Certain police are taking advantage of their position of authority. ... Other than police misconduct, racial inequities have also poisoned the criminal justice system. ... Our current state of affairs should focus on police brutality and to what extent their power should give them. ... Eliminating police brutality against people of color should become a national priority. Many people should become aware of how serious of a threat racial profiling and police brutalities are. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite jeopardized jobs, intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. ... He avoided jail time; however, as the police commissioner paid the fine to avoid the publicity King would have garnered. After this police incident, while at a book signing, King was critically stabbed by a deranged black woman. ... Birmingham police seemed to go about this in matters of brutality. ... From all of the brutality this brought upon, the tide ...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" These riots were largely due to police brutality. "If blacks conduct themselves in an orderly way, they will not have to worry about police brutality," argued West Virginia senator Robert Byrd. ...

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The need for the stop of Black on Black crime, police brutality and human unity are addressed in this song that reached the number one slot on the billboard top 100. ... Changes tells us a story of living in the "hood" and dealing with issues such as police brutality, poverty and racism. ...

• Word Count: 3526
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• Grade Level: High School

The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School

There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also ...

• Word Count: 3405
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• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King and George Wallace had extremely opposing views of the civil rights movement and the deterioration of segregation. Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the posit...

• Word Count: 2706
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Starting in the 1960's, a plan of "Grand Apartheid'' was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and strict police control. ... And, during the states of emergency, which continued intermittently until 1989, a low-level police official for up to six months could detain anyone without a hearing. ...

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