... quality of their basic human rights, including health care, employment and education. This discrimination can be seen in the divide of resources in the education system, where in 1949 in Alabama, the states expenditure for African American students was only 27 per cent of its expenditure of white students. (Pinder, K & Hanson, E 2010 A Historical Perspective of Segregation, Amsterdam Law Reform) For decades ... country. The march made specific demands aimed at achieving economic equality, including a laws prohibiting racial discrimination in employment and a $2 minimum wage for all work...

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