The courts are being asked, yet again, to assess liability for urban racial segregation. Those who defend the status quo argue that observed urban racial patterns are the unintended results of self-interested individual behavior and, whatever the undesirability of these results, no one need be ...
Who ended the civil rights movement? Who refused school desegregation? Who mostly benefited from the civil rights movement? Who started the Common School Movement? Who organized the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama? Who enforces the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
John Hume, 83. The visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland. Aug. 3. Shirley Ann Grau, 91. A Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty ...
declining the application of a transgender woman on the grounds that such a contestant would be, you know,distracting. This week, Amy Schneider ended her winning streak onJeopardy!, the second longest in the show’s 56-year-history. When she was recognized in the stands at a Warriors game,...
One of the students had brought the entire CD in to do her song, so we ended class with this song. I asked each student to think about the meaning of this song and how it related to their own lives and their own empowerment. I’m passing that on to you, even as I ask the acade...
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‘God Save the Queen’. Had the 19th century church been the same hand-wringing chatterboxes we see today, then chattel slavery would have ended via some man’s reversible whim, rather than by the cleansing and compelling dictate of shed blood. Had the 20th century church not overcome the ...
Among dozens of significant battles throughout World War II was the Battle of Iwo Jima, during which time the Japanese island of Iwo Jima was taken over by the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy. After the invasion of Germany, WWII officially ended when President Harry Truman ordered the atomi...
It would be impossible to discuss the reconstruction period after the war without mentioning U.S. PresidentAndrew Johnson(1808-1875) who gave the South the lifeline it needed to recover and re-enforce its platform of racial segregation. However, the book is not a biography of Johnson and the...
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem in Modern Democracy. His study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal racial segregation in schools.7A lifelong foe of inequality, and supporter of wealth redistribution, Myrdal showed...