Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

housing, and transportation. Brown tried to address past inequalities, promoted equal opportunities in public education, and extend equal protections of law for racial minorities. As a result, Brown became known for more than an education policy case. Brown v. Board of Education paved the way for future congressional legislation and Supreme Court decisions such as the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The 1957 Civil Rights Act would not have passed civil rights legislation when it did without the Brown v.…

percent, while whites only rose 17 percent, with an arrest ratio of 4 to 1(Mitchell). The War on Drugs targets inner city neighborhoods, a social class that is sometimes left with no other means of income. “The decline of legitimate employment opportunities in the inner cities increased incentives to sell drugs”(Graff). These neighborhoods are poverty filled; African-Americans become targets of the policy by default. Even though these African-American males are not violent offenders, they often…

women into this setting. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act deal with sexual harassment in the workplace. Women were undermined and considered unworthy of many positions. Therefore, men in superior positions took advantage of their power. Ultimately, workplaces had to establish stricter rules to provide a safe workplace for women. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is responsible for…

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry Alveda King once stated, “Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit” (Brainy Quotes). In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family lives in South Side Chicago and faces racial discrimination. The entire family…

The video shines a light one the agricultural industry nation wide, and sexual harassment and assault perpetuated on women. The most atrocious aspect of this story is that no rape or assault chargers have come to futurity. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC) the federal…

Equality of opportunity differs many people are not born with that lifestyle; they have to work harder in school to get in an Ivy League university, they have to work overtime to become a manager. I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth, I have always struggled…

Women deserve equal opportunities for equal work. The debate of gender-based wage imbalance, commonly referred to as the wage gap, has been the subject of large debates; “Congress first addressed the issue more than four decades ago in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mandating an ‘equal pay for equal work’ standard, and addressed it again the following year in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act” (Pay 3-32). On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act…

The fallacy of meritocracy holds no true weight when considering years of gatekeeping, social inequalities and discriminatory practices perpetrated against poor young African Americans. There can never be a colorblind society if biased SAT’s, affirmative action and multicultural competency programs fail to be effective on university campuses across the nation. The notion of diversity is only an idea in theory, never to be fully instituted or absorbed into the social fabric of American culture.…

Reinhold Niebuhr was a Civil Rights ethicist. From Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 to late 1968, Niebuhr published articles and editorials, and held public conversations interpreting the Civil Rights Movement’s ongoing actions to abolish juridical segregation and anti-black discrimination. As with the movement itself, these writings and discourses exhibit moments of optimism, celebration, misfire, disappointment, and reassessment. Niebuhr engages in what might called moral publicity,…

impact. The fourth problem Jensen writes about it’s: “the endpoint of the logic behind simple living as a political act is that we will cause the least destruction possible if we are dead”. As I stated before, it’s inevitably for humans to cause destruction. But thanks to small changes and culture shifting, we are able to minimize harms. All in all, living simply as a political act may not change the world on its own, but it is a symbolic start to a larger…