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The NAACP, 2007.
This paper traces the history of the National Advancement for the Association of Colored People (NAACP) in advocating for the rights of African-Americans.
8,090 words (approx. 32.4 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 173.95
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This paper examines the history and development of the NAACP. The author describes the transition from the organization being focused on human rights to its current focus on civil rights. The paper gives a background history of the situation of African-Americans from the days of slavery to our times. W.E.B. DeBois' role in founding the organization is highlighted.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
History of the NAACP
Key Players of the NAACP
NAACP and Communism
Human Rights
Civil Rights
Internal Atruggles of the NAACP
Moving Rowards Civil Rights
Today
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"Since the days of slavery, African Americans have had to battle for rights that many people in the United States have been able to take for granted. The issue of slavery was put to rest many years ago, but the damage that the practice did to race relations is still a bruise on the hip of society as America works to provide true equality to those who reside in the states. If one were to trace the path of African American roots in the United States from the days of slavery until the 1960's, one would see a path filled with turmoil, angst, and hard earned victory in the area of civil rights for African Americans nationwide."
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NAACP, 1995.
This paper discusses the NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Founding in 1909, objectives, evolution to 1990s, successes, members, leadership, conflicts and scandals, growth and politics.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 7 sources, $ 119.95
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"The NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has been active since 1909 in its attempts to break legal ground and forge better opportunities for African Americans. The history, function, purpose, and current activities of the organization will be examined. It will be apparent that the NAACP stands as one of the progressive movement in America's major victories against legal, and thus political, oppression.
Early in 1909, some twenty persons met together in New York City for the purpose of utilizing the public interest in the Lincoln Centennial in behalf of African Americans, then known as colored people, or Negroes. Within a few weeks this number was enlarged to about fifty, one-third of whom were from other cities than New York. According to the NAACP's 1984 pamphlet ... "
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A Scholarly Review of the NAACP Web Site, 2006.
A review of the website of the National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper provides an overview and review of a professional web site administered and sponsored by the National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People. The paper looks at the objective of the site, the source of its funding, its discussion of criminal issues, its links to other sites (if such do in fact exist) and its user friendliness. The paper ultimately concludes that, while the official web site could perhaps be bolstered by links to other organizations offering comparable or complementary services to the black community, it nonetheless is easily navigable and delivers its message effectively.
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"The following three-page paper will briefly review the official web site of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The paper will look at the purpose/objective of the site as well as at the source of funding for the site (at least to the extent possible). The paper will likewise discuss the criminal justice issues given "play" on the web site in addition to discussing the navigability of the site. Not to be overlooked, some time will be devoted to looking at the relevant links found on the site (assuming, of course, that such links are actually present). "
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"In Struggle against Jim Crow" by Merline Pitre, 2003.
This paper reviews Merline Pitre's "In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957" (1999) by discussing the history of Jim Crow laws.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that state laws called Jim Crow laws required or permitted separation of the races and denied the right to votein spite of the Fifteenth Amendment, which was known as ?disfranchisement.? The author emphasizes that Lulu B. White was a female activist, an executive secretary of the Houston branch of the NAACP, and the state director of branches for the NAACP during the mid-20th century, when such activism was frequently met with white violence and retribution. The paper stresses that the life and accomplishments of Lulu B. White provide clear evidence that leaders are not born, but rather are made by the circumstances in which people find themselves.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Author?s Main Thesis
Scope of the Book
Subject
Time Period
Geographical Scope
Critique of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Jim Crow and How it Affected Lula B. White
Conclusion
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"The lingering effects of a failed Reconstruction were clearly apparent in this region of the country during this period in America?s history. According to the author, ?During the era of Jim Crow, in certain sections of this region, black males were expected to tip their hats in the presence of whites, even if they were walking on the opposite sides of the street. Well into the 1940s, railroad porters were required to pull down the window shades on the ?colored? side of passenger cards as the train passed through Grand Saline, a community twenty miles east of Elmo, to prevent upstanding white citizens from looking at black faces.? "
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Anne Moody, 1989.
Reviews the life of Anne Moody, who grew up poor in rural Mississippi & attained a leadership position in the NAACP & CORE.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 31.95
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"Autobiographical accounts reflect a personal view of history and historical movements, with the individual showing how they sought answers to the problems of their time based on their personal experiences and background. Anne Moody presents her view of the problems of her time and shows her answers to those problems in the reform movements she joined and the efforts she made to change the situation. This both reflects general trends in her time and also contrasts with the experiences of some other reformers of the age who had their own answers to the same problems.
Moody's background leads her to the Civil Rights Movement and to such organizations as the NAACP and CORE. She grew up in the rural South as a young woman both black and poor. She experienced the racism of the time directly and (...)"
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Anne Moody, 1989.
Biographical sketch of Anne Moody, a black activist for civil rights, member of the NAACP, & CORE.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 31.95
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"Autobiographical accounts reflect a personal view of history and historical movements, with the individual showing how they sought answers to the problems of their time based on their personal experiences and background. Anne Moody presents her view of the problems of her time and shows her answers to those problems in the reform movements she joined and the efforts she made to change the situation. This both reflects general trends in her time and also contrasts with the experiences of some other reformers of the age who had their own answers to the same problems.
Moody's background leads her to the Civil Rights Movement and to such organizations as the NAACP and CORE. She grew up in the rural South as a young woman both black and poor. She experienced the racism of the time directly and intimately, and she (...)"
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"Brown vs. Board of Education".
This paper discusses the famous Supreme Court public school desegregation case, "Brown vs. Board of Education," the first time social science evidence was allowed in a court of the United States.
2,870 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper explains that the only way to overturn "Plessy vs. Ferguson," which was the precedent set in 1896 that allowed separate but equal school systems for blacks and whites, was to prove legitimately by presenting valid evidence, which supported the NAACP challenge, that separate could not be equal. The author points out that Thurgood Marshall, then lawyer for the NAACP, turned to social scientist Kenneth B. Clark, who gathered convincing evidence that ultimately proved segregation in public schools was a direct violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The paper explains that experiments demonstrated that, as a colored child observed the society in which he or she lived, that child associated whiteness with superior advantage, achievement, progress, and power, all of which were perceived essential to being successful in the competitive American culture.
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"In order to convince the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall knew he would have to present some form of scientific evidence that could not leave room for a contradictory argument. So, Dr. Clark and his team devised a foolproof experiment to determine the influence of skin color as a factor in racial identification of Negro preschool children. Samples of children from three different age groups were tested: three, four, and five years of age. Also, the subjects were divided into three categories on the basis of skin color: light, medium, and dark. Placed in front of each child were two identical dolls: one doll was white and the other was colored."
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois, 2006.
A comparative analysis of the work of African-American rights leaders Marcus Mosiah Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois.
2,395 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper constructively analyses the philosophies of African-American leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), to that of W.E.B Dubois and his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It looks at how Marcus Mosiah Garvey had fierce militant philosophies while W.E.B Dubois took more of a passive attitude.
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"Du Bois and the Niagara Movement did not last very long. They could not get a mass group of African Americans to follow and support their agenda. After the fall of the Niagara Movement, Du Bois joined the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopled). Members of the NAACP were from various backgrounds. There were African American members, white members, and even Jewish members. Unlike the UNIA, the main focus of Du Bois and the NAACP was to formulate plans on providing legal enforcement for African American Constitutional Rights. "
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Gaines v. Canada (1938), 2007.
An in-depth look at the case of Gaines v. Canada (1938).
3,088 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the case of Gaines v. Canada (1938), the first case to directly challenge school segregation. The paper reports that Lloyd Gaines filed the petition for admission to the University of Missouri Law School.The paper goes on to say that the decision in the Gaines case focused on the practice of southern states to meet the provision of "equality" by awarding out-of-state tuition scholarships to black students. In lieu of providing equal facilities, blacks were expected to use the scholarships to defray costs associated with attending northern institutions. Southern states universally ignored the Court's ruling that the scholarships did not equalize the conditions.
Outline:
Introduction
Post-Verdict Era
Effort Towards Legal Transformation
Influence and Involvement of NAACP
Does Providing for the Legal Education of Missouri Blacks in Other States Satisfy Equal Protection?
Conclusion
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"Equal protection is a subsidiary of human rights, and is to be provided to all, irrespective of any preference, discrimination and likeness. The system that fails to uphold the notion of equal protection is under moral and legal obligation to ensure the implementation of equal protection draft within the system. It is to be considered a malpractice, if the system admits the failure of the provision on its behalf, but recommends the complainant to avail the provisions for the equal protection from another system. It is wrong to believe that equal protection can be provided to residents of particular region, and be avoided to another class of it. Therefore if rights are to be provided, then these rights have to be provided to all without any discriminatory attitude. A resident and practitioner of particular system, in under no obligation to avail his or her fortunes from other system, running at parallel. Instead, it is the responsibility of the system itself to broaden the scope of its moral and legal conduct, so that the grievances of the complainant can be addressed and resolved, in accordance with the sufficiently elaborated parameters of the law, within legal pretext. "
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Milliken v. Bradley (1974), 2008.
