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The Segregation System I. The origins of the system The establishment of segregation was a response by white southern leaders to the abolition of slavery and the humiliation of the civil war (1861-1865). After 1865 follow a period of reconstruction. During reconstruction, the federal government took measures to protect Black people but the southern states did not accept it. They were determined to “put the Black man in his place” with Jim Crow laws, segregation laws which were meant to

1896 to Brown vs Board of Education 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court : the highest court in the american land. Their job: to decide the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are really doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, made facilities and schools separate based on race. In another case in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the court reversed its decision and

since the beginning of time. As people explored and traveled, men would fall in love with local women and either stay or take the women back home with them. Marriages of mixed religions, races or cultures have traditionally met with resistance by either party's family or friends, or by society in general. Interracial marriages were illegal in the United States in some states until 1967. Couples were prosecuted and sentenced to jail for marrying other races, as noted in the infamous court case Loving

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The history of the civil rights movement in the United States actually begins with the early efforts of the fledgling democracy. 1783 -- Massachusetts outlaws slavery within its borders. 1808 -- Importation of slaves banned; illegal slave trade continues. 1831 -- Nat Turner leads slave rebellion in Virginia; 57 whites killed; U.S. troops kill 100 slaves; Turner caught, tried and hanged. 1833 -- Oberlin College, first U.S. college to adopt co-education, is first to refuse

balances The government is divided in 3 functions ( the powers are separated.) :-make laws, the legislative, and the congress The French government had asked to pass the law against full cover veil or the head to toe veil in public. (Burqa) . Most of the legislative are bi-cameral ( the upper chamber is in France the Senat and the lower chamber in France is the House of representatives .) Both of the upper and lower chamber have equal rights, they make laws. They represents the first function

Slavery During the Antebellum Period Since slavery started in the colonies during the 1600’s , the subject has always brought many debates on how justified it was . With more than 385 000 slaver owners in the United States , slavery was well implanted , but was still a notion subject to changes . Even though the arguments in favor of slavery were essentially focused on the economic importance of slave laborers , the American population

United States and the Great Depression [pic] Introduction In 1918, the United-States go out strengthened by the war. Situated in the camp of the winners, the country did not undergo the dramatic destructions of a part of Europe and the human losses are limited. USA even acquired an excellent military scale. The maritime business peaked and New York supplanted London in the financial business. Most of the European countries are put into debt: the Americans demand the repayment

1913, Tuskegee, Alabama the United States - October 24th, 2005, Detroit, Michigan), was a black needlewoman who became a symbolic face(figure) of the fight against the racial segregation in the United States, what was worth to her mother's nickname of the movement of the civil rights on behalf of the American Congress. Parks became famous because on December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery (Alabama), she refused to give up her place to a white passenger in a bus. Arrested by the police, she lives to impose

Portrait of the USA Executive Editor— George Clack Managing Editor— Rosalie Targonski Editor— Dennis Drabelle Designer— Barbara Long Web Art Director— Min-Chih Yao Photo Research— Maggie Johnson Sliker Internet Editor— Suzanne Dawkins Contributing Editors— Maura Christopher, Anne Cusack, Michael Cusack, Fredric A. Emmert, David Goddy, Holly Hughes, Norman Lunger, John Nickerson, Bruce Oatman, Shelley Orenstein, Richard Pawelek, Ira Peck, Jonathan Rose

The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages. This Topic Page concerns Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generally speaking, governments are set up to make society a better, more orderly place to live. They do so by providing rules for conduct, by providing punishments for disobeying