... looks at the average statistics of minority students and sees that the test scores are incredibly low along with their GPA's. Then he views himself and realizes that his 1100 SAT score and 3.6 GPA has some type of meaning and "pull" in this college thing. He is also attending a predominantly white all-male school and taking college level classes. Due to Affirmative ... and California have already made Affirmative Action illegal. The following statistics are from two very elite universities of California campuses, Berkeley, and UCLA. AT Berkeley, the number of black freshmen declined 57%...

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... included in the 1995 report said that the average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an average SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African American student was 3.66 with a 1030 average SAT score. These stunning facts shows just how many competent, if not gifted students fall between the cracks as a direct result of affirmative ... ...

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... /or characteristics. Minority students are given 20 points just for the fact that they"re a minority. So when Barbara Gutter applied for admissions she started with a score of zero points and a Hispanic student started with a score of 20 points. Honorable Dean Brady, I am very pleased that the University of Missouri, Columbia does not adhere to this procedure. The points system for admissions ... that the points system for admissions is unjustly rewarding. How can it be justly rewarding when underrepresented minorities receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation scor...

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... schools are currently recruiting students according to race and color. According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average ... SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they ... an education is, he will not study as hard as s...

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... , his mother, Mallie Robinson, moved them to California in search of work. Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College and the University of California at 3 Los Angeles (UCLA). He acquired outstanding athletic ability and became the first UCLA student athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: football, basketball, baseball, and track. In 1941, Robinson left college to join the United States Army. While ... the Brooklyn team becoming the first black to play major league baseball in the 20th century. In 1947, Robinson married his college sweetheart, Rachel Isum, a nursing student he met...

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... that Jackie's father left and they had no money. When Jackie got a little bit older in 1939, Jackie starred on the football, baseball, basketball and track team at UCLA. After he graduated from UCLA he served in the US Army from 1942-1944. When he left the Army, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League in 1945. In ... ...

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... tournament and by doing so he was breaking down social barriers at the same time. His outstanding play wasn't unnoticed as he received a scholarship to play at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles). At UCLA, Ashe's talent was recognized by the nation, as he won the intercollegiate singles title, intercollegiate doubles title and the NCAA men's single championship. After graduating college ... ...

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... other areas of the town. One newspaper article said, " After six hours of race rioting, extending over the entire city, two white men are known to be dead and about a score are known to be injured. There are no known negro fatalities, though reports are that several were killed. One injured negro is at the police station and is expected momentarily ... of different races. Work Cited "Archaeologists to search for mass graves from 1921 Tulsa riot". CNN. 1 Feb. 2001 . "Black Tulsa Businessman has been Cleared." New York Times 26 Oct. 1996, Sat. ed. 2 Feb. 2001 Blakey, Ellen Sue, et al. Tul...

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... out from light or air, and this when the thermometer was incredible high. The slaves were all inclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and were stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". Sometimes ... of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last agonies; many were already dead. If almost half of the cargo arrived alive, it was a good score for the white people. We have to consider that frequently half of the wh...

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... had a harsh childhood and his love for sports came from 2 of his older brothers. At a young age. Early Career In addition, Jackie Robinson early career he was a star player at UCLA and was in the ARMY. Even though it was uncommon for dark skin people to do sports Jackie was one of the best. Robinson was a star football, baseball, basketball player ... ...

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... two, to the extent that she moved to Los Angeles to work with them. Once in Los Angeles she would become a member of the Communist Party. She began working at UCLA in 1969 and became a very popular. She was however fired due to her involvement with the Communist Party and Black Panther Party. Her firing was personally requested by the then ... ...

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... baseball at Pasadena Junior College. Robinson was an amazing player. After finishing his junior college career, Robinson was offered a scholarship to play for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). From there, Robinson went on to play in the Negro Leagues. Robinson played with players such as Josh Gibson, Sam Bankhead, and Satchel Paige. Robinson stood head and shoulders above ... ...

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... turn to athletics to solve his academic and home problems. A natural athlete, Robinson played football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at Pasadena Community College. He then went on to UCLA, (University of California, Los Taylor, 2 Angeles), where he again excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track. After college, he was drafted in the Army and served in World War II ... ...

