Constitution passed in the houses of Congress. The amendment said that '[no] State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws'." (Gonzales) Later on through the 60s, the southern states passed laws known as "The Jim Crow Laws" which meant "separate but equal." ... It was used to persuade congress to pass the civil rights bill th...

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Constitution were passed. ... Also Poll taxes were passed. ... The public schools were funded by property taxes. Since few blacks actually owned property, and that which was owned by blacks was of little value, the schools in black neighborhoods were always of lower quality than those in white neighborhoods. ... Later in 1968 President Johnson got a bill passed that ended discrimination in housing. ...

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Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was known as one of the most influential African Americans of his time. He was born a slave on April 5, 1856 of an unknown white man and a slave mother. He attended school briefly, but mainly worked as a young boy. He entered Hampton Normal and Agricul...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... Whites saw emancipation as the reason for loss of the nation's largest concentration of private property." (Current, pg.88) Planters went from owning blacks as property, to negotiating a wage in exchange for their labor. ...

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This was called sharecropping, which is when most blacks could not afford their own land so they kept part of their crop and gave the rest to the landowner while living on his property (Norton. ... They began to pass local and state laws that particularized certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." ... But the requirements included: the ability to read and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had little access to education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to obtain; and paying a poll tax, which was too great a responsibility on most Southern blac...

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I had never been passed State and Madison or Western and 65th street. ... We were in some sense at peace with what we had because we felt it could have been worse, we could be house salves being sold as property again. ... Our teachers would have to copy pages from books and pass out to the students because sometime they did not have enough books or we would have to share a book with another student in your class. ...

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Forty thousand pamphlets were printed and passed out among the members of the black community. ... For an African American to be able to register to vote they needed to pass a registration test to prove that they were able to comprehend how to vote. ...

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One of the amazing facts of being an American is that no person should be denied the right to own land or property , because as stated in The Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with certain rights like life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... That's a luxury that Americans get when we turn 16 and they fight for the freedoms all American women gained when congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution on June 4, 1919. ...

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President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at the week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1700 arrested, and property damage well over $100 million. ...

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It also barred any state from taking a persons life, liberty, and property without due process of law and from denying equal protection of laws. When these amendments were passed I think it gave many blacks the courage to express themselves and stand up for what they believe in. ... In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ...

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Eventually Chopin revealed that Armand was the one that carried the black genes that were passed on to the child, but because Desiree was constrained by the restrictions of her sex, she was blamed for the "unconscious injury she had brought upon Armand's home and his name" (Chopin). ... In conclusion, Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" showed me that during that era women were treated as property. ...

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There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also ...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if the...

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Wells passed away after a lifetime of crusading for justice, but not after her prolific actions reflected her attitude of "selling her life as dearly as possible." ... Stereotypes and subconscious responses to African-Americans have been around since slavery, passed down from generation to generation - or, in a sense, "written down in history with bitter, twisted lies." ...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

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