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    Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964, and both under the Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact. Dunlap feels that he has been discriminated during the interview process. The district court concluded that TVAs subjective hiring process permitted racial bias against the plaintiff and other black job applicants. Tennessee Valley Authorities was found guilty of discrimination against the plaintiff. The Title Vii of the Civil Right Act of 1964 enforces the constitutional right to vote, to confer

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    Response Paper #4 The folk music of the Civil Rights Movement “came out of tradition, common experience, and generations of resistance” (Dunaway 2010: 140). The songs used throughout the movement derived from the shared experiences and struggles of African Americans while connecting “the gentle, idealistic world of folk music and the integrationist world of civil rights” (Dunaway 2010: 145). Songs, such as “We Shall Overcome”, were put through the folk process, where a song is passed on and alterations

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    for domestic change writing a manifesto popularly known as the Port Huron Statement on June 15 of 1962. Students desired change and became active in the Civil Rights Movement in hopes to change the attitudes of the citizens in America. The Port Huron Statement reflected ideas of these newly conscious middle American youth, increased Civil right activism, and created the New Left in regards to form a more democratic society. The conscious youth yearned for a more favorable democracy. Students

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    Over the years, equality has enhanced due to the improvement of presidential classifications. Up until the election of 2017, equality and civil rights have improved. Majority of the people have gained their civil rights, while equality has become more superior. There has been some complications with new rights. Society also lacks a supply of inspiring authority figures lately, more than in the past.     For instance, Donald Trump has recently been elected president of the United States. One of his

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    Civil liberties can be defined as the protection from our own government actions. While civil rights can be defined to make sure all the liberties are fair and equal for all. For example a few civil liberties include freedom of speech, right to vote and the right to privacy right to bear arms. The Amendments then make sure that all those liberties are fair for all by adding clauses. An example is that the 1st Amendment has a clause of freedom of speech but then a clause was added to protect freedom

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    The post 1945 Civil Rights movement, also known as the “Second Reconstruction”, began its trek to equality by challenging the education system. Civil rights activists believed a decent education was a right reserved for all. They saw schooling as their doorway to begin “socializing” white children at a young age to the idea of being around and working alongside black children. More importantly, education readies people for the working world, and activists believed integrating schooling would allow

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    definitions of civil rights and civil liberties depending on who is asked. As stated in the textbook, civil rights are the protections of people in historically disadvantaged groups from discriminatory actions. Also stated in the textbook, civil liberties are the basic rights that every person should have in their lives such as the right of speech or the right to protest the government and more that can be found in the Bill of Rights. These are the definitions of civil rights and civil liberties as

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    Chicano movement, also known as El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement that began in the 1960s with a primary objective of attaining empowerment and self-determination as well as rejecting and confronting the history of racism, discrimination and disenfranchisement of the Mexican-American community and was much more militant than movements prior to it. Some issues the Chicano movement dealt with were farm workers’ rights, political rights, better education and restoration of land grants. Additionally

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    revolution. Two of these included the Civil Rights and anti-war Vietnam movements which both emerged at the same time that the Cold War unfolded. Both of these movements overlapped in numerous ways; they both struggled with the government trying to silence them to keep an image, with media distortion, not having a clear main focus, and more. They both related political struggles to domestic ones. The focus is on two things. The first being the look at the Civil Rights movement under the heat of the Cold

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    I noted that the U.S. civil liberties, as well as, U.S. civil rights are generally located in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, as well as, the Fourteenth Amendment. The distinction between civil liberties and civil rights is blurred since the concepts are used interchangeably, even though they refer to different kinds of guaranteed protections. Civil liberties are protections against government actions. Whereas civil rights refer to positive actions governments

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