Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. Furthermore, the similarities between America and South Africa prior to American radical change in social policy seemed to prove that significant intra-white conflict threatened political stability and hence nation-state consolidation, legal racial domination w...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ultimately, beginning to rise in society blacks now spoke freely and was involved in rallies and organizations. ... Students in certain organizations like SNCC fell back and let the good come to them. As a result, they gained more knowledge then they had before of economic and social politics. ... FBI agents in the sixties weren't big on black organizations. So they would pick and pick until they found a crack in the organization then they"ll shut it down. ...

• Word Count: 3405
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• Grade Level: High School

He argues that "the massive social engineering under apartheid in South Africa" is an example of "high modernist utopianism of the right." ... The final method of segregation was social segregation of public places, methods of transportation, and schools. ... Arguably one of the most devastating aspects of the social engineering of Apartheid was its creation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. ...

• Word Count: 2509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His life alone has brought about so many changes in social, racial, and political America that without his assistance today's world would not be, at all, as it is at this moment in time. ... He was popular and a member of the first Black Greek Fraternal Organization, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. ... He watched Houston stand up and fight for a black man with his life on the line: "The lawyer was there to bear the brunt of getting rid of segregation," Marshall said. " And Houston made public statements that black lawyers he trained at Howard would become social engineers rather than lawyers. .....

• Word Count: 4823
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King, his older sister Christine and his younger brother Alfred Daniel grew up in a stable social circumstance. ... At seventeen, King decided to become a pastor in order to better influence people in social changes and to promote Christian ideals. ... In the following years, he was more interested in social and ethical questions of the human condition. ... This success released a general enthusiasm in the black population of America and led to formations of numerous civil right organizations. Amongst them was Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a most influential and widespread ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
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• Grade Level: High School

After his speech before the crowd in the eviction scene, when he realized what he could achieve with his rhetorical skills the narrator comes "to believe that organization was the key to radical change and personal fulfillment " (Lane: 67). ...

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All of us, who might have probed space, cured cancer, or built industries, were, instead, black victims of the White's social system (Malcolm 1). ... The author believes that the Islamic religion is likely to change the social problems of the American society. ... In his career as an influential activist, the author attempts to employ the Islamic religion in changing the divine, political, economic and social wellbeing amongst the African-Americans. ...

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Instead, they have suggested that the connections between race and sentencing outcomes are exceedingly complex, conditioned by a diverse set of variables, including characteristics of the defendant, the victim, the crime itself and the geographical area where it took place, as well as the bureaucratic organization of local courts, the culture of courtroom workgroups, and even broader features of the social and political environments in which case processing takes place. ... In reaction to perceived inequalities in the federal and state sentencing systems, social and legal scholars pressed for...

• Word Count: 2620
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Even though the model for residential zoning may need a little work, there are many organizations that have been formed in hopes to influence racial harmony. ... The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the National Fair Housing Alliance, and CORE (Committee of Racial Equality) have been some of the leading organizations in obtaining fair housing policies for blacks and other minorities. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... Recent studies have proved this ongoing trend towards self-inflicted segregation of races in the US a social reality. ... One of the rapist's brothers establishes contact with the klansmen in a different part of Mississippi and eventually founds a new chapter of the organization in Ford County. ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, he realized that blacks in the North had voting rights, but were in even worse economic and social condition than southern blacks. ... He recognized that his ideology of women was wrong and for black men to become educated and move ahead economically and socially women would have to do the same. Malcolm began to designate important roles to women within his organization, OAAU. ...

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According to a wide range of civil rights and human rights organizations, the expansion of racial profiling after the September 11 attacks appears to have contributed to a climate of discrimination that indirectly encourages hate crimes against certain minority groups and people who look like them by conveying the message that such discrimination is acceptable and helpful in fighting terrorism. ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate