... for children accused of wrongdoing inevitably caused situations in which kids were locked into detention facilities with no access to a lawyer or other advocate. On June 8, 1964, a 15-year-old boy named Gerald Gault and a friend made a series of crank phone calls to a neighbor woman in Gila County, Arizona, asking "Are your cherries ripe today?'' and "Do you have big ... 's constitutional rights to due process. Three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gerald's favor in the landmark In Re Gault case. "Under our Constitution the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaro...

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... should be based on the availability of qualified minorities and woman for each job. Currently the US population is 77.9% white and 12.9 % black, yet the unemployment rate is 5.1 for whites, while its 10.7 for blacks. Statistically, if affirmative action is ever successful, 80% of the company would ... be white, 13 % black, and 7% other minorities. Since the male/female split in the US is currently 50%, then half of them should be woman. The woman unemployment rate ... the way to solve the race problem in this country is to improve the qualifications of African Americans through training ...

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