Homer Plessy was a "passenger [on a train] between two stations within the states of Louisiana. " however he was "seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth black " --the amount of African American in his blood was hardly visible on his complexion-- and was arrested and put on trial for sitting in the "White " section of the train and violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act. Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the "equal " protection of the law clause Fourteenth Amendment. ... Supreme Court conclude that state laws requiring "separate but equal schools violated t...

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Environmental protections were a big part of the government issues, because business people believed in the idea of natural selection, and Social Darwinism. ... In result of the activism the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act, were passed to support the citizens. ...

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Environmental protections were a big part of the government issues, because business people believed in the idea of natural selection, and Social Darwinism. ... In result of the activism the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act, were passed to support the citizens. ...

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Due to the lack of legal protection for black people, guns and weaponry feature highly in the book. ... It's for protection."" ... Education was very poor, but it hardly compared with the careful juggling act parents had to do o protect their families. ...

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White men used white women to justify the frequent lynchings occurring in the south, portraying white women as victims of assault and those in need of protection. However, African American women who fell victim to rape did not receive the same protection and defense- leading to the double standard concerning how white women and black women were treated as rape victims. ... This white woman's rape inspired white men to take violent action against the man accused of being responsible, and also gave them an excuse to act out violently against innocent African Americans. ...

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Fortunately, the courts ruled in favor of Brown and the other parents, and agreed that the doctrine of separate but equal was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ... Expecting resistance from many, especially the southern states, the Supreme Court acted very cautiously and did not demand immediate desegregation. ... In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson issued the Civil Rights Act. This act forbade any form of racism in education, transportation and public facilities. After this act was issued, about 6% of southern blacks were integrated within...

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(L) Other bills were passed such like the Freedmen's Bureau act.... This act obligated the south to start over again and to began to reform. ... (T517) The black people did not get any protection from the government in till the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited racism in public places....

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The Southern act of lynching was performed by a frustrated and scared group of people. ... It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right" explains Ida Wells. ... Lynching really did not stop until the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which provides federal intervention in cases of injury to all citizens of the United States. ...

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In the article "Civil Rights Act if 1964" by Everett Dirksen states that long after slavery was abolished blacks still did not have the same rights as whites. ... With such great strides met enforcing the "Civil Rights Act of 1964," we were still faced with issues in discrimination in the work place. ... In addition to the "color by numbers" article, the EEOC rules created for protection of all people. ...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed segregation in businesses, it banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places. ... Over decades after the civil rights movement, Supreme Court decisions have contradicted the Fourth Amendment protections, which guarantees citizens a right to privacy. ... As of today, the Patriot Act permi...

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The amendment said that '[no] State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws'." ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was created. ...

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This leads to the Railway Separation Act in Louisiana in 1890, and to a Supreme Court decision in 1896 known as Russell, 2 Plessy vs. ... This belief is sometimes realized in the act of Paternalism, or a field of thought where the white society feels that it is their duty to help the black people raise themselves up out of barbarism and lead a happy life of servitude. ... These cases of white against white often frightened many other whites that could have potentially been advocates for civil rights to cower behind the blanket of protection of conforming to the views of the so-called South...

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Just like African Americans, Mexican Americans secured legal protections for civil rights but the inequality of their outcomes remained. ... "Mexican Americans achieved a major victory in 1975 when Congress expanded the Voting Rights act to cover "language minorities....

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Parks' act started a citywide boycott of the bus system by African-Americans that lasted for more than a year. ... Because he advocated the use of violence (for self-protection) and appeared to many to be a fanatic, most civil-rights leaders, who emphasized nonviolent resistance to racial injustice, rejected his leadership. ...

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• Grade Level: High School