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In 1865, slavery was abolished in the United States. Due to the 15th Amendment in 1869, African Americans were no longer denied voting rights based off their skin color. In 1954, in the Brown v. Board of education case, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all laws allowing segregation and discrimination in public locations based off skin color, race, religion, or national origin; including the Jim Crow Laws. The first African American,…

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter featuring Kendrick Lamar sang and rapped Freedom released in 2016 and Niggas Wit Attitudes consisting of: Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, The D.O.C, and Arabian Prince, also known as N.W.A composed Fuck Tha Police released in 1988 both songs protesting police brutality against African-Americans in the United States of America. Both Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A express their disfavor towards the justice system through their music. Police…

In chapter three, “Black Faces in High Places”, Taylor discusses the rise of Black political power and its consequences for the Black poor and working class. Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society programs, between 1965 and 1972, created many job opportunities for Black workers. African Americans became wealthy enough to “live in spacious homes, buy luxury goods, travel abroad on vacation, spoil their children- to live, in other words, just like well-to-do white folks” (81). The emergence of…

From 1848 to 1920, the discriminative laws of the United States were tested when women came together to fight for their right to vote (Paxton, Hughes NP). The Women’s Suffrage Movement is seen as one of the greatest progressive movements in women’s history. Although this movement had an extremely positive effect on the future of politics and equal rights, there were numerous negative effects on the suffragists because of it. Suffragists then had to live their lives alongside this movement, which…

Harry S. Truman once said, “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” Ever since I was young (about ages three and four) I relied on my courage, determination and imagination to overcome difficulties in a world of psychoactive medications. Specifically they were for ADD and ADHD. The meds ended up being prescribed to me until my eighth grade year, and after that they were substituted for mood stabilizing,…

Ability grouping has the potential to completely revolutionize education today. Ability grouping, which places children with peers of similar skill levels, has long been controversial. This, as well as similar processes known as cluster grouping and tracking, became widely debated in the the 1990s. For several years after the controversy, the idea of ability grouping was not mentioned. However, schools have started using ability grouping increasingly in the past few years in the hopes to improve…

It is just to say that for many decades, way before we were free the “ flowering” of our nation was not so sunny, being dictated by masters, institutions and politics. The rural life was around the 1770 's through the 1940 's following the urban life which is present day. The slave period was full of experiences, where the experiences of Black people are both similar and different to the rural and urban life. The rural Back belt was in the south, in which Blacks were forced into a molded…

movement.” This organization originally began back in 2012 after the shooting of 17-year-old Treyvon Martin. This was one of the many cases where someone has died for no reasonably explainable reason other than for being black. On February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot 17-year-old Treyvon Martin on the left side of his chest. Zimmerman had stated that he had fired at Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman was on duty at the time as the neighborhood watch when he saw…

Higher Education To begin with, this essay deals with two authors and their opinions about higher education. Sandford J Ungar is the president of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland . He wrote “The new liberal arts”, in this essay he clarified the misperceptions of obtaining a liberal arts degree. The second author, Charles Murray works at an American enterprise institute, conservative think tank in Washington, DC. He wrote” Are too many people going to college? ” . He talks about who…

Suger maple(Acer saccharum) Aceraceae/ Maple family sometimes called rock maple or hard maple, it is one of the largest hardwoods that is wide spreaded in western Canada. Sugar maple is common associtated with those common types: Acer negundo,manitoba maple Acer ginnala,amur maple Acer sacharrinum,silver maple Tree with overall up to 35 m tall, long straight trunk, usually branch-free for 2/3rds of its height. Leaves: Simple leaves, oppositely arranged and they’re flat, with three or five…