Ballot access

Among the grievances were exclusion from a hotel dining room; refusal of admission to a New York City opera; segregation to lower-quality seats in a theater; and removal from a train car set aside for white women. All of these indignities were violations of rights enumerated in the 1875 legislation. The Supreme Court analyzed these cases in view of the Fourteenth Amendment and concluded the Amendment was not designed to apply to private citizens or private organizations, but only to the federal…

1. Why does America have so much “nonsense” and “irrationality” in our criminal justice programs and policies? What is the role of public opinion, the media, social movements, political initiative, and science in America’s criminal justice policy-making process? Most crime control policies/programs within today’s criminal justice system are irrational; not all, but most crime control ideas are based on belief(s) rather than facts and data. It’s interesting to note that both liberals and…

Nereida Lopez-Gollas History 17B Fall 2014 Tuesday September 30, 2014 Essay on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Have you ever wonder how our country was in the early twentieth century before, with its hierarchies and social rules? The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, is based and expresses the factories and day to day details of the wage of laborers life and the attack of capitalism. The Jungle starts off with the marriage of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, who just arrived to Packingtown from…

On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was chosen leader of the United States He was the first African American to be chosen to that office. In the articles "My President Was Black" formed by Ta-Nehisi Coates and "The Obama Legacy: A Promise of Hope" by Gary Westphalen and Serena Marshall they discuss the inheritance of Obama. They had various resemblances yet various qualifications all through their articles however particular things developed. They both consider Obama and his…

himself as African American. The transition from chattel slavery to access to the highest office and most powerful position in the free world marks an undeniable demonstration of the American concept of social equality. Although the narrative of African American slaves begins in the period of Reconstruction in 1865. Then the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 gives the former slaves the beginnings of social equality through access to the ballot box. Resulting in the first African Americans elected…

“Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that” -Nikki Reed. Youth voter turnout has begun to decrease in participation. This usually pertains to people in early to mid twenties and under. A question that we need to ask ourselves is what are the reasons as to why some youth don’t vote? One could say there isn’t a simple answer; there are many reasons youth decide not to vote. The…

Anthony stood up was by creating the purse. In Anthony's time man did not have access to many jobs and once married they could not open a checking account, rent a place to live or sue anyone as these things were for a man to deal with and were his right. Any income that a woman earned, if she was lucky enough to acquire a job, was…

The Voting Rights Act promptly began after the Civil Rights Act of 1960. The act was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower and it became the platform for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1960 Civil Rights Act was enabled in order to protect the right to vote for African-Americans It established penalties against anyone who threatened or attempted to deny any African-American to vote. It wasn’t such a success in itself, but it did build a bridge to possibility. Such possibility was furthered by…

The Nineteenth Amendment and the women’s rights movement were turning points in history because they challenged the previous notions of women’s voices and led to women being treated as though they are human beings. The women’s rights movement was an amalgamation of things, each contributing to its origins. The Nineteenth Amendment was the most major result of the suffrage efforts. The Nineteenth Amendment was important because it gave a voice to women which they had not previously had and…

rules while uses it. “Californians are set to decide whether to make recreational marijuana use legal, as other Western states have done, after the California Secretary of State's office said on Tuesday the issue could be put to voters in the November ballot” (O’Brien). Californians are trying to legalize marijuana but they have to go through Congress and the government. It is also hard for them to decide because of the other people to worry about, like underage children and the people who do…