...Escamilla 3 Zoily Escamilla Professor Sharifian GOVT-2305-71433 8/31/2017 Civil Liberties v. Civil Rights Civil Liberties are basically the freedom of citizens being able to exercise their basic rights off of the Bill of Rights without the government interfering. Civil Liberties include freedom of speech, privacy, right to marry, vote, bear arms, legal counsel, and the list goes on. Civil Rights are people being protected from discrimination of certain characteristics for instance, sexual preference, gender, and race. Civil liberties and civil rights are similar in which they both protect citizens and are supposed to help us feel safe and protected by the government. Civil Rights are more specific in my opinion, Civil Liberties are just basic rights being protected. Civil Rights have more of an influence in my life because I like the idea that if...
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...Anthonee Butler Essay 1, Draft 1 9/25/2013 I was exposed to reading at a young age. My earliest reading memory was my mother reading Dr. Seuss books to me when I was four or five. I used to enjoy seeing the pictures in the books more then I liked being read too. I also use to enjoy watching the characters in the books on television. As a kid I was in love with talking animals. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. The Arthur series was a big influence growing up. I remember one Christmas I got a stack of Arthur books and I was the happiest kid in the world. That whole week my mother would help me read the books and then I would watch the show on television right after. As I grew older, I started to enjoy reading horror books. I also liked horror films and I think that influenced what I liked to read. I really liked the Goosebumps series and could read them all day. I prefer to read about things that interest me. It’s hard for me to read something that doesn’t have my interest. In high school, I rarely read about something that interested me. At a young age, my grandmother would tell me stories about how she grew up in the south and how different the country was as a kid. She would tell me about how segregated it was and all about the civil rights movement and how it was a big part of her childhood. Hearing these stories that my grandmother would tell me made me want to learn more about the civil rights era in the south. A lot of things influenced me to read...
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...The Quest for Equality Debbie Werley U.S. History 1312 Dr. Wendell Hunnicut Final Essay March 21, 2012 Although the United States was founded on the ideal that all men are created equal, many Americans throughout our history have not enjoyed this privilege. Several issues, such as voting rights, labor equality, and equal opportunities in education have faced minorities and women in our country. Many gains in improving equality have been made. Voting rights for all Americans, improvement in workplace discrimination, and equal opportunities in education are some examples of these gains. Various prominent citizens have worked diligently throughout our history to accomplish equality for these groups using different methods. Some of these methods have worked better than others. Boycotts, peaceful marches and courtroom battles were some of the methods that brought better results. Many equality issues have affected minorities and women in our country. The fight for the right to vote was long and difficult for both groups. Although the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870, granting all black men voting rights, (Jones et al, 2009, 373) it was not until after World War II that this right was realized. Women’s suffrage was an even longer battle. Begun in 1866, when women reformers attempted to secure this right along with African American’s right to vote, women would not gain the vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (Jones et al, 2009, 476). Equality...
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...Daisy Bates was born on November 11, 1914 Huttig, Arkansas and was an American Civil Rights Activist, publisher and writer who is best known for her involvement in the struggle to integrate Cental High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was an advisor to nine black student trying to attend a previously all white school. She was also an important figure in the seminal moment of the civil rights movement. As a publisher and journalist, she was also a witness and advocate on a larger scale. Bates endured numerous hardships, but in the coming pass years her generous labors on behalf of equality opportunity have earned her many praise. Bates and her husband were important figures in the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957. The Bates published a local black newspaper, the Arksansas State Press, which advertised the violations of the Supreme Court's desegration rulings. She guided and advised the nine students, known as Little Rock Nine, when they attempted to enroll in an all white school. Ultimately, the Little Rock Nine were able to attend Central High, and many of them went on to impressive careers. The price for her husband and herself was high, and the advertisers caused the local black newspaper to dry up quickly. It was forced to shut down in 1959. Daisy Bates received many honors and rewards. In 1988 she received the American book award and Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in the University of Arksansas, 1984. Arkansas has established the third Monday in February as George...
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...in the weekdays. And the weekends will be off for them. According to the employee who had filed the case against the company has stated that the firm is discriminating on the base of the religion and they need to bring modification in it. The firm is trying to compel the employees to come and work on the religious days too if it comes in between those four days of the production work which is not correct on their part and they need to bring modification to holidays in case of religious occasions. The Civil Rights Act was enacted in the year 1964 and hence known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It has several chapters which are related to various aspects of the rights that are provided to the citizens. The aspects range from the basic rights to the rights they can exercise against the employers during the job and hence it can be said to be a legal documental form of the laws which tends to remind all of the citizens their rights. According to the Chapter VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it will be against the law in the part of the employers to subject the employees to any kind of discrimination which is related to the color, sex, caste,...
