Racial discrimination among Hispanics in the United States is on the rise along with stricter immigration laws‚ inadequate education for ESL classes‚ as well as they are prey to healthcare disparities. Data shows that many states in the United States are implementing tougher immigration laws for their individual states. Also‚ due to education cuts and kick-backs‚ English as a second language classes are becoming fewer in many school districts. Finally‚ health care disparities among Hispanics are
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The Great Depression and It’s Effects on General Society The Depression of the 1930’s was a very hard time for the middle and lower classes in America. Due to the depression‚ both classes had to struggle to survive and give up many of their favorite pastimes due to lack of monetary funds. Blacks had to give up low paying jobs to upper class white males who had lost their higher paying jobs. Mexican workers were sent out of the country. Many people‚ especially farmers‚ were evicted from their houses
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In the states of the former Confederacy‚ despite all the calls for a New South in the years after Reconstruction‚ tensions continued to center upon the relations between blacks and whites. Throughout the late 19th century‚ 4‚743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Most of these people that were lynched were black. Was lynching necessary? To many people it was not‚ but to the whites in the late 19th century it served a purpose. Whites started lynching because they felt it was necessary
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After the war and during the early 1930’s there were four leading causes of death: heart disease‚ cancer‚ pneumonia‚ and infectious and parasitic diseases including influenza and syphilis. One every twenty Americans were too sick for work or school usually taking approximately ten days for a full recovery‚ however‚ people began taking vitamins‚ insulin‚ and other nutrients which helped create a longer lifespan for the average American. Even with these factors to consider‚ the biggest issue was a
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African Americans Then and Now Lakrisha Williams HIS 204 American History 1865 Instructor: Jason Williams February 14‚ 2013 African Americans Then and Now “If I had a thousand tongues and each tongue were a thousand thunderbolts and each thunderbolt had a thousand voices‚ I would use them all today to help you understand a loyal and misrepresented and misjudged people.” (Joseph C. Price) African American history has been around for decades‚ the sufferings of these people were brought to this country
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Americans; however‚ the situation of blacks has changed‚ though largely formal.
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Australian assimilation policies of the 1930 ’s. The following statement‚ "The assimilation policies of the 1930 ’s had a devastating effect on the Indigenous community‚ which is still being felt today. While promoted as protection for the Aboriginal children‚ the policy actually aimed at wiping out the Aboriginal race"‚ is incorrect and unsupported. It was not the actual assimilation policies that caused the devastating effects on the Aboriginal communities but the influence of the White Settlers
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The 1930’s was filled with many interesting and knowledgeable events that marks our history that we see we see it today. Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs became the biggest grossing film in the 1930’s. Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Fair Labor Standards Act that raises the minimum wage from 25 cents to 40 cents an hour and limits the work week to 44 hours. A New York Scientist predicts that the United States will reach the moon by 2050. At the end of the decade the United States entered the Second
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Did life improve for black Americans between 1930-2000? Life for black Americans were difficult in 1930’s where they faced discrimination an early example is The Ku Klux Klan founded at the end of civil war was a racist organisation which believed in white supremacy. They were dressed in white robes and white hoods to show white supremacy as well as to conceal their identity. The members were White‚ Anglo-Saxon‚ and Protestants also known as WASPS. This showed how black Americans were looked down
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There were many major proponents of economic justice in the 1930’s. During the mid-1930’s‚ the assembly of millions of workers in mass-production industries had succeeded in resisting unionization. What came as a great surprise to many Americans was the way the federal government now seemed to be on the side of labor. The National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act granted worker’s the legal right to form unions. However‚ American factories at the beginning of the New Deal were small dictatorships
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