Source And Note Cards

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Source #1

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Hutchinson, Thomas. “Strictures upon the Declaration
of the Congress at Philadelphia: In a Letter to a Noble
Lord, &c.” Strictures upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia : In a Letter to a Noble
Lord, & c (1776). Rpt. In Nineteenth-Century Literature
Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris and Jay Parini. Vol. 11 Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.

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Source #2

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"Gay Marriage ProCon.org." Gay Marriage ProCon.org. ProCon.org, 22 May 2013. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #3

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Bennett, Dashiel. "Do Gay People Really Make Up 3.5% of the Population?" The Atlantic Wire. The Atlantic Monthly Group, 18 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #4

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"The Rainbow Struggle." GlobalPost. Global Post - International News, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #5

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Drewry, Henry. "African American History." Scholastic Teachers. Scholastic Inc., n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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"The Civil Rights Act of 1968 - Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)." The Civil Rights Act of 1968 - Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress). MyLOC, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #7

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/19/poll-more-americans-favor-same-sex-marriage/

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Source #8

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"Women Who Fought for the Vote." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #9

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"Powerful and Memorable Queens." About.com: Women's History. About.com, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Nishi, Dennis. "A Nation Divided." Prohibition. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2003. 10-12. Print.

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Source #11

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Brunner, Borgna, and Elissa Haney. "Civil Rights Timeline." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Source #12

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Imbornoni, Anne-Marie. "Women's Rights Movement in the U.S." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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"Preamble to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776." Preamble to U.S. Declaration of Independence. Christina Niven, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Frank-Ruta, Garance. "Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are." The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group, 31 May 2012. Web. 29 May 2013.

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Human Rights Principles." Human Rights Principles: Advancing Human Rights: UNFPA. United Nations Populaiton Fund, n.d. Web. 29 May 2013.

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“...; or in what sense are all men created equal; or how far life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness may be said to be unalienable; only I could wish to ask the Delegates of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, how their Constituents justify the depriving more than an hundred thousand Africans of their rights to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and in some degree to their lives, if these rights are so absolutely inalienable;…”

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"As of May 21, 2013, gay marriage has been legalized in 12 US states (CT, DE, IA, MA, MD, ME, MN, NH, NY, RI, VT, and WA) and the District of Columbia. Thirty-six states have gay marriage bans through either laws or constitutional amendments or both."

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"Proponents argue that same-sex couples should have access to the same marriage benefits and public acknowledgment enjoyed by heterosexual couples and that prohibiting gay marriage is unconstitutional discrimination."

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"Opponents argue that altering the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman will further weaken a threatened institution and that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope that may lead to polygamous and interspecies marriages."

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Note Card #5 (3)

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"Gallup also found that outside of a few outliers, the results were remarkably consistent across the entire nation. Averaging all the state polls together gives you a nationwide average of 3.5 percent, and every state in the union (but not D.C.) is within two percentage points of that average. That's also right around the margin of error for the polls."

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Note Card #6 (3)

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"In a previous Gallup poll young people and women have even guessed that the number could be as high as 30 percent, proving that people aren't really good at estimating these kinds of things."

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Note Card #7 (4)

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This year presents a turning point in a global struggle for the right of as many as 600 million people around the world to be openly homosexual without fear of humiliation or violence.

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Note Card #8 (4)

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An international community of human rights activists have made hard-won gains for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights in traditionally conservative countries such as Spain and Argentina and rapidly changing societies like India.

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Note Card #9 (5)

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African Americans have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, colored, Negro, Afro-American, and black, as well as African American.

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Note Card #10 (5)

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Historically, the predominant attitude toward racial group membership in the United States has been that persons having any black African ancestry are considered to be African American. In some parts of the United States, especially in the antebellum South, laws were written to define racial group membership in this way, generally to the detriment of those who were not Caucasian. It is important to note, however, that ancestry and physical characteristics are only part of what has set black Americans apart as a distinct group.

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Note Card #11 (5)

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The first Africans in the New World arrived with Spanish and Portuguese explorers and settlers. By 1600 an estimated 275,000 Africans, both free and slave, were in Central and South America and the Caribbean area. Africans first arrived in the area that became the United States in 1619, when a handful of captives were sold by the captain of a Dutch man-of-war to settlers at Jamestown.

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Note Card #12 (5)

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Others were brought in increasing numbers to fill the desire for labor in a country where land was plentiful and labor scarce. By the end of the 17th century, approximately 1,300,000 Africans had landed in the New World.

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Note Card #13 (6)

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In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson failed to persuade Congress to pass a civil rights bill with a fair housing provision. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., generated the support needed to pass the bill two years later.

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Note Card #14 (6)

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The 1968 Fair Housing Act banned discrimination in the sale and rental of 80 percent of housing. It also contained anti-riot provisions and protected persons exercising specific rights--such as attending school or serving on a jury—as well as civil rights workers urging others to exercise these rights.

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Note Card #15 (7)

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Although more Americans agree on this issue, a generation-and gender-gap still remains. Sixty percent of Americans under 50 support same-sex marriage, but only four in ten of those over 50 feel the same. More than half of men are against legalizing marriage between gay or lesbian couples, but 57 percent of women are in favor of it.

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Note Card #16 (7)

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With 51 percent of respondents saying that same-sex marriages should be legal, it is the first time that a CNN poll has found majority support for same-sex marriage.

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Note Card #17 (8)

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On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting to win that right: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

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Note Card #18 (8)

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The leaders of this campaign did not always agree with one another--in fact, sometimes their disagreements threatened to derail their movement--but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.

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Note Card #19 (9)

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So far, of the more than 100 people who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, twelve have been women. In recent years, a greater percentage of the winners have been women.

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Note Card #19 (10)

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“Paradoxically… There was an eagerness to break old rules, defy tradition, and enjoy life. Victorian morals and a rigid code of properly sedate behavior were out—flappers, bobbed hair, jazz music, and automobiles set the tone for what was to become a decade-long party.”

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Note Card #20 (10)

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“Prohibition, many believed , would cure the country’s problems…Organized crime flourished. Bootleggers became rich almost overnight. Speakeasies sprang up in basements and behind drugstores in towns, small and large, across the nation. Rum-running, a dangerous and lucrative new business, was rampant. A huge supply of illegal liquor made its way across the border from Canada.”

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Note Card #21 (11)

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Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.

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Note Card #22 (11)

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The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

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Note Card #23 (11)

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Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience.

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Note Card #24 (12)

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The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.

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Note Card #25 (12)

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.

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Note Card #26 (12)

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The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.

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Note Card #27 (13)

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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Note Card #28 (13)

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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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Note Card #29 (14)

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One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population.

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In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given).

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Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. They are universal because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background. Inalienable because people’s rights can never be taken away.

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Indivisible and interdependent because all rights – political, civil, social, cultural and economic – are equal in importance and none can be fully enjoyed without the others. They apply to all equally, and all have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. They are upheld by the rule of law and strengthened through legitimate claims for duty-bearers to be accountable to international standards.