... Title 6 abolished discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in any program or facility receiving federal assistance. Title 7 prohibited discrimination in the hiring, promoting, firing, and classification of employees because of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. It also prohibited printing or publishing job notices with preferences based on the above. Title 7 also created the Equal Employment opportunity Commission ... up to enforce the act. Many outspoken women were dubbed the title "feminist." Feminist Betty Friedan wrote the best-selling book The Feminine My...

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... it it is not simply ideological. This is an important distinction as it differentiates this type of action from other forms of ideological or revolutionary behavior. From the King center in Atlanta, here are the fundamental tenets of Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence described in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom. The six principles include: (1.) Nonviolence is not passive, but requires courage ... developed the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Resistance to Civil Government. Thoreau's essay has been influential on many practitioners of civil disobedience, inclu...

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... new deal. On July 2, 1976, almost two hundred years since the United States of America passed the Declaration of Independence, the Supreme Court legalized capital punishment (Appendix 1). Capital punishment, however, began long before this. In 1622 Daniel Frank, of the Colony of Virginia, was lawfully executed for the crime of theft. Since then there have been an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 people lawfully ... to wipe out racism. Among the foremost writers who have criticized the death penalty is Charles L. Black, Jr., Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In his book, Capital Pun...

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... peoples and a challenge to the present generation to protect and preserve...the humanity of all peoples of African descent." There are plenty of greatest african american people, for me was difficult choose only one biography do I decided to make a litlle biograpy of all ones that i considere inportant: Armstrong, Louis Daniel Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971) was a great jazz trumpet player, ... with the Harlem Renaissance art movement. Douglas was born in Topeka, Kansas, and studied art at the University of Nebraska. He later moved to Harlem, New York, and soon became a ...

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