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- 11: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil Rights Movement, individuals and organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. Many believed that the movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights act of 1965. However, there has been debate about ...
- 12: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- ... 1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King ... first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, a church with a well-educated congregation that had recently been led by a minister who had protested against segregation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery s black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Many white bus drivers treated blacks rudely, often cursing them and humiliating them by enforcing the city s segregation laws, which forced black riders to sit in the back of buses and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses. By the early 1950s Montgomery s ...
- 13: Intelligence
- The increasingly difficult life for low IQ people is not caused by high IQ people, but by other factors. Segregation and tension occur across IQ lines by the nature of humanity and not by the implications of high IQ people. Let's face it, life is tough for everyone regardless ... United States government making a low IQ person's life more difficult by failing to provide opportunities that will result in equal results for all citizens? In all honesty, social segregation across IQ lines does indeed exist. There are no declared rules or laws to enforce this segregation and there exist many, many exceptions. Yet, the fact still remains that people with similar interests tend to form social groups. It seems to me that in general, bright ...
- 14: Arguments On Desegregation
- ... 1954 by five separate court cases, ultimately joined together and called Brown v. The Board of Education. Though each case was different, they all revolved around the main argument that segregation itself violated the "equal protection under the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and had detrimental psychological effects on Negroes. Segregation was almost always initiated by whites, and initiated on the basis that blacks were inferior and undesirable. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. When ... school, the effect on their personalities was perpetually worse than any problem they might encounter in an integrated school. This element became a prominent part of the legal case against segregation (Stephan 9). The biggest argument against desegregation was the perception that blacks were not as intelligent as whites. Since the Fourteenth Amendment did not guarantee the right to a ...
- 15: Institutions That Facilitate Economic Segregation
- Institutions That Facilitate Economic Segregation Are the 35 million Americans who fall below the poverty line there because they are lazy and have let all opportunities for social advancement pass them by? Or is there ...
- 16: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... help us understand social problems in America and in the world.(Charon, p.215) Charon says that symbolic interactionism offers a fresh approach to understanding problems like racial inequality, racial segregation, racial conflict, racism, sexism, and poverty in the United States.(p.215) People interaction with one another form society, communicating, role taking, and cooperating to make society work. Charon says ... has developed a segregated society- thus, in a basic sense it is not one society, but several”... based on our history of slavery, exploitation, racist institutions, legal and de facto segregation.(p.216) I believe that this segregation can be applied to those in Appalachia, who have been exploited and treated as a distinctive culture. Charon gives six effects of segregation in a society, which I will ...
- 17: The Evolution Of Inequality In
- ... effectively to exclude blacks from the vote but assured the franchise to many impoverished and illiterate whites" ("Grandfather Clause"). Jim Crow Laws were "any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South between the end (1877) of the formal Reconstruction period and the beginning of a strong civil-rights movement (1950s)" ("Jim Crow Laws"). Thus, Jim Crow ... statute set by Plessy v. Ferguson, in 1896, of "separate, but equal" (USSC, "Plessy"). With the topic of Plessy v. Ferguson being brought into the situation, one must look at segregation in America as a means of the system reaffirming inequality. "In the Southern states of the United States…legal segregation in public facilities was current from the late 19th century into the 1950s" ("racial segregation"). Legal segregation in America established the fact that there was inherent inequality in the ...
- 18: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... didn't have equal opportunity. An economic failure of the movement is the amount of poor blacks that still exist. The children which are products of this particular type of segregation live in a poor neighborhood, go to a poor school, receive an inadequate education or drop-out so they then can only receive a bad job or no job at ... as much money, and the education they received was often inferior to that of the whites. One social failure of the civil rights movement that still exists today is Defacto segregation. That is segregation that exists, but is not required by law. It was originally caused when poor blacks moved into the urban areas, and the whites fled to the suburbs, or richer ...
- 19: Sex Discrimination
- ... primary and 80% secondary school heads are men. This is the same right the way across the specturm, in university only 5% of professors are women (Pascall 1995: 3). This segregation of gender in different jobs can be separated into two dimensions, vertical and horizontal. Vertical segregation is the segregation of gender in the hierarchy of power in a certain job. Woman tend to be found at the low end of vertical segregation in professional occupations. Horizontal segregation is ...
- 20: Unwritten Rules
- ... subordinate to the majority. Cullen and Soyinka both reveal how black people were put down during this time period. In this time period during which "Incidents and Telephone Conversation" occur, segregation of black people and white people was the social norm. In the majority of public places black and white people were forced to use separate facilities, among other things. Segregation was common in restaurants, schools, and businesses. "Segregation was the rule in public accommodations, health care, housing, schooling, work, the legal system, and interpersonal relations (Jaynes and Williams 58). In "Incident", a white child sticks his tongue ...
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