Callie Gordon March 17‚ 2013 A.N. Pritzker 301 GAUTREAUX: THE LAWSUITS THAT CHANGED CHICAGO HISTORY What The Gautreaux lawsuits were the first major public housing desegregation lawsuits. They helped end racial discrimination in public housing in Chicago‚ which resulted with better job options for adults and improved lives for children who moved out of black ghettos. They influenced public housing desegregation throughout the United States. The Problem
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Task Semester 2‚ 2012 DUE DATE: Week 5 (week commencing Monday 13 August 2012) To be handed to your tutor in your week 5 tutorial class Word limit: maximum 1000 words This is assignment is worth 15 marks TASKS: 1. FIND the following case: Novakovic v Stekovic [20120] NSWCA 54 Area of Law: Tort Law (Duty of Care/Negligence) 2. (a) Please provide a response for each of the following. Case reference: (1 mark) • What is the full case citation? (b) The parties: (1 mark) • • • (c) What are the names
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Segregation has been a very controversial topic in American history‚ particularly in education. Many people overlook segregation in schools‚ but they need to stop. School segregation is a very important topic. In some schools‚ white people don’t want to be educated along with black people. This makes the black children have to go to poorer underdeveloped schools. Nikole Hannah–Jones wrote the article‚ School Segregation‚ the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson. In this article she talks about desegregating
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provision was made for educating the county’s black children. Some got schooling with relatives in nearby communities or at makeshift schools in church basements. Not until 1964‚ when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed Virginia’s tuition grants to private education‚ reopening Prince Edward County public schools on an integrated basis. This event marked the real end of
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that if enough people refused to cooperate with the federal court order‚ it could not be enforced. Some fired school employees who showed willingness to seek integration‚ they closed public schools rather than desegregate‚ and boycotted all public education that was integrated. In the Spring of 1960‚ New Orleans was finally forced to desegregate and Ruby Bridges‚ as well as other black kindergartners‚ took a test. That following summer‚ Ruby’s parents found out that she passed the test and had been
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Consent Decree – Identification and Assessment One important court ruling regarding bilingual education was the case of Lau vs. Nichols‚ in early 1970. Although the court ruled children’s Fourteenth Amendment (Equal Protection) was violated‚ accountability wasn’t established. The 1990 Consent Decree addressed this issue by outlining ESOL teacher training requirements‚ as well as needs of ESOL students needing to be addressed by school districts. Before the Florida Consent Decree‚ there
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The main issue that was highlighted by the PBS Front Line documentary "Separate and Unequal"‚ was that many Americans are reverting to segregation of black people and white people in the public school system. The city of Baton Rouge was facing a problem in which some of the richer and whiter parents are determined to make a new schooling district for their children. This new schooling district would create problems because they are making white children have a separate learning environment than other
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during the whole civil rights era cause they had experienced the harassment and the denial of a better education during those times. Now as you soon will read segregation wasn’t just in the south towards blacks and white‚ us Hispanics suffered as well. So it will be an interesting
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What were the legal issues in this case? In the case of Dunlap VS Tennessee Valley Authority‚ the legal issue that was presented was discrimination‚ disparate treatment and disparate impact. According to the EEOC‚ race discrimination involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race (such as hair texture‚ skin color‚ or certain facial features). Color discrimination involves treating someone
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Many of us are all familiar with the Brown vs. Board of Education case. We are all aware of many notable yet controversial highlights of history‚ yet‚ if you asked me my knowledge of social justice within my community‚ I could provide to you generalized details of the division of blacks and whites. Social justice should include the awareness of our community’s efforts and fight‚ thus I was very curious towards the social injustices that impacted our very own Lexington-Louisville Area. With this idea
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