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    set up 40 hospitals‚ 4‚000 schools‚ 61 industrial institutes‚ and 74 teacher-training centers. Civil Rights Act of 1866 Two months later‚ Congress passed the Civil Rights Act‚ which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws- black codes- that severely restricted African American’s lives. Johnson vetoed both the Freedman’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Acts of 1866‚ shocking everyone‚ he alienated the modern Republicans who were trying to improve his

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    “In 1857‚ the highest court in the United States held that blacks in America possessed no rights‚ could never become citizens of the United States‚ and that Congress was powerless to abolish slavery.” (Kaczorowski‚ p. 45) Was this true? Could slavery really never be abolished? In his article “To Begin the Nation Anew: Congress‚ Citizenship‚ and Civil Rights after the Civil War”‚ Robert J. Kaczorowski shows the process of the abolishing of slavery in the United States. Kaczorowski discussed the

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    Utopian communities[edit] New Harmony as envisioned by Owen Utopian socialism was the US’s first Socialist movement. Utopians attempted to develop model socialist societies to demonstrate the virtues of their brand of beliefs. Most Utopian socialist ideas originated in Europe‚ but the US was most often the site for the experiments themselves. Many Utopian experiments occurred in the 19th century as part of this movement‚ including Brook Farm‚ the New Harmony‚ the Shakers‚ the Amana Colonies

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    required for voting‚ the educational facilities offered to young people‚ the treatment of those accused of crimes within the state. The historical context of the campaigns for Civil Rights Slavery began in the seventeenth century as a mechanism for dealing with labour shortages in the colonies. A main cause of the Civil War (1861 – 65) was the disagreement about the extension of slavery to the new states that were joining the Union at the rate of one every two years in the early and mid nineteenth

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    The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of Liberalism The emergence of the civil rights movement after World War II was one of the most important events in US history. It forced white Americans to recognize the systematic discrimination that affected African Americans and other non-whites. And it shattered the postwar consensus and sparked a revival of liberal reform. These reforms included landmark civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination and restored the voting rights

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    obtained. They did not want to be treated unfairly anymore. Equality is all that was desired. “We’ll walk hand in hand some day‚” shows how once African Americans obtained freedom‚ they achieved happiness. They ultimately did this through the Civil Rights Movement. The clothing of the general man or women changed and led them to express themselves a little more. Men started wearing penny loafers without socks‚ had crew cuts and very rarely had long hair (Kostley). “My friends dressed more preppy

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    substantively to two other learners Laws to choose from in answering the discussion question: a. employment-at-will b. Fair Labor Standards Act c. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 d. EEOC Regulations concerning sexual harassment e. Age Discrimination in Employment Act f. Americans with Disabilities Act g. Family and Medical Leave Act Governmental activities to choose from in answering the discussion question: a. Social Security premiums b. Social Security disability

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    substantively to two other learners Laws to choose from in answering the discussion question: a. employment-at-will b. Fair Labor Standards Act c. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 d. EEOC Regulations concerning sexual harassment e. Age Discrimination in Employment Act f. Americans with Disabilities Act g. Family and Medical Leave Act Governmental activities to choose from in answering the discussion question: a. Social Security premiums b. Social Security disability

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    discrimination. Reading threw the company police provided on the company website nothing was mentioned of sexual harassment or discrimination. Providing you with Facts and evidence you can be the judge of it. EMC violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the following actions: Insinuations that a person’s employment‚ wages‚ academic grade‚ promotional opportunities work assignments‚ or other conditions of employment may be adversely affected by not submitting to sexual advances for

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    During the Reconstruction period of 1865 1877‚ federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s‚ Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures‚ sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents‚ attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years‚ with extreme violence unleashed during

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