Police brutality is a very real, and very unethical situation that happens too much in our community. ... Police brutality is the most relevant topic in Letter from Birmingham Jail today, it has remained a very constant issue over the past fifty-two years. According to an analysis published by The Guardian in May of 2015, they found that 23% of black people that were killed by police were unarmed, compared to 15% of white people, and 25% of Hispanic and Latino people. In Birmingham, the police force used violence to stop the nonviolent protesters; they would sic their K9 units on the protesto...

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Police serve as the interface between the power of the state and the citizens it governs. ... Police also harassed anyone that attempted to help "The Hurricane" with his case. ... Due to the time period they were in it was a lot of police brutality. ... Police shouldn't falsely accuse someone of something because of their race. The behavior that was shown by the police was not good at all. ...

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For example, the big discussion in America right now is the police brutality against African American young men. This recently erupted in Ferguson, Missouri where people put on riots to show their anger against police targeting African American males. The problem is that the African American population is underrepresented in the police force with ninety four percent of them being white while sixty three percent of the town is black (Stewart). ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. Even at this country's birth, its Founding Fathers incorporated the Three-Fifths Compromise, ending a dispute over slaves" votes, into the United States" very Const...

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Racism affects Bigger's life at home, at the Daltons, and in police custody. ... Wright portrays Bigger's brutality in such gory detail, as this quote shows, that the reader may well feel that he is trying to turn you against him. ...

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In America, the Court ruled that, "segregation laws have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of state legislatures in the exercise of their police power" (853). ... Wells, who wrote The "Anti-Lynching Campaign", had much to say about the brutality being placed among the black race. ...

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When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I've never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

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