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    as the Marriott‚ respect the Civil Rights Act which first passed in 1964. the. Marriott adheres in prohibiting the discrimination act on the basis of race‚ national origin‚ color‚ gender‚ or religion. In 1991‚ the act was amended again and now provides solutions for the complaining party to recover punitive

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    Rights To Education Rights to Edcuation The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world‚ teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history‚ so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education‚ he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world. A well educated man is a more dependable

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    Civil Rights Moments Diary Antonette Brown HIS/145 March 21st‚2012 Amy Champ February 21‚ 1965 Dear Diary‚ This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm‚ he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm

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    The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968‚ particularly in the South. The leadership was African-American‚ and much of the political and financial support

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    TIMELINE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND NEW LEFT MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960’s SS310-07Exploring the 1960s: An Interdisciplinary Approach November 30‚ 2009 | | | | |1960 |[pic] |On February 1‚ 1960 four black students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro‚ NC sat in | |

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    How far do you agree that opposition to the civil rights movement did more to help the movement than to hinder it? Overall‚ opposition to the civil rights movement hindered more than helped the movement between the years 1955-1968. Firstly‚ the FBI used their power to undermine the civil rights movement on many occasions in the 50s and 60s. J. Edgar Hoover‚ who was a dedicated anti-communist set up COINTELPRO (the counter intelligence program) which investigated radical groups. He did this because

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    Discuss whether the Human Rights succeeded in doing what it was designed to do Prior to Human Right Act 1998‚ European Convention Human Rights were not directly applied by the courts and while there were infringements of the rights enshrined in the ECHR an application have to make to the Strasbourg Court when domestic avenues had been exhausted. Therefore‚ Human Right Act 1998 was incorporated in UK in 2000 to bring ECHR rights to the English law and to ensure that the public authorities

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    The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991 were both put into place to protect the rights of individuals who are subjected to unfair treatment. The protection granted by these laws were from the basis of race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex or national origin. This particular law was considered a great achievement by legislature in regards to civil rights‚ however‚ individuals were still being retaliated against for initiating a law suits‚ thus the Civil Right Act of 1991 had to be implemented. The termination

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    Civil Rights or Civil Liberties Civil liberties are more important than civil rights for these reasons. First‚ our lives are better when the government doesn’t interfere. Second‚ civil liberties protects us from our government from causing us harm and last civil liberties makes civil rights possible. Our lives are better when the government doesn’t interfere because government shouldn’t get in the way of people’s daily lives‚ day after day. Let people be. We shouldn’t have to live with the mentally

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    * Human rights act (1998) * Disability discrimination act(1995) * Sex discrimination act (1975) * Protection of children act(1999) * Health and safety at work act (1974) * (COSHH) control of substances hazardous to health regulations(2002) * Data protection act (1998) Human rights act(1998)-human right gives you the right to live to certain freedoms on what you can say and do anyone in uk has to respect theses rules cannot be gone against as its a law. Human right gives you

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