Early Monday morning, 21st of March 1960, Africans throughout the nation gathered within their towns at the request of Robert Sobukwe, the PAC leader, to protest against the pass laws. The pass laws demanded that every African carry a passport containing information about their employment, criminal record, residential address and areas they are allowed to be in, to name a few. ... "The Commission finds that the police deliberately opened fire on an unarmed crowd that had gathered peacefully at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960 to protest against the pass laws. ... The people of South Africa have sh...

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The government reacted to internal resistance by passing further repressive laws which caused even more resistance to the apartheid system. ... The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. ... As black resistance grew, the National Party Government took harsh repressive action in the form of violence and new laws. In 1960, the Pan-African Congress leaders organized nationwide peaceful demonstrations against 'pass laws' that restricted indi...

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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy, and morality should play in determining the aims of law. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied...

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The Civil Rights campaigns and methods of protest were ideal at this time, because of post war disappointment as Americans were displeased with the governments decisions, therefore it was easier to oppose the governments actions, and accuse them of wrong doing, regarding both National and International relations. ... In the time period of 1956 to 1968 there were international activities, such as African states being independent, attempts to end communism in countries such as Cuba, China, and The Soviet Union. ... Concluding, the methods used for fighting for equality only worked because there ...

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Douglass's abolitionist views were not only contained in America, Douglass also spread his word internationally. Since Douglass had manifested his experiences as a slave in his book and had augmented in popularity, he was afraid the Fugitive Slave Laws in America would penalize him, so Douglass travelled abroad to Great Britain. In two years Douglass would reinforce the abolitionist backing internationally, throughout Britain and Ireland. ... Frederick Douglass fought for the equality among all humanity and wrote, "The real question, the all commanding question, is whether American justic...

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Many minorities face being pulled over by policemen just because of the color of their skin, not because of violating the law. ... (Schencker, Brenner, The Daily Illini) Taylor states, "in constitutional-law parlance, while racial profiling may be presumptively unconstitutional, that presumption is overcome in the case of airline passengers, because the government has a compelling interest in preventing mass-murder-suicide hijackings, and because close scrutiny of Arab-looking people is narrowly tailored to protect that interest. ... However now after the September eleventh attack many Arabs...

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Weylin whipped Dana for disobeying his authority, enforcing his law and making it known that whoever disobeyed his orders would suffer the consequences. Slave owners believed blacks couldn't hold the ability to own knowledge; therefore, they were restricted to any sort of reading or writing by law. ... Human traffickers have created an international market for the trade in human beings based on high bidders and demand for sex and cheap labor. ...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their northern or southern affiliations. ... The Afrikaners were a living fallacy in the sense that they thought that they could continually stop the fl...

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During the last half of the nineteenth-century the government formed strict laws to thwart the strong beliefs of polygamy until church leaders denounced the practice. ... Government officials, mainly the Republican Party, began to pass strict laws concerning anyone practicing plural marriage. ... Republican Government officials continued to disapprove of the polygamous Saints; laws were passed that took away the right to vote to any known person practicing polygamy. ...

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Black painters and sculptors joined their fellow poets, novelists, dramatists, and musicians in an artistic outpouring that established Harlem as the international capital of Black culture. ... Before the Harlem Renaissance, the majority of Blacks lived in the South and were constrained by Jim Crow laws (segregation laws that separated Blacks and Whites), which disenfranchised African American citizens and separated them from Whites in virtually every aspect of public life. ...

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Fiehn, on the other hand, correctly states that "the principle of black protest had been established, although it took many years for laws to be changed;" he rightly identifies that it took a significant period of time before the lives of African Americans began to improve. ... Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that Lincoln "placed the nation uppermost – above peace, above abolition, above property rights, and even above the constitution.5" Other ulterior mot...

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