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...Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation in the United States was commonly practiced in many of the Southern and Border States. This segregation while supposed to be separate but equal, was hardly that. Blacks in the South were discriminated against repeatedly while laws did nothing to protect their individual rights. In May 26, 1956, a few Florida A&M students got on the bus to a short trip to downtown Tallahassee, where these two young black woman wanted to seat in front of the bus rather than stand, for the bus was full and no seats were available in the back. When the driver notice that these to black woman were sitting in the front of the bus beside a white woman; he immediately pulled over the bus and told them to get up. When the young ladies kindle said if you refund us we will get off the bus, the driver said no and called the cops, though the white woman they sat next to made no objection. Which further leads to them being arrested and charged with incite a riot, After this story made headlines in the Sunday paper many people such as minster Metz Rollins was hoping for the black community to act with determination and sprit as others did in Montgomery, Alabama a few months prior. (Rabby,10-11) Rev. C. K. Steele and Robert Saunders representing the NAACP began talks while blacks started boycotting the city's buses. This boycott was similar to that in the Montgomery Boycott with Rosa Parks. Former bus patrons began a car pool lasting through May 26 of 1957, several...
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...The Acceptance of Blacks in White America From America's birth with the signing of the Declaration of Independence there have been few movements that have affected as many people as the Civil Rights movement. In a world where blacks were always seen as inferior, any other notion or conception of blacks was highly untolerated. Since Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves in 1886, there had been no discernable change in the state of racial affairs in America. Not until Brown v. Board of Education ruled that schools should be integrated was anything done for help the plights of blacks. Even after Brown, the South met the changes with fierce and violent resistance. When CORE started their freedom rides, the activists were brutally beaten time and again by Southern whites opposed to change in their way of life. For many whites these were welcome changes that finally address the issue of racism and civil rights for all, but for the large population in the South the government telling them what to do did not sit well at all. These feelings of unrest caused many reactions from whites and blacks alike, but for whites in America these changes would rest deeply for years to come. Blacks have struggled to gain acceptance since they first were encountered with the injustice and inequality that dwelled in our country. However, whites had so repeatedly cut them down that most blacks were so far beaten into submission that hope for a better life seemed gone. The South could not stand having...
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...and stones may break bones but words will never hurt me”, but racial slurs and comments on sexual orientation hurt people everyday. Racism still exists today and its effect is still as strong as it was fifty years ago. The first amendment has allowed great men and women like Martin Luther King, Jr. to deliver speeches like ‘I Had A Dream’. By using our voice, we have gained equal rights for all people. However entertainment seems to have no concern about the progress that was made. Comedian Michael Richards, commonly known as Kramer on Seinfeld, was caught screaming racist remarks to a member of his audience. Also, shows like South Park push the limits of free speech all the time. South Park cartoons are constantly bashing Jews and making fun of religious figures. This season, South Park debuted with an episode in which the racist remark ‘nigger” was used over 40 times. However, many people feel like it helps teach the impact of the word to others. So, it is really hard to really determine what is too much and what is not. Some say that today’s gay rights movement is like the Civil Rights movement. And homosexuals are today’s top victims of free speech abuse. Stars like Eminem sing songs about killing gays and lesbians in his 2000 album “The Marshal Matters LP”. Even religion takes it swing at homosexuality. Anti-gay churches are always protesting against homosexuals and even the United States for allowing such acts. With signs like “God Hates Fags”, one might question...
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...most important point to me is Freedom of speech in the first amendment; without freedom of speech we can’t express what’s going on around you. The freedom of speech reserves democracy. I feel as if the “I had a dream” speech says a lot about the freedom of speech, Martin Luther king Jr, expressed his freedom of speech to promote civil rights and created equal rights. Some citizen’s opposed him but the government was on his side because is a constitutional right even though most of the people did not agree at all. A personal experience in my life was I went to the gay pride parade in Detroit with my best friend that happens to be gay and that parade helped get the law passed for gay marriage at least for my beliefs; I felt that everyone there had a voice and no one was left unheard and it really showed that the freedom of speech does matter. Freedom of speech is the foundation of our country and separates us from being like all the other country’s that we split away from long ago. The constitution is such an important thing, however, I believe the first amendment is the most important because without the rights granted by the First Amendment, all other rights of the Constitution are at risk; We can't insure a free society without freedoms of speech, religion, the press, and peaceable...
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...the common thought in his ideal. Du Bois belief was more of a socialist take that focused on a community helping others so “we” all can be in a better place. Washington helped the African-American population at that time believe in themselves by working for their dream. When he was a principal at Tuskegee, he taught academics in addition to trades so the students would never be uneducated in anything. He drilled the ideas of saving and accumulating wealth, overall work on yourself first, before you strive to help everyone (i.e. gaining civil liberties). Du Bois also helped the African-American population at the time too. He was more vocal about gaining rights and freedoms than wealth. Freedom and civil rights is what the people need in the new emancipated country was his philosophy. He spoke and wrote many papers preaching this ideology. He founded one of the oldest black associations that work to help correct civil liberty wrongs for all races, the NAACP. In my opinion, Washington’s theory would have been the most effective; however it was Du Bois theory that was...
