“Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 after many years of protests and increasingly violent acts against African Americans. The Act made it a federal crime to deny a citizen the right to vote. It outlawed a number of tricks and schemes used for decades to disenfranchise African Americans.” “From the 1860s to the 1960s‚ African Americans routinely were denied the right to vote. This occurred mainly in the south‚ in the former Confederate states. But elsewhere‚ other minorities also suffered
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law passed that primarily gave African Americans the right to vote without having to take any sort of literacy tests. African Americans were widely ignored in voting rights because they were forced to take literacy tests to be eligible to vote. Having this event in our nation’s civil rights movement was a landmark that allowed the other half of our nation’s voice to be heard. “The Voting Rights Act itself has been called the single most effective piece of civil rights
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the case for replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) is the single most effective piece of legislation‚ passed in the United Kingdom‚ which enforced the principles set out in European Convention on Human Rights in British domestic courts. A brief history as to the enactment of such a profound piece of legislation will help us understand the importance of the Human Rights Act 1998‚ and reasons the current coalition
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IDEA 2004 IDEA 2004 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) was created so that any student with any type of physical or mental disabilities would receive an equal opportunity for a better education. I feel that IDEA 2004 has satisfied its purpose. Idea 2004 has implemented special education teachers to teach the students with disabilities. Since the first time that the act was created‚ it has been modified several times. Each time implementing special elements that aid mentally challenged
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Americans with Disabilities Act Assignment 1 (20 points) Private businesses and non-profits that serve the public‚ called places of public accommodation by the ADA‚ and commercial facilities (other businesses) are required to make their facilities accessible to people with disabilities and must not discriminate based on disability. Some examples of places of public accommodation include: restaurants‚ hotels‚ theaters‚ doctors’ offices‚ pharmacies‚ retail stores‚ museums‚ libraries‚ parks‚ private
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In 1947‚ President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights issued “To Secure These Rights.” The text emphasizes the government’s responsibility to protect Black people amid unfair treatment regarding employment‚ housing‚ and voting‚ while drawing on the morality of Americans to stand for the freedom that the nation claimed to uphold. The statement recognized that the federal government should interfere in instances of “serious wrongs” —discriminatory housing policies to lynchings—committed by private
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could include: Equality Act‚ Human Rights Act‚ Inclusion policy. The Equalities Act (2010) This act is a combination of many old acts (race relations‚ sex discrimination and disability discrimination etc.) its two main purposes – to harmonise discrimination law and to strengthen the law to support the progress on equality. It is the most significant development in equality and discrimination for years. It sets out that everyone regardless of race‚ sex‚ religion or disability is entitled to fair
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establishment of school wide anti-bullying policies. In recent years the federal government has implemented the National Safe Schools Framework and the Civil Liability Act of 2002‚ to assist educators with diminishing schoolyard bullying (Campbell 64). Since the development and rise of technological resources‚ cyber-bullying has expanded the opportunity for the act of bullying to take place; bullying is no longer isolated face to face. Students’ abilities of escaping to a safe haven‚ away from their harasser
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The American Civil War In 1860‚ arguably the world’s greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North (Union) and South (Confederate). The war lasted five years and by 1865 the Confederate forces were truly beaten. Out of this horrendous war though‚ where some 600‚000 men died grew a greater sense of nationalism than is today‚ unrivalled around the world. Slavery was a major issue that triggered the American Civil War. Slavery started out‚ as a few individual
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Pendleton Civil Service Act Since the beginning of the government‚ people gained and lost their jobs whenever a new president took office. These jobs were political pay-offs for people who supported them. Many people did not take their jobs too seriously because they knew they would be out of their office soon. As Henry Clay put it‚ government officials after an election are "like the inhabitants of Cairo when the plague breaks out; no one knows who is next to encounter the stroke of death."
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