... game of basketball had been created in 1891; it was until 1950 when the game became racially integrated, allowing black men to play on white teams. In 1892, a Gymnastic instructor, Senda Berenson Abbott, adapts to the basketball rules and introduces the sport to women at Smith College. ... whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." From this point on, America was viewed as two separate races, Black and White, resulting in the Jim Crow Laws. This would include many sports, especially basketball. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was founded in 1997 ... baske...

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... implied equality4. Although equality was one of the most important beliefs of a mason, it is interesting that African American's were not allowed to join most White Masonic lodges. Prince Hall, founder of the first African American freemason lodge, took it into his own hands to build a space where Black American's ... was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. His lodge was not recognized as a real Masonic lodge by the white Freemasons, but he did not let this deter him. Hall being a former slave had insight into the harsh realities of life as a s...

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... ;a poisonous system of privilege that pits people against each other and prevents the creation of common ground. Exposing, analyzing, and eradicating this pathology is an obligation that we all share, white people most of all."(Lipsitz xix) Lipsitz offers compelling, emotional, and historical facts and stories to support his claim that America has an investment in whiteness. His major story is ... in an attempt to equalize education, these laws having been "designed to end segregated education [, they like a lot of other laws and policies,] have been consistently undermined and defeated ...

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... versus Board of Education decision removed legal restraints that had so long kept Blacks deeply impoverished. Minorities long were subjected to deep-rooted forms of discrimination especially from the greater white population. For instance, "if a superior had any overt or covert prejudices against members of a racial or ethnic minority, it would be apparent that an individual's destiny rested on subjective and ... non-rational factors (Cousens 113)." This was a result of the "failure of the Brown decision to deconstruct White dominance and privilege; it merely allowed Blacks to enter the...

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... and widely recognized of the groups. At the beginning, the main goal of the Klan was to keep blacks from voting and establish exclusive white government, in the southern states to keep blacks at the level of servitude they were at during slavery. Black trade organizations, protection groups, ... and the foreign devils." To accomplish this goal the Klan used horrific tactics to intimidate blacks and anyone else who got in their way of a white-government. The Klan would murder whole families in the middle of the night, burn down homes, hold public lynchings and beatings, and conduct other ...

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... progress was limited because of a balancing act between northern push for reform and the southern fear of threatened livelihood. Booker T Washington 1856-1915 himself a former slave, challenged white opinion, by proving that African Americans deserved respect and equality. He advocated practical, economic and social improvements enabling legal reform and political advancement. He endorsed black self-help ... enraged other black civil rights leaders especially Du Bois, alienating him. Garvey disagreed with the other civil rights leaders by advocating ... racial segregation and claiming a...

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... unattainable in the early 1870's. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Age of Reconstruction saw the introduction of Black codes in many Southern States as white officials, who had served the Confederacy, were elected to govern. The black codes were aimed at stopping the movement of equality in the & ... " sense as it did not receive full support from Congress and particularly as it was shut in 1872 due to pressure from white southerners. Whilst the Freedmen's Bureau made political progress towards effective equality the Ku Klux Klan was greatly halting it socially. By 1871 Nathan .....

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... the workplace is still a problem in the United States. Since the 1950s, the female-to-male earnings gap has hovered around 60%: in 2001, for every dollar earned by a white man, white women earned 73 cents, African American women 63 cents, and Latinas 53 cents. Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" ... are women, 8% of police officers, 1.9% of construction workers, 11.8% of college presidents, and 3-5% of the senior-level jobs in major companies. However, 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs are still white men. The principal moral claim involv...

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... very hard as they were being deprived of their rights. For example the rights to good jobs, schools, houses, as well as voting. White violence against black Americans continued from the Klu Klux Klan. World War 2 for the first time gave black Americans the chance to achieve in accomplishments ... was the Montgomery bus boycott. The Montgomery busboy cut was started by Rosa Parks an NAACP activist that decided not to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery. This sparked a bus boycott whereby civil rights leaders got together in order to organise a day to boycott the busses ...

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... , the party that had given them the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The Republican Party supported blacks, whereas the Democrat Party was the party of the South, and the Southern, White plantation owner. To the black community, the Republican Party represented "the high-minded, idealistic, God-fearing people," whereas Democrats "dabbled in influence-peddling and vice" (Weiss 1983: 3). All ... new century government sanctioned segregation and discrimination seemed to increasingly become the norm.. By the 1920's, the Republican Party had alienated the black community by their "interest in...

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... humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country," (Davis, The Irrepressible Conflict, 447). The Northerners had not freed the slaves for moral issues; the white majority did not have anything but its own economic prosperity on its mind. The African Americans gained their emancipation and new rights through the battling Northern and Southern factions of ... President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supr...

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... containment policy and the Cold War. However after years of continuous protest and demonstrations the movement finally received governmental assistance in 1953 after peaceful demonstration led to violent reactions by white southerners. The events were televised throughout the world, such as Martin Luther King marching in Birmingham where the demonstrators met heavy resistance by Birmingham fire and police. They were sprayed ... race and gender in all their operations. However even after all the legal battles and demonstration most states in the south were still segregated due to numerou...

