Southern Poverty Law Center

After the Civil War, the United States encountered a period of recreating America after all of the destruction from the war and incredible loss in the population, and focusing on the rights and liberties of all Americans as equal under the Constitution--particularly in rebuilding the South. Such equalities, however, were difficult for many to comprehend. The post-Reconstruction era is the period which lasted from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Post-Reconstruction consisted of…

Because prisons are extremely labor intensive, with approximately 65 to 70 percent of the costs of operating a prison going to staff salaries according to a Global Investment and Business Center report, reducing expenditures associated with operational costs would in turn lead to a more cost effective operation. This is possible as private firms typically use cheaper nonunion labor. The Adler School Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice reveals that the average private prison employee…

Republicans, an LGBTQ+ conservative group, stated that “the nod to conversion therapy was included at the urging of Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, which has been called an anti-L.G.B.T. extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” He further clarified this by explaining that “there are only two types of therapies for minors that are notable and that are controversial at present. One is ex-gay conversion therapy and the other is transgender hormone therapy,…

The Teaching Tolerance website as stated on their About Us tab was founded by the Southern Poverty Law Center to help prevent prejudice benahavis, to improve intergroup relations, and to ensure fair treatment for students in school. The three biggest resources that can be used by any educator to better plan and develop lessons for the classroom are: the various articles in the magazine tab, the professional development tab, and the classroom resources tab. The latter of the three provides the…

lived in Chester, Pennsylvania and at the time had “high rates of poverty, crime, and unemployment” (148). Alongside this social situation, Trina lived with her abusive father, seemed to be intellectually disabled, and grew to have many mental health problems. Trina accidentally killed two boys; she was then sentenced to life of imprisonment without the possibility of parole. For Trina, her “age [fourteen years old] mental illness, poverty, the abuse she had suffered, or … circumstances around…

things in general. Like there are some people that say “make America “white” again”. Saying those type of things is ridiculous. Ever since Trump won for president, people think that they can just be mean towards anybody for no reason. “The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 867 cases of hateful harassment or intimidation in the United states the 10 days after the November 8th election.” (Hate crimes after trump wins article)…

clinic will provide comprehensive health education related to contraceptive services and STD prevention. Also parents, schools, the church, and media will help make the community aware of the relationship between diseases and risk factors such as poverty, sexual abuse, substance abuse, violence, poor school performance, and dropout…

possibilities. Clarke and his salesmen would keep most of the $10 dollar initiation fee, so he hired hundreds of salesmen, mostly Protestant ministers, and sent them out across the country to sell the Klan. Soon the Klan was no longer narrowly Southern; law and order, prohibition and anti-Catholicism were added to its white supremacist beliefs, and it enrolled millions of Klansmen and Klanswomen. The aura of violence was part of the initial appeal — when you put on your robes, you were a…

There has been countless research on the increasing popularity framing concept in media and its application by the media. The concept of framing as it relates to media, is based on focusing on the mere essence of an issue or a certain event and then creating and molding the story in order to influence how the consumer processes the information. The framing theory was first put forth by Erving Goffman (Goffman,). Goffman stated that people will interpret what goes on around the world through…

bussing but then like Atlanta turned to a system of neighborhood schools to restore order, increasing “white flight” and residential segregation. The restoration of neighborhood schools remained just as heavily segregated as they were under Jim Crow law, but instead this process operated through de facto segregation rather than de…