Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Impact on Civil Rights Movement The decision from the Brown v. Board of Education case advanced racial integration first in education, and eventually in public spaces, 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…

Thomas Jefferson stated, “That government is best which governs the least...” The Progressive movement theorist may not have agreed with Jefferson on that contention. The Progressive movement was a concern with reform. Which reforms? Short answer all of them; Progressive’s championed women’s suffrage, racial equality, worker rights, corporate greed, and political corruption. Progressives call for active governmental intervention to establish laws, ordinances and policies as corrective measures.…

“Felony is the new N-word. They don’t have to call you nigger anymore”(Kilgore). The N-word was a label given to African-Americans to serve as a verbal means of oppression. In similar ways, the word felon is now being used as a means of keeping African Americans out of work, reinforcing negative stereotypes, and perpetuating the white-black class divide. Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, introduced the preceding quote when arguing that…

this paper is to analyze sexual harassment and its relation to power. Sexual harassment in the workplace has existed since the entrance of 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…

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…

Video: “Rape in the Fields” in retrospective. Frontline, Univision, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting partnered a year long investigation, to tell “the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families”. Their collaboration resulted on the hour-long documentary “Rape in the Fields” that aired June 25, 2013. The video shines a light one the…

recent events. Affirmative Action should be steps to overcome segregation like this. Minorities’ feel as if they are no equal to getting a job or going to an Ivy League university to the majority because of certain stereotypes. Even though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned job discrimination, it still seems as if minorities have to prove themselves to be just like or even better than the majority now a days. In conclusion, equality of opportunity, equality of condition, equality of result, de…

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…

instituted or absorbed into the social fabric of American culture. Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman were all aware of this dilemma. The origins of affirmative action stems from sociopolitical disputes and institutional reforms in the U.S. during the 1940s, 1950s and1960s (Sugrue, 1998). Affirmative…

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,…