A review of a class action suit filed in August 1970 in the US that alleged that the Detroit school system was racially segregated as a result of policy.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews the case of "Milliken v. Bradley" (1974), a class action suit filed by parents of students in the Detroit Michigan school system and the Detroit Branch of the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) against the Michigan State Board of Education and various other state officials of the state of Michigan, alleging that the Detroit school system was racially segregated as a result of policy, in particular, a state statute known as Act 48. The paper gives the background of the case, a summary of both the plaintiff's and the defendant's arguments as well as the court's ruling. The author also provides his opinion on the case.
Outline:
Facts of the Case
Summary of Plaintiff's Argument
Summary of Defendant's Argument
The Supreme Court's Decision
Significant Concurring Opinions
Significant Dissenting Opinions
My Decision on the Case
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"I understand why the families of the children in the suburban schools outside the city of Detroit felt like they did nothing wrong and should therefore not be sent to schools in Detroit. At this time in history I believe that whites felt secure inside the suburbs and did not want to interact with the African American community. I believe that this type of feeling needs to be deemed unacceptable because after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the people needed to realize that racial desegregation is indeed moving in a positive direction and they should join in on it. I think the white people may have been afraid of the African American community but without them ever coming together there would be no way that they would ever realize there is really nothing to be afraid of."
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Confederate Flag Controversy, 2008.
A discussion regarding free speech and the controversial symbol of the Confederate flag.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines the issue of the display of the Confederate flag, an intermittent source of debate in the US for many years. The paper takes a particular look at one case in the late 1990s when controversy over the display of the flag on top of the South Carolina State House in Columbia led to a nationwide boycott instigated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against the state. The paper then makes the argument that individuals ought to be allowed to wear or display symbols containing the Confederate flag motif as a simple matter of their free speech rights, both on and off school campuses, or in any other venue.
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"In 2006, the Southern Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit civil rights group, filed suit to permit several students at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee to wear Confederate flag images on clothing. Racial tensions at the school nearly resulted in violent altercations at one point, resulting in a temporary lockdown. The students involved in the suit complained that black students were permitted to wear images of Malcolm X and related symbols without undergoing the same restrictions as the white students, thus raising the familiar argument of the double standard (Watson.) The Southern Legal Resource Center, which focuses on such cases, is also involved in a similar case in Texas, where several students at a high school near Dallas sued for the right to carry purses with the Confederate flag symbol on them, after they had been banned by administration officials. It seem clear that the dispute between administration policies and student rights is a heated one, and has implications beyond that of one particular symbol which some may find offensive. If students are in fact to be prepared for assuming the full rights and responsibilities of adulthood, as has often been argued, it seems reasonable to respect their rights on such a seemingly trivial matter."
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Thurgood Marshall, 2006.
A review of Thurgood Marshall's life and achievements.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper looks at the life of Thurgood Marshall and his involvement with the civil rights movement. It traces his career as a lawyer with the NAACP, from his appointment to the Court of Appeals to his appointment to the Supreme Court.
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"Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the grandson of a slave and graduated from an all-Black high school there. He attended Lincoln University in Chester Pennsylvania the oldest Black college in America and married his ..."
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Civil Rights Movement, 2003.
Examines the role of litigation from 1954-1959.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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Covers legal challenges to racial iniquities, historical perspective including 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, and NAACP actions on the legal basis to challenge segregation and doctrine of separate-but-equal.
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"The battle to gain civil rights for all Americans regardless of their race - and later their gender - was fought on a number of different fronts and by peaceful soldiers of all colors and all ages. This paper examines the role that litigation played in ..."
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The "Black Cabinet" Of President Franklin D Roosevelt, 2002.
Examines FDR's informal "black cabinet," the people who served in it and its importance to national culture.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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Examines FDR's informal "black cabinet," the people who served in it, and its importance to national culture. New Deal reforms & black support. Black leaders who advised FDR. The President's motive in using black advisers: to use their ideas to remedy racism & to rely on their opinion on a wide number of other issues. Diversity of "black cabinet." Contribution of educator Mary McLeon Bethune & others. Gains made by the NAACP, National Urban League & National Council of Negro Women as a legacy of the "black cabinet."
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"With the entrance of each new administration we now hear about the importance of making the president?s cabinet ?look like America?. That resemblance is never actually achieved, of course, if only because each American has a different idea of what it is that America really looks like. But amid the complex politics of inclusion ? at least when a Democrat is in the White House it is easy to overlook how far it is that we have actually come just over the course of the 20th century in terms of acknowledging that the differing experiences of different racial groups are all valid and that they must be included in an administration if the country is to be well run.
Many people deserve credit for bringing African-American voices into the mainstream of the national political process. But one of the people who deserves a fair measure of credit is often..."
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