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  • Significant Effect On The Voting Rights Act
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    Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was one of the most significant laws passed in the last century. The act insured the right to vote for African Americans who had been discriminated against ever since 1870, at least so far as de jure segregation is concerned, under the 15th Amendment. The general importance of this act, however, is more clearly seen as one looks at the broad effects and consequences of this act. After this act was passed, America essentially became the demo...
  • Wpa And The Federal Emergency Relief Act
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt brought the new deal in to Americans life in the early thirties. Its purpose was to deal with the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. The 'forgotten Americans' were the ones who needed the new deal to benefit them. These people were the blacks, women, immigrants, and the many people who suffered from poverty. Unemployment was one of the biggest issues to strike the 'forgotten Americans. ' The...
  • White Race
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    Apartheid is not a new thing. Ever since Dutch colonists landed in 1652, "Blacks" and "Whites" have lived apart in South Africa. Officially started in 1948 when the Afrikaner Nationalist party came to power, apartheid is a system of racial laws devised to "Preserve and promote a white majority over a black majority". It has a lot of opposition and it led to an international boycott of South Africa because of it. When the Dutch first landed and established a strong colony there, they got on relat...
  • Sammy Davis
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    Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy Davis, Jr. was born in Harlem on December 8, 1925, to Elver a Sanchez, a chorus girl, and Sam Davis, a dancer. He was raised by his father and grandmother. His father was in an act with Will Mastin, who was a close friend of the family. At a young age, Sammy joined the act as a singer and dancer. They were known as the 'Will Mastin Trio'. It was not the best job, but it put food on the table. Sammy tried to join the army when Pearl Harbor was bombed, but he was too young. ...
  • Known As Jack Black
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    I. INTRO Me and my brother Kyle, we were walking down this long and lonesome road, when all of a sudden there shined a shiny teacher, in the middle of the road, and she said, write the best speech in the world, or I'll eat your soul. If you haven't figured it out already I chose to do my speech on the great Thomas Black or better known as Jack Black. Actor, comedian, singer songwriter, and lead vocalist for tenacious D. How many people really know anything bout Jack Black, other than he has been...
  • Whites And Non White Blacks Group Areas Act
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    Between the 1950's and 1970's, the lives of Africans were changed greatly by the policy of Apartheid. Apartheid laws affected the social lives of Africans by limiting whom they could marry or have relationships with, where they lived, and the conditions of their homes. Apartheid laws aimed to keep the white race 'pure' and to separate the ethnic groups. The 'Group Areas Act' (1950) separated blacks, coloured's and whites into distinct areas. It sought to keep blacks inferior and place them into ...
  • Hudson's Argument Against Race
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    Along Racial Lines By David MIcheal Hudson Along Racial Lines By David MIcheal Hudson In Hudson's ambitious study he identifies two major temporal consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA): one good, one bad. First, the VRA, part of President Johnson's Great Society initiative, increased the democratic participation of blacks by ensuring them equal access to voting booths in Southern states. Second, racist intimidation in the form of invidiously administered literacy tests, constitutional...
  • Separate Amenities Act
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    Introduction Throughout this essay I plan to analyse and discuss how apartheid changed in South Africa between the Sharp ville massacre in 1960 and when F. W de Kl erk became President of South Africa in 1989. In 1948, Dr Malan won the South African general election and introduced his Apartheid policies. Dr Malan initiated nine apartheid policies between 1949 and 1959. These were the Mixed Marriages Act in 1949, the Immorality Act in 1950, the Population Registration Act in 1950, the Group Areas...

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