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    Anna Jardot Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Writing Assignment Affirmative action is the practice of improving educational and job opportunities of groups of people who have been treated unfairly in the past due to their race‚ sex‚ etc. In the US the effort was to improve the educational and employment opportunities of women and men of minority. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ affirmative action was designed to counteract the lingering effects of generations of past discrimination

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    Civil Rights "Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external" -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s world is based on appearance‚ and most often the goal is not as important as the means by which it is achieved. Why is this such a ’problem?’ Time after time‚ people come to find that they have wasted their lives working towards a goal which‚ in the end‚ was never worth all that work to begin with‚ or they realize that they could have

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    Lexi Pappacoda 12/5/13 The Civil right movement was a big part of history‚ if it wasn’t for the Civil rights I would not be able to go to school‚ the movies‚ library‚ or do any other things I would do with my friends. Emmitt Tilt’s death was a big part of the movement it really kicked it off‚ when Rosa Parks was told to get up out of her seat and let a white person sit there she refused she got kicked off the bus and arrested as she was being arrested she was saying something

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    Douglass‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Sojourner Truth‚ Our president Abraham Lincoln‚ Jackie Robinson‚ post World War II litigation efforts of Thurgood Marshall‚ and lastly in the language of Martin Luther King Jr ‚ since the Civil War for anything to really change towards human rightscivil rights at that. "The Declaration of Independence has always represented a “declaration of intent rather than of reality‚” the unfulfilled quest for equality will test the nation’s best efforts for generations to come"

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    Civil Peace DBQ In Germany‚ in 1914‚ a civil peace was declared at the time of the proclamation of war. This meant that all previous inner and exterior conflicts would be put to the side until after the war. At the same time that this was declared‚ the troops were being mobilized to fight. German citizens’ opinions changed from being excited during the proclamation of war to ignoring the main effects and law of civil peace during the war‚ and then to being upset and frustrated after the war. I

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    Chapter 5 Review Questions 1. Civil Rights are the government-protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals. The concept of equality got introduced into the constitution. The 14th Amendment‚ one of three Civil war Amendments ratified from 1865 to 1870‚ introduced the notion of equality into the constitution by specifying that a state could not deny “any person within jurisdiction equal protection of the laws.” It is evident in the recent

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    The Civil Right Movement was successful because it ended segregation. First‚ Ruby was born in Tylertown‚Mississippi on September 8th 1954. “Ruby Bridges” was the first African American girl being escorted by United States to attend an all American white school. Tulane University Presented Bridges with honorary degree in 2012. Ruby was born to sharecroppers Aborn and Lucille Bridges.Ruby parents decided to move the family to New Orleans in 1958 when Ruby was 4 years old. Next‚ “Martin Luther

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    During the 1950’s and 1960’s in America‚ there was racial discrimination and segregation‚ which was legalised through the Jim Crow laws. The Civil Rights movement aim was to challenge these laws and achieve legislative change‚ making the ”X” challenging the racist laws and enforcing equal ones. The movement was a ”Sustained upsurge” due to the constant protest and large scale buy in from the African American community‚ which lead to numerous groups forming because of it which sustained the CRM..

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    Civil War DBQ Americans are a democratic society that are driven for success. During the early nineteenth century the Americans were living off the buzz of the constitution and working together to form a functioning government. As Lincoln wisely said later on "A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The issue of slavery was one of such magnitude that division on such an issue would inevitably lead to a war‚ and could not have been avoided by compromise. With the Missouri Compromise

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    Civil Rights Movements in Alabama Segregation was a way of life in the South at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Many people treated others terribly because the color of their skin and went on without it even fazing them‚ they all went on thinking it was okay‚ when it was not morally right. African Americans were treated horribly‚ almost as if they were not human. It was impossible to find any aspect of life unsegregated in the south. The Schools‚ restaurants‚ and even bathrooms were all

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