Associate Program Material Racial Diversity in Society Worksheet Part I Complete the following using the MySocLab Social Explorer Map: Income Inequality by Race (located on the student website) as a reference: • Select 1 racial group from the list below: o African American o Asian American o Arab American o Hispanic American/Latino o White/Caucasian • Write a 150- to 300-word summary of the economic, social, and political standings of that group. Use
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Allan Pinkerton was born August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a Scottish detective and also a founder of a famous private American detective agency. He was the son of a police sergeant by the name of William Pinkerton who left his family in great abjection when he passed away and his mother Isabella McQueen. Later on in life Allan started to work as a cooper. Soon after that he became involved in Chartism. While being a part of that his activities developed in a warrant for his arrest. In
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Allan Pinkerton 1819-84, American detective, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, b. Glasgow, Scotland. A cooper by trade, he immigrated to the United States in 1842 and opened in West Dundee, Ill., a cooper's shop, which became a station on the Underground Railroad. Allan Pinkerton was a hard-working man, and realized that working for himself would be a much better plan for himself and family. His wish to improve his business led him down the path to being a detective. Pinkerton
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Ethnic Groups and Discriminations Kenya Allen ETH/125 2/12/2012 Mamie Tapp Ethnic Groups and Discriminations I am an African American male born in the United States of America. I prefer black Americans but that is not the political name for my race currently. My group has faced prejudice, segregations and racism. Facing racism comes from ignorant people who thought they were the supreme race and black
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The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a time in American history still spoken of with strong emotions today. The events of the era helped to spawn countercultures that helped to mold the country. There was strife and violence, fear and wounds, but mostly there was a quiet moment when the country’s college students moved from childhood into adulthood. This growth gave them the power to speak out against a war they did not believe in and were forced to send their brothers, boyfriends, and husbands to
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War on Poverty Begun officially in 1964, the War on Poverty was an ambitious governmental effort to address the problem of persistent poverty in the United States. Over the next decade, the federal government—in conjunction with state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots groups—created a new institutional base for antipoverty and civil rights action and, in the process, highlighted growing racial and ideological tensions in American politics and society. Marked by moments
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Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement was an introduction to what would be the nations’ most important effort to solve the racial issues. No longer to ignore the race problems; an effort to provide justice and equality to African Americans began. Leaders launched demonstrations and speeches were given. Organizations gathered to support litigations against the segregation laws. Pressure built, leading to a response to the Civil Rights Movement and through continuing efforts a breakthrough
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Equal Employment Opportunity "There are no ‘white’ or ‘colored’ signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle" (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Message to Congress, 19th June 1963). Two months after President John F. Kennedy assumed his role as the President of the United States of America he issued Executive Order 10925. This order first established the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The mission of the committee was to end discrimination in employment by government
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Why did Richard Nixon win the presidential election in November 1968? Richard Nixon’s scant win in the election of 1968 by a mere 500,000 votes marked the end of one of America’s most tumultuous years. The assassinations, revolutions, riots, and the Vietnam War all made 1968 a year to remember in American history and the presidential race was no different. Though Nixon actually received fewer votes than he did in the 1960 election, he was able to take the presidency and begin America’s move
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ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote” (Gillett, 2008) There were many women active in the movement of the 1920s, with the help of great leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Blackwell, Carrie Catt, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Lucretia Mott, the 19th amendment was passed. The 19th amendment basically denied the right to vote based on sex that was the only way where women were allowed to participate in
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