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... higher education as well as political, social, and economic equality at once. Booker T. Washington, born in 1856 to a slave mother and an unknown white man, faced many obstacles throughout his lifetime, which may have influenced his views on equality for African Americans (Harlan). Since he was born to a slave ... the Negro races" (Dubois 39). He says this because he believes that Washington is asking his fellow people to accept inferiority to the white race in order for them to help the African Americans and be able to interact with them socially, politically, and economically. Next, Du...

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... equality. After graduating in 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree, won a prestigious fellowship and was elected president of his predominantly white senior class (History.com). King then enrolled in a graduate program at Boston University, completing his coursework in 1953 and earning a doctorate in systematic theology two years later. While in ... of 1954. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (1913-2005), secretary of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, refused to give up her...

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... test results that showed that out of the 41 New Haven firefighters that took the race neutral exam twenty five were white, eight were black, and eight were hispanic. Out of the top ten scores on the test eight were white, and two were hispanic. This means that in order to fill the vacancies from the test scores no blacks would have ... a similar situation for the lieutenants exam with the exam being weighed the same 60/40. Seventy seven firefighters took the exam; forty three were white, nineteen were black, fifteen were hispanic. Fourteen of the fifteen highest scores were white follow...

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... Malcolm X had quite successfully appropriated the religious discourse of Islam and instrumentalized it to political ends. This proved especially game-changing, because it capacitated black people to reject the dominant, white, judeo-christian hegemony. It also helped to phrase and reinforce Black Pride as an emerging collective identity replete with self-confidence. Also, one could detect a multitude of positive side effects ... of this islamization, as the Afro-American community had a lot of trouble with so-called vices of the white man as drugs, alcohol, prostitution, gambling etc. O...

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... and economic rights of all newly freed slaves." Seen by many (and rightfully so) as a terrorist organization, the KKK resisted the Reconstruction Period by "assaulting, murdering, and intimidating freedmen and white Republicans."" The Ku Klux Klan Act and the Joint Select Committee's majority report can be seen as succeeding "in suppressing the Klan's activities in those regions where it was enforced ... representatives, the committee heard testimony from up to a hundred people in each state that they investigated. Witnesses were from all parts of society and "represented a broad spectr...

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... the beginning called such radicals his "adversaries." Johnson's Jacksonian convictions for a truly united nation led him to insist on the speedy restoration of Southern governments based on the prewar white electorate. High Confederate officials and all those owning property valued at more than $20,000 were excluded from amnesty, but were entitled to individual pardons granted directly by the ... failures of Reconstruction seem to outweigh these minor achievements. The terms of Ulysses S. Grant, Johnson's successor, were filled with scandal and failed to complete the work of reconstruct...

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... to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." -- Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 By 1960 government had become an increasingly powerful force in people's lives. During the 1930s, The White House had initiated legislation and worked closely with Congress to ease the trauma of the Great Depression. New executive agencies were created to deal with many aspects of American life ... in the last year of his presidency was enacted in 1964-1966, he was seen as a liberal force for change after his death. President Kennedy was initially reluctant to press white Southerners for support on civil ...

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... Topeka. Since the day African Americans became allowed to attend public schools they were shafted and segregated. They were sent to different school and not given and equal opportunity. The white majority of the US felt that this was ok. They told them selves" schools were separate but equal. But equality is really together, because in equality there is no difference ... between black and white. Without the intervention of the Supreme Court saying that "Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon colored children- People would never have sto...

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... Intervening in Little Rock (1957): Eisenhower had argued that "laws could not change what was in the hearts of men."" But after witnessing scenes of white violence in Little Rock, sent in Federal Troops to: "To restore the image of America in the eyes of the world, as one nation, ... a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on ... nation until the bright da...

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... imposed to severely restrict the rights of African Americans. The 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson court case ordered separate but equal accommodations for black and white Americans, however, in most situations, the separated facilities were like night and day. Whites enjoyed comfortable and clean accommodations, while blacks were not ... Chicago, went to visit his uncle in Mississippi. He made a comment that, in the South, was considered disrespectful to a white woman. The boy was physically taken from his uncle's home, and three days later his lifeless body was found brutally beaten in the Ta...

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... Individually, covert racism is exemplified in Malcolm X's autobiography. When describing his high-school experience, Malcolm writes, "it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. Even though they appeared ... and got along very well with his fellow students, the student and faculty bodies failed to view him as they viewed any other white student. Though they may have treated him equally, this does not mean that their attitudes showcased the same thinking of equality. Malcolm ....

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... to perpetrate Black suffering and discontent. As the decade of the 1940s unfolded, a few changes for the better began to take place. In the late summer of 1944, a precursor of white and black cooperation appeared in the Miami Daily News announcing the city's first multiracial group specifically organized to address problems between whites and blacks relating to housing, health and recreation ... . The committee was composed of six white and six black members. Members of the Dade County Interracial Committee toured sections of Miami's black communities in order to observe living condition...

• Word Count: 1986
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... the beginning called such radicals his "adversaries." Johnson's Jacksonian convictions for a truly united nation led him to insist on the speedy restoration of Southern governments based on the prewar white electorate. High Confederate officials and all those owning property valued at more than $20,000 were excluded from amnesty, but were entitled to individual pardons granted directly by the ... failures of Reconstruction seem to outweigh these minor achievements. The terms of Ulysses S. Grant, Johnson's successor, were filled with scandal and failed to complete the work of reconstruct...

• Word Count: 1331
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate