The purpose of this Act would be to enforce the constitutional right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, while also enforcing equal protection of the 14th Amendment and constitutional right to interstate travel. Conyer's Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act has already been active in seven states since 1999, including North Carolina. ... The End Racial Profiling Act of 2001 provides a method of enforcing and punishing those who are responsible for racial profiling. ... The Act also states that a list of Policies and Procedures made by the Attorney General will be in...

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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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(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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Investigative reporter Robert Sherrill concluded in his book The Saturday Night Special that the object of the Gun Control Act of 1968 was black control rather than gun control. Congress passed the act to "shut off weapons access to blacks, and since congress probably associated cheap guns with ghetto blacks and thought cheapness was uncommonly the characteristic of imported military surplus and the mail order traffic, they decided to cut off these sources while leaving over the counter purchases open to the rich.". ... These minorities, because of police indifference o...

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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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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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Black trade organizations, protection groups, black sympathizers, and successful black business men were inhumanly terrorized and brutally murdered in the night. ... With its objective achieved and the passing of the Ku Klux Act in 1871, the Klan virtually disappeared, but only temporarily. ... And anyway, who would we have left to argue with if we all looked, thought, acted, and believed the same? ...

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