battle of modern civil rights movement took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where blacks successfully carried out a mass boycotts against that city's segregated bus system. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ... Once word got out other cities around the south began bus boycotting as well such as Tallahassee, Florida. ...

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Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used ...

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James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...

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In the Gang Crisis article by William Triplett, it mentioned stories about how many gangs are trying to kill each other off, not only in California and New York but in several other states, and how the number of gangs has increased each year (Triplett). ... In California alone there are more that 46 gangs, some of the most popular gangs are the Blood and the Crips (which happen to be known nationwide, I know of some Crips members here in our very own Salt Lake City). ...

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The article "The Pressure to Cover," by Kenji Yoshino is an excerpt from his book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. The article was published in The New York Times Magazine on January 15th, 2006. An important fact about Yoshino is that he is a Japanese homosexual as well as a profess...

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Description of the Problem America is the most diverse nation in the world. In this diverse nation one would assume that equality would exist. However it does not, especially in the Criminal Justice System. Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System results from the dissimilar treatment of sim...

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The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School