... a seamstress when she could not find a job to suit her skills. She was also a long-time NAACP worker. When she was arrested in December 1955, she had recently completed a workshop on race relations at the Highlander Folk School in neighboring Monteagle, Tennessee. She was a well-respected woman within ... one-day boycott, followed three months later by a weeklong boycott, resulted in buses that were more desegregated yet still had some separate seating. On Thursday, December 8, the fourth day of the boycott, King and other Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) officials met with lawyer...

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... states, most of which went to the current Texas Governor and Republican candidate George Walker Bush. After the networks, through the use of wire services and exit polling, became sure enough to give Kentucky and Indiana to the Governor as well, Bush enjoyed a sensible lead over his opponents, ... in Florida should be recounted. Meanwhile, with a 537-vote lead, Katherine Harris had already declared George W. Bush the winner in Florida and on December sixth, the Republicans were already picking electors to represent the state6. Gore, facing defeat eye to eye, still refused to concede just...

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... seems to contradict his previous beliefs. Currently, Congress issued the country a block grant of $1.775 billion to aid social services. This was directed to help childcare, protective services for children and adults, foster care, services related to management and maintenance of the home, transportation services, and more. Public Law 97-35 gave states the power to take ten percent of the money usually granted ... the money. Grants have been given in two forms to regulate and control how the government money is spent. This particular grant was allowed to use the money on social service...

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... a new structure where non-English speaking students would be given equal opportunity to obtain a quality education. Case Details The case of Lau v. Nichols was heard by the Supreme Court in December of 1973. In this case, the plaintiff was Kinney Kinmon Lau, a Chinese-American student in the San Francisco School District, who, along with his guardian, argued that numerous Chinese- ... Although these Amendments were added to the Constitution, African Americans were segregated in public places including schools, restrooms, train stations, restaurants, and much more. This was allowed becaus...

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... that the fetus is a human life from the moment of conception, invalid. Six years later the Supreme Court empowers states to impose abortion restric! tions in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services case, which upheld a Missouri ban on the use of public facilities, money or employees, who are involved in performing abortions. In 1992, a mostly conservative Supreme Court states that abortions can ... vs. Casey case. Two years later, the Madsen vs. Women's Center Inc., the Supreme Court allows judges to create abortion clinic safety zones to protect against anti-abortion protesters. On De...

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