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elected to political offices. Nevertheless, the emergence of white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, helped to enact unjust and discriminatory laws. All of the process that America was making came to a halt. Hurtful racial stereotypes were perpetuated in order to keep discriminating laws in place. These laws, called the Jim Crow laws, kept people of different races from living in the same neighborhoods, going to the same school, and even eating in the same restaurants. “You went to…

United States and Central America. It is the 14th largest nation in the world. Mexico is a land of extremes, it has high mountains, terrains and deep canyons in the center of the country, beautiful beaches along its Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. rivers in Mexico include Rio Grande In north and Usumacinta on its northern and southern borders with Grijalva, Balsas, Panuco and Yaqui in the interior. Mexico has extensive coastlines, covering 9,500 kilometers (5903 miles). In Mexico the altitude…

According to the National Gang Center (2012), Nearly 50% of all reported gang crimes between 2011 and 2012 were that of the violent nature (National Gang Center, 2012). And some of these violent acts involved innovent bystanders. A major issue with living in gang communites is the chance of getting mistaken for a gang member and paying with your…

On the other hand, no one wants to consider large masses of people who broke the law to gain entry to a country. The increase in illegal immigration provides for the U.S. criminal justice system. The most obvious form of crime that illegal immigrants bring to the U.S. is often the most overlooked: the immigration itself. It is a crime that is committed by millions of immigrants yearly. By staying in America, they are spending each second inside the U.S. borders doing an illegal act. If we grant…

Christian organization, although in modern times Klan groups are motivated by a variety of theological and political ideologies. At the end of the civil war the Klan’s started their reconstruction and quickly mobilized as a vigilante group to intimidate southern- black and any whites who helped them , their purpose was to prevent them from enjoying basic civil rights. Bobby Person of Moore County, North Carolina, was the intended victim of this Klan terrorism. 53 After working for years as a…

One group that was the hardest hit from this law way young unskilled workers. The teen and entry level unskilled workers could no longer compete in the labor market because they were inefficient. The other groups that were more hurt were women and non-white workers because they all faced challenges…

After reviewing the current list of issued posted on the American Civil Liberties Union’s website the category of most personal interest was LGBT Rights. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. ACLU’s website also breaks LGBT rights down into smaller categories regarding parenting, relationships, and youth just to name a few. People of all ages and religions classifying under LGBT have suffered from violations of their human rights. Curiosity was drawn to these topics, as…

after the introduction of "reemployment service center" throughout the country have established their core functions is to protect the minimum wage of state-owned enterprises laid-off workers and help them achieve re-employment. From 1998 to 2004, 19.4 million laid - off workers of 21.6 million state - owned enterprises were re - employed. The informal employment pattern of the laid - off workers, which is based on the Re - employment Service Center, is regarded by some scholars as a…

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. The secret society, the KKK- The Ku Klux Klan- was founded 1866 in Tennessee and extended in almost every southern state by 1870. The Klan became a medium for supremacy of whites and the southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies focused on creating political and economic rights for blacks (HISTORY). The KKK exists as a result of when black slaves were freed in the US.…

problems are: The Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family, Folk Nation, Mexican Mafia and MS 13. The Aryan Brotherhood which is also known as the Brand or AB is a violent white supremacist group and national crime syndicate. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the gang was founded in San Quentin State Prison, California in 1964 by white supremacists Barry Milles and Tyler Bingham as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons, and is today’s oldest, largest…