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... Major League Baseball's color barrier that segregated major league baseball for many decades. Robinson excelled early at all sports and learned to make his own way in life. While at UCLA, Jackie Robinson became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track. In 1941, he was named to the All-American football team. Robinson ... ...

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... Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." The one little thing that started the Civil Rights Movement was when Parks sat at the front of the bus. The reason she sat there was because she had a long day at work and was tired so she just sat more towards the front of the bus then she was supposed to. A white man asked her to get ... . On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled segregation laws unconstitutional. The next day Parks and some other black people sat up in the front of the bus. Rosa Parks just wanted to end the segregation between blacks and whites. She sat at the front of the bus a...

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... in Greensboro, N.C. along with other stores and restaurants in the neighborhood refused to serve and seat African American customers at their lunch counters. On February 1, 1960, four African American students sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter and politely requested service. The four men were refused service. After being asked to leave they remained in their seats. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil ... heightened the awareness of many African Americans on racial injustice and led to the desegregation of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter on July 25, 1960. Three well-dressed African Am...

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... Angelou gave details on how everyone was out their seats to see if their "trophy" would get back up off the ropes. She describes how everyone around her sat on the edge of their seats the entire time, especially when Joe Louis got on the ropes. She also gave images of them not breathing. Reading this autobiography Angelou makes ... around her. She shows readers how everyone was nervous and silent as the fight went on but yet they were confident too. She told her reader how all the Negroes sat sweating and praying while the fight went on. She talked about the black sky that was streaked ...

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... the "sit-ins". "On Feb. 1, 1960, four black students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr., sat down at the counter of a Woolworth's and asked to be served" (Douglass). They knew they wouldn't be, because the lunch counter at which they ... sat was for whites only. Still, they continued to sit and didn't want to get up until they were forced to get out. The next day, a bigger group of students showed ... ...

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... King. He fought for what is right. He saw that there was so much evil, pain, and suffering in his time from all the racism that was going on. He sat there and watched as African American people were mistreated. He saw his people get beaten, killed, enslaved, and segregated from all things that whites were able to do. The African ... , boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On that bus on that day, Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality. She sat near the front of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Although she was ...

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... the highly disputed war in Vietnam. On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while standing up but not while they were sitting at the lunch counter ... . The students quietly sat there politely asking for service until closing time. The next morning they showed up again accompanied by twenty five fellow students. By the next week their sit down had been ... ...

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... days, the boycott was over. The fours students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College had the right idea of how to shape the modern Civil Rights Movement, when they sat down at the counter of a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960. When Joseph McNeill, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, and Franklin McCain ... sat down at the counter and tried to order, the reply was "I"m sorry, we don't serve you here."3 Instead of getting up and leaving, the four boys decided to sit at ... ...

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... as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the driver had told her to do. Or maybe on the day in 1949 when a black college professor absentmindedly sat at the front of a nearly empty bus, then ran off in tears when the bus driver screamed at her for doing so. Or the seeds could have been planted on ... the Highlander Folk School in neighboring Monteagle, Tennessee. She was a well-respected woman within her community who had a spotless record. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat with three other blacks in the fifth row, the first row that blacks c...

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... a Thursday, December 1, 1955 when a forty-two years old black woman, named Rosa Parks boarded into a city bus after finishing work as a tailor's assistant at the Montgomery Fair department store. She sat in the middle section of the bus because the first four rows of the bus are forbidden for the blacks, and only white passengers would have the privilege to sit ... door. At that time it was an established rule for the blacks to give up their seats to the whites if whites were left standing and even if a row is sat by blacks, they would have to clear the row to let the whites sit even if...

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... of this. Even when Bud is in the court house being accused of painting a mural on a wall the colored and uncolored people were separated. Colored people sat on the top balcony while the uncolored, people sat on the bottom row. Even hate crimes were committed on the colored people of Pleasantville. Shops were vandalized, people were mocked and even Bud's mom was ... ...

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... back seats. There were separate restrooms, drinking fountains, stores and, of course, schools. Segregation remained the same for many years until one day in 1955 a black woman named Rosa Parks sat down in the front of a bus where all of the white people were sitting. When she was told to move to the back of the bus, she refused to budge ... are understandably magnified. At Rutgers University in February, the school was racked with controversy. The president of Rutgers, Francis L. Lawrence, was caught saying that black students do worse on the SAT tests because they are genetically infer...

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