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- 111: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- ... in America so that they understand why racism started. The most talented of the youth should be educated to be leaders. Some people seem to think that the fight against segregation consists merely of one damned protest after another. That the technique is to protest and wail and protest again, and to keep this thing up until the gates of the public opinion are opened and the walls of segregation fall down. (Paschal 144). A lot of blacks suffered in the 1930's during the affects of the Great Depression. At the time DuBois was bringing blacks together in what was called " voluntary segregation", that is, blacks making up their own organizations and working together. Only at that time he said that if they would be free of dependence on interference from whites. ...
- 112: Brown vs. Board of Education
- ... again approximately 1 year later. The court decided that they would decided not based on whether the framers intended the 14th amendment to involve desegregation, but weather or not that segregation in public schools deprived African American students of equality in education according to the current law. They had come to a unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. The decision of the court as said by Chief Justice Earl Warren, “We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group ... no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.” The Supreme Court’s decision that separate but equal is not equal began the ...
- 113: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, slightly more than a year when the city's small group of civil rights advocates decided to contest racial segregation on the public buses. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks had refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and had been arrested for violating the city's segregation law. Black activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to boycott the transit system and choose King as their leader. He had the advantage of being a young, well-trained man ... His thesis was soon tested as he agreed to support the sit-in demonstrations undertaken by local college students. In late October he was arrested with 33 young people protesting segregation at the lunch counter in an Atlanta department store. Charges were dropped, but King was sentenced to Reidsville State Prison Farm on the pretext that he had violated his ...
- 114: Civil Rights 2
- ... The older black people wanted the same rights as the white people had, but many of these people were brought up thinking they could not change their status. To them segregation was the way they were supposed to live their lives. Another reason why younger people joined the civil rights movement was because they did not have as much to lose ... not always help black people achieve their rights. The first major break for civil rights came in the Supreme Court case Brown versus the Board of Education. The ruling that segregation was unconstitutional seemed like a major break through for the black community. The only problem with this decision, was that Chief Justice Marshall said that desegregation should happen “with all ... Washington, D.C. These marches were held to try to get the government to hear them, but the government ignored them. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed ending segregation. It also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that prevented discrimination in the workplace. Anne Moody was very optimistic about the desegregation cases. She always tested the Supreme Court ...
- 115: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- ... from two to 250, black physicians increased from three to 749 (Curry 117). All these accomplishments were achieved under the Jim Crow laws (laws, practices or institutions that resulted from segregation of blacks from whites) which demonstrate the power and potential of perseverance. The people from this exemplary generation have proven that even with limitations and no special treatment they can ... from two to 250, black physicians increased from three to 749 (Curry 117). All these accomplishments were achieved under the Jim Crow laws (laws, practices or institutions that resulted from segregation of blacks from whites) which demonstrate the power and potential of perseverance. The people from this exemplary generation have proven that even with limitations and no special treatment they can ...
- 116: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... with the friction of Japan. He was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This was a great accomplishment for Teddy Roosevelt. Relations with Japan became strained after segregation problems occurred in San Francisco came about. Roosevelt, afraid of a possible attack on Philippines persuaded San Francisco schools to end the segregation of Japanese-Americans. This helped end the tension. He also negotiated a gentleman's agreement with Japan to keep Japanese laborers from coming into United States. Then in 1908 Japan ...
- 117: Indian Affairs
- ... and the political machines that tried and did achieve to influence government policy. The Jim Crow laws were laws that were aimed at prohibiting black vote, and also created legal segregation of the blacks from public facilities such as schools, universities and housing. Along with these harsh and discriminatory laws, came terror and violence in order to reinforce the laws. In ... 1882 49 blacks were lynched in the South, ten years later there were 161 victims of the white mob. During this period racism and hatred is clearly apparent and racial segregation had become an accepted way of life. Another problem during this period were the Political Machines. These machines ran parallel to the legal city governments, and at many times almost ...
- 118: Racism - The Future
- ... to hide it or say that we resolved it forty-to-fifty years ago. Racism is still all over the place. Racism first showed it teeth in America, when the segregation of blacks and whites came along. The segregation shut down all activities or actions from whites and blacks. It absolutely separated whites and blacks from being close to each other in public and blacks having no rights. Then ...
- 119: Important African American Figures
- ... victory came with Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan. in which the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" policy that was used to justify public school segregation. He also won cases against poll taxes, racial restrictions in housing and whites-only primary elections. He was the judge of the U.S. court of appeals for second circuit ... strong and independent abolitionist. While in Rochester, Douglass directed the city's branch of the "Underground Railroad," which smuggled escaped slaves into Canada. For years he worked to end racial segregation in Rochester's public schools. Douglass hoped that blacks would no longer be employed only as servants and laborers. He proposed that schools be established to train them to become ...
- 120: Feminine Mystique
- ... who had been laid off managed to return to work, they often lost their seniority and had to accept reduced pay in lower job categories” (310). Due to the severe segregation by gender, the postwar economic life for women was appalling. Postwar American life became organized around marriage and family. As men came back from the war they merged with the ... generation to generation.” As many have said before “history repeats itself” with WWII as well as WWI, the return of peace meant that “women faced layoffs, renewed wage discrimination, and segregation into female-only jobs” (307). The media of the 50’s and 60’s continued to portray women as housewives and mothers. The media has always influenced people’s ideas ...
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