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...Freedom Rider Hero Available on the Abagond Wordpress website, this photo of freedom rider James Zwerg was taken in 1961 after he was almost beaten to death by a mob in Montgomery, Alabama. James Zwerg is laying in the hospital bed with two black eyes and holding a newspaper that has a picture of him on the front page. Through selective positioning , ethos, and movement this photo brings to focus that during the civil rights movement, the white people that were trying to help the change were being beaten down and harmed just like the blacks were. The main focus of the photograph is obviously James laying in the bed holding a newspaper. The picture is in black and route because back in those days they didn't have colored photos. He looks to be in extreme pain, James appears to be asleep but with both of his eyes being bruised shut the viewer of the picture wouldn't really be able to tell. James Zwerg was drawn yup the civil rights movement by hanging out with his African-American roommate at Beloit College in Wisconsin. He was appalled by the way his roommate was being treated when they went out. So to see how it felt to be a minority, he went to Fisk University, an all-black college in Nashville, Tennessee. The night before eighteen black and white students, including James, went down to Montgomery, Alabama to freedom ride in order to try and change transportation segregation laws; he prayed for his safety and for the strength not to fight back. Once the greyhound...
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...Women’s Equality and Ethical Contributions Women’s equality has been less than equal in past years. In the last two centuries we have witnessed many victories for the equality of women, such as the right to vote and employment. Although there have been many accomplishments, there are still many situations in our western civilization in which women are not treated as equals to the male counterpart. I will explore several topics which still effect women and their ethical implements within several ethical theories. Women’s Voting Rights Women’s rights have been fought over for nearly two centuries. In 1848 the first meeting for women’s voting rights was conducted in Seneca, NY “calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women” (Imbornoni, 2007).This historic event initiated the long struggle of women battling to become an equal partner to men. Eventually women won the right to vote. Applying the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, one could argue that prohibiting a person’s right to vote would cause a prejudice government that is not representing the views of all people in which the laws effect. Allowing women to vote would open up new perspectives and opportunities to balance women and men’s rights. Since Utilitarianism focus’ on the “greater good for the greatest number of people” (Mosser, 2013), allowing women the vote would benefit society and create a “greater good” for the whole. A Utilitarianism of that era could counter argue that...
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...Women of the Civil Rights Movement: The role of women in the Civil Rights Movement In The American Journal of Legal History, Bernie D. Jones reviews the work of Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Grofman (2000), and describes the ends to the means. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act indisputably were effectual for altering the framework of the questionable American life, for the most part in the southern states. As a consequence, both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were accountable for the stoppage of vast opposition to the civil rights movement and the fitting fusion into the American Society by African Americans. By way of the Acts, public facilities that avidly participated in segregation became outlawed. Throughout the nation, as a result of the enforcement of the Acts, the former, not so easily attainable education opportunities and employment prospects that consistently had been refused, now, awarded African Americans impressively large supporting political control. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 pioneered immeasurably. Women were given distinctive safeguarding subject to employment discrimination law. Emphatically, invigorating the women’s movement, consequently, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 served movements of other ethnic civil rights. (p. xvi) VOICE OF OMISSION No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women. We are rarely...
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...T.V.E.E History 222 Short Paper John Moss Professor Gunshore History 222 African American History Since 1877 January 21, 2012 Topic: Women in the Civil Right Movement Women played a significance role in the Civil Rights Movement Viewpoint: Women played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement Evidence: “?[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It is an invaluable resource which helps set history straight.” —1 Four of the six women were born in nineteenth century but five of them died in this century: Wells-Barnett in 1931; Terrell in 1954; Bethune in 1955; Roosevelt in 1962; Baker in 1986; Parks is still alive. There are also some common threads that weave their way through each of these women’s lives. They all valued education, not just formal schooling but a love of learning making them truly life long learners. Each woman kept her mind open to new possibilities and each cared deeply about people 2 In 1963, for example, Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women, published The Feminine Mystique, which exposed the strict and confining gender roles instilled in U.S. society in the 1950s and 1960s -- and, arguably, today 3 Ida Wells-Barnett was one of two black women to sign the call for the formation of the National Association for...
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...The year of 1963 was not only a gruesome, dark year for the U.S. but it was a pivotal point in Civil Rights Movement. I know it’s hard to believe that America was in a horrible state then it is now but it’s true. For example can you believe that segregation was a common thing back then? Matter of fact in January Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, delivered a speech that segregation was something that was needed for the nation. Shortly a couple of months after civil rights activist took to the streets to protest but that turned into one of the most horrific scenes in our nation history. They were viciously attacked by dogs and sustain by fire hoses. A few weeks after this there was a small incident at University of Alabama were two black students were not accepted in by Gov. Wallace but he was overruled by President John F. Kennedy. He also gave a speech that same night saying he was going to present a civil rights bill to the Congress. Just as things were looking for Civil Rights Movement one of their infamous and one of their major leaders, Medgar Evers, was murdered outside his Mississippi home by the KKK that same night. But on August 28, 1963 the whole world would change as we know it because on this day Martin Luther King Dr. delivered the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington. This is probably one of most influential speeches ever given in American History. Just as things were looking like they were about to change for good, church bombs begin to happen...
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