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Throughout the history of democracy, republics and civil governments, citizens would resist laws that they don't agree with, in the hopes that they change them. This positively impacts society. It allows the government to review their positions on laws because at the end of the day a government is made up of the people and should represent the views and well being of the citizens. Peaceful resistance can be seen though protests, petitions, writing your congressman, not obeying the law,…

In Lakota Woman, it tells a story about Mary Crow Dog who faces challenges with the Sioux tribe, and how she has a difficult time with her finding her identity and cultural background as a Sioux woman. Mary Crow Dog struggles with the identity of an Indian woman because of the domestic roles women had to play in the Native American culture. As a woman, Mary did not like how the white society would bring evilness to their Indian culture, and how the women would struggle to find their personal…

Comer Vann Woodward's most influential book was The Strange Career of Jim Crow, which explained that Jim Crow laws and segregation were relatively late developments and were not inevitable. Woodward’s book is proclaimed as having helped shape the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In his book, Woodward describes the idea of the “magical formula of white supremacy” that was used as a devise to regroup the white conservatives and white radicals through the disfranchisement of African…

In my last few weeks at Harpers Ferry, a man in his mid-fifties walked into the Provost Marshal’s office. He was a big man, maybe six foot four. Bald, overweight, wearing a red polo shit and sagging cargo pants with sunglasses pressed into his forehead. I was already talking to a family from the Carolinas interpreting the experiences of the town’s citizens after the war, when across the former slave states Provost Marshals were replaced by agents of the newly formed Freedman’s Bureau. They were…

The United States has always been known as the land of the free, where opportunity is available to anyone. However, throughout our country 's history, these principles the nation built upon have not always been upheld. The country 's “golden door” has remained open to those seeking better opportunities, but for those already living in the United States, the door was closed. Many groups of Americans have been oppressed, and not given the equal access to the liberties they were entitled. Following…

When systems are unfair and unjust, change agents must intervene to change the broken systems.(Mandell & Schram, pg ) One of the most influential system change efforts to occur in the history of the United States is the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1950’s through the 1960s. In focusing on the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Administration Era, I hope to construct an analysis on the root of poverty within the African American population, and the process put forward to change the…

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Dred Scott decision to refuse citizenship and constitutional rights to all African Americans, legally establishing the race as "subordinate, inferior beings whether slave or freedmen." During slavery, African Americans went through a plethora of mistreatment and separation. In the South, where slavery was most common, slaves would work long hours, for no pay while being mistreated. Plenty of white intellectuals tried to write articles and scholarly notes on…

In Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, she details the truth of America’s premeditated racial crimes against non-Whites who live in America. With a legacy of white supremacy, Alexander makes it clear that America started out with racism at its core, before democracy was even born. Furthermore, this racist hierarchal society thrives off of dehumanizing African people, based on skin color alone. In addition, by America emphasizing that whiteness is superior in regard to those labeled as…

turning point for civil rights socially in the US because of the reaction to it by the white population, such as the setup of the KKK (designed to reduce black people back to a non-human standard) as well as the segregation movement proposed by the Jim Crow Laws, that again forced Black Americans away from society and into further sub-standard conditions. This lack of social change in the US makes it clear the 13th amendment cannot be placed as a turning point for civil rights as no improvement…

Education and healthcare are two of the major factors in the African American community. African American children are not receiving quality healthcare and education because of the location of each. In the late 1950s education was not valued by the government for African Americans because of segregation. The difference in classrooms was astounding which shows the significance of how education was not an equal effort for African Americans and whites. Low wages and taxes are important in certain…