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2Nd Amendment, Aboriginal Rights, Affirmative Action, Death Penalty, Discrimination, Individual Rights, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 9/11, Animal Testing, Black Lives Matter, Bullying, Civil Disobedience, Cyber Bullying, Frederick Douglass, Freedom of Speech, Gender Equality, Gender Inequality, Homelessness, Human Trafficking, Martin Luther King, Animal rights, Cruelty to Animals, Daca, Feminism.
Who Was Rosa Parks? Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005) refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, which spurred on the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. The city of Montgomery had … Read more
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights Supreme Court case in which laws prohibiting interracial marriage was invalidated. The case arose when Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a one-year prison sentence in Virginia, for marrying each other. According to state laws, at the time, their … Read more
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005) refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a Alabama bus, which spurred on the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the … Read more
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. These protests were nonviolent but the people they were protesting against were violent to the nonviolent protesters. These protests led to the removement of Woolworth’s policy of racial segregation in Southern United States. The Greensboro sit-ins were not the first sit-ins … Read more
Civil liberties and civil rights are mechanical components that have influence on the way we live our lives. Each category can be applied in different situations, to identify different experiences for each individual. People in the US, for instance, have started to question whether democracy is worth fighting for as more instances are identified in … Read more
Ruby Bridges was born on September 8th, 1954 and is still living to this day. Today she is 63 years old. Ruby Bridges grew up on a farm and was born in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby Bridges was young she moved to New Orleans because they wanted to try to live a better life and … Read more
From the ballads of freedom fighters to the horrors of British Raj and the human rights abuses in Indian-occupied Kashmir, we’ve only learnt that living life under no tyranny & violence means independence. We need a serious reality check because liberation from savagery cannot precisely be termed as the independence of the nation. The human … Read more
Ruby Bridges was born on September 8th, 1954 and is still living to this day. Today she is 63 years old. Ruby Bridges grew up on a farm and was born in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby Bridges was young she moved to New Orleans because they wanted to try to live a better life and … Read more
Even though this case is always said as Brown vs. Board of Education, the real title is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. That would make one think that this case was about one person vs. the Topeka Kansas Board of Education, but this case was actually about several families in 4 states and … Read more
In the last thirty years we have seen a real emergence, divergence and development of feminist writing. Like any writing we care to label or group together there are elements that are worthy of further academic enquiry. In this essay I will be examining what constitutes the politics aspects of modern women’s writing – in … Read more
In her book “Poverty, Chastity, and Change”, the author Carole Garibaldi Rogers interviewed ninety-four nuns from forty different religious communities in North America. She gathered oral histories regarding the nun’s academic, religious, and emotional difficulties that were encountered throughout their lives. Each interview lasted a couple of hours and three basic questions were asked. “The … Read more
With the beginning of a seemingly endless war on terrorism, and a shaky United States economy, now hardly seems the time to examine our general policy towards all other nations, and developing nations in particular. The wreckage of the World Trade Center is still smoldering, and our troops are marching on Kabul as I write. … Read more
