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    Privilege plays a major role in the novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird “by Harper Lee. Set in 1930’s during the great depression in the southern part of America where racism is predominant and still is in some parts of the world, portrays the lesson of “Privilege is real from race to baking cakes. Sometimes you’re born into it, and sometimes you’re born with it”. The bitter reality of this lesson is that it still exists and is hard to come to an end. First of all according to the novel the author’s point

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    particular eras American faced proved social inequality to be a major struggle some citizens had to deal with in everyday life: Industrialization and Urbanization Era, New South Era, and the Civil Rights Era. Although minorities and inferior races, genders, and religious beliefs were looked down upon and treated terribly, the citizens belonging to those inferior groups kept fighting for their own feeling of equality and freedom. Social inequality began significantly affecting America in a negative

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    become segregated based on an individual’s gender. Those in society who stand up against restroom segregation face public humiliation and invoke elements of fear in the general public. As Public Administers in a local public library we hold an obligation to the public to confront the

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    rights of one man are threatened,” he believed in equal rights and wanted America to fulfill what he believed. The speech was given because there was a rise in conflict in between whites and blacks and the courts, “Many Americans still supported segregation and were reluctant to acknowledge racial injustice. However, months of escalating conflict that included massive demonstrations, police repression, and even deaths of activists and other citizens, compelled Kennedy to take a

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    finding the back. From where the child comes from, Jim Crow laws segregate the blacks from the whites. This poem has a lot of depth and meaning, although it sounds very simple. It also tells us the mindset of most blacks in the South in the days of segregation. I chose this poem because the boy’s innocence was touching and its deep meaning was very powerful. In the beginning, the child asks, “Where is the Jim Crow section on this merry-go-round, mister, cause I want to ride?” in lines 1-3. Jim Crow

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    Whenever one hears of segregation, they tend to write it off as a relic of the past. The Emancipation Proclamation as well as Civil Rights reforms further solidify this idea for many Americans that race relations have finally abated, and blacks and whites are equal. However for most minorities, segregation is still prevalent in everyday society in areas one least expects it. This is the case in New York City. One presumes that New York City - a sanctuary city that is deeply rooted in libertarianism

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    Racial Discrimination

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    leader, Martin Luther King. This led to Elliott’s realization that it was time to take a more proactive approach to teaching discrimination. From the 1870s to the end of the 19th century, racial segregation had been distinctively prominent when the Jim Crow laws was enforced across America, mandating segregation in all public facilities, particularly distinct in the southern states (Fuller, 2008). This elicited the emergence of the civil rights movement in which Martin Luther King brought awareness and

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    Children From the 1880s to about the mid 1960s segregation had taken over American cities and towns. Segregation is the act of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. In America, African Americans were segregated from White people. Segregation was a result of the abolishment of slavery twenty-five years before. Whites still wanted to feel superior to the Blacks, and without slavery to chain them down, they decided to begin segregation by establishing Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws

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    “‘You come against me with hatred, repression, and violence. I come against you in the name of god’” as Bree Newsome illegally removes the confederate flag from the capital of South Carolina in 2015. The confederate flag symbolizes racial segregation and Bree was a colored woman who did not like that the flag showed support of this. She acted upon what she aspired was equal to the diverse citizens in America. Correspondingly, Sophocles’ play Antigone was along the same lines as reality. Bree Newsome’s

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    Racial Segregation “Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.” This is an important and powerful quote said by the late Malcolm X. From 1849-1950 segregation took place for a little over a century. Just 4 years after that, in Brown v. Board of Education the supreme court outlawed segregation in public schools. This was the starting point in putting an end to segregation nationwide. However, is segregation really abolished? Or

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