Affirmative-action protection for Hispanics and other immigrants -- legal or illegal -- is another matter. ... In the Voting Rights Act, and in federal legislation and regulations giving benefits to minority contractors, a form of affirmative action is already enshrined in law. Blacks, whose leaders strenuously but unsuccessfully resisted sharing the Voting Rights Act with Hispanics, will not need to be convinced of the wisdom of restricting affirmative action to themselves. ... On the other hand, one suspects that blacks will not be joined by their white liberal allies, who will probably see ...

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The purpose of this Act would be to enforce the constitutional right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, while also enforcing equal protection of the 14th Amendment and constitutional right to interstate travel. Conyer's Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act has already been active in seven states since 1999, including North Carolina. ... The End Racial Profiling Act of 2001 provides a method of enforcing and punishing those who are responsible for racial profiling. ... The Act also states that a list of Policies and Procedures made by the Attorney General will be in...

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White men used white women to justify the frequent lynchings occurring in the south, portraying white women as victims of assault and those in need of protection. However, African American women who fell victim to rape did not receive the same protection and defense- leading to the double standard concerning how white women and black women were treated as rape victims. ... This white woman's rape inspired white men to take violent action against the man accused of being responsible, and also gave them an excuse to act out violently against innocent African Americans. ...

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(Zinn, 199) When Hayes beat Tilden in the presidential election by promising to end the Reconstruction in the South, it was evident that the White House would no longer support any calls for the protection of blacks. ... A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. ... With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supremacists. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their stat...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed segregation in businesses, it banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places. ... Over decades after the civil rights movement, Supreme Court decisions have contradicted the Fourth Amendment protections, which guarantees citizens a right to privacy. ... As of today, the Patriot Act permi...

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Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection for what the government calls protected class members. ... Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection to what the government calls the "protected class." ... This was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was passed into law. ...

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Black trade organizations, protection groups, black sympathizers, and successful black business men were inhumanly terrorized and brutally murdered in the night. ... With its objective achieved and the passing of the Ku Klux Act in 1871, the Klan virtually disappeared, but only temporarily. ... And anyway, who would we have left to argue with if we all looked, thought, acted, and believed the same? ...

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The Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the states from limiting citizens" privileges and immunities or depriving citizens of due process or equal protection under the law. ... Yet these barriers were seemingly lifted with the passage of the Amnesty Act in 1872; which pardoned most of the remaining Confederates, and removed the previous barriers to a degree that allowed the states to regain their political strength. ... They knew that with the re-emergence of white supremacy in 1872, they needed to act fast, to prevent a completely unwarranted return to submission. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement also acted as a training ground for the eventual participants in the women's liberation movement. ... Advocacy continued and turned into legislative success in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. ...

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Through persistence, African Americans were able to pass the Civil rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, along with many more legal achievements1. ...

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Colonel Montgomery acted as if all blacks were uneducated and unable to grasp the basic functions that were essential to a soldier's success within the Civil War. ... Calvin realizes that as much as he despises and mistrusts Arly after he begins impersonating Josiah Culp, he needs a white man as protection and would not be accepted as a photographer if he were on his own. ...

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Constitution states "No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws." ... This act does not put one race above the other like affirmative action, but simply gives finical aid to the students that deserve to go to school though they cannot afford it. ...

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Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among similar illegal acts (retribution), to help and not just punish the criminals in order to remove further threat to society (rehabilitation), and to detain criminals to eliminate risk of a repeated offence (incapacitation).2 According to UN declaration article 7, the United Nations, all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are enti...

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Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois conti...

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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