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The Beginning Of World War II And The Present Decade

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Wajdi Kassas Final Exam: Between the beginning of World War II and the present decade, the United States underwent significant reform through key legislative acts, which addressed race relations, poverty, and gender. Explain these different categories of reform, their early proponents, their evolution into legislation, and whether or not this legislation truly addressed the issues. There have been several historically substantial legislative acts passed after World War II. The most significant acts of these were acts that were aimed at three main objectives; to eliminate racial discrimination within the country, to bring equality among the American citizens, and to provide all Americans with the freedom to vote, an integral right afforded to individuals by the Constitution. These were issues that engulfed the majority of peoples concerns at the time, and therefore needed to be taken care of. In the coming paragraphs I will identify and discuss three of these acts and how they came to be and how they have affected the American society to date. The first act I will discuss is that of Brown vs. the Board of Education. In Topeka, Kansas in the 1950s, schools were segregated by race. This particular case took on segregation within school systems, or the separation of white and black students within public schools. Up until this case, many states had laws establishing separate schools for white students and another for black students. This landmark case made those laws

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