... industries, and eventually spread worldwide. It gave people, especially the youth and woman, new lifestyles and notions of social and sexual freedom unexperienced previously. Women would save time by using cars to complete their daily domestic chores, and it gave them time and freedom never experienced before. The younger generation saw the car as an escape from over bearing chaperones whom ... had previously dominated their social lives. Groups of teenagers were able to travel together on their own. Youths saw this as a blessing, but parents had a quite a different view - they saw cars...

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... Civil Rights Movement of Black People.  In the meantime white southerners continued to hang onto a long gone past by publicly exhibiting Confederate flags. These flags are still represented today on cars and buildings. These flags to me a re represented by people thinking its just a cool thing to display and not truly understanding the meaning. According to Brad Gooch, a biographer of O'Connor ... ...

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... with more arrests. Furthermore, forfeiture laws, such as the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, allowed the police to increase the size of their budgets by taking the cash, cars, and homes of people suspected of drug abuse or sales. Poorer people were targeted because they did not simply have the money to prove the property's "innocence." According ... ...

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... of combatting racism a rough total of around 1 trillion dollars a year. (freedomoutpost.com) With numbers like that the existence of racism keeps very important figures in this country in nice suits, cars, and houses. (freedomoutpost.com) Take Reverend Al Sharpton for example, perhaps the most prominent black voice for the people only second to our Commander in Chief. Namely Obama, whom, by ... ...

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... landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. He meet gangsters and hustlers who would be key players in the future for him. Eventually he ... ...

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... Jem, Scout and Dill decide to follow him into the town center and from a distance they observe him sitting in front of Maycomb jail reading a newspaper. At that moment, four cars drive up to the jail and a group of men get out demanding that Atticus move away from the jailhouse door. He refuses and Scout runs across the town square to ... ...

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... , he goes into a state of complete rebellion and gets involved with hard drugs at a young age. His grades go down in school, he quits church, he shoplifts, he breaks into cars, starts smoking marijuana and taking LSD. He becomes addicted to this unruly lifestyle and cannot go back to his miserable life at home. Drugs keep him in line and disinterested ... ...

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... . They made a fortune - everybody could -except the blacks, they were not allowed to. They had to stay outside Wallstreet, could only take a brief look at the new inventions, vogue and cars on the street. They were not part of the new American life style. They felt left outside and forgotten. They had to fight against the old images of blacks, their ... ...

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... talked about the Freedom Riders in a church in Montgomery, a group of angry whites broke the church windows, threw stones and bombs with tear gas in the church, and burned some cars outdoors. The police arrived in time to prevent further damage and helped the people. In 1963 Martin Luther King led a large citizen-rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Here, people stood ... ...

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... named Eugene Williams, and hit him on the head. The boy died from this and a riot ensued where whites used bats, steel bars, and revolvers and drove around in their cars to attack black people. A Polish neighborhood was even burned down to get them to side with the rest of the white people in attacking the blacks. Rents in black communities ... ...

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... opportunities for the Soviet Union. His civil rights achievements were limited by resistance in congress, although legal cases like "Henderson v US" made it unlawful to have segregation on railway dining cars under the Interstate Commerce Act. Eisenhower (1953-61), saw important legal cases being won with help from the NAACP. The exemplar being the 1954 Brown v The Board of Education, challenging ... ...

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