Elaine Brown/'Taste of Power'
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A 5 page analysis of the autobiography of Elaine Brown, who briefly led the Black Panthers in the early 1970s. Brown offers a revealing look into the dynamics of an organization that symbolized the militant left in the Civil Rights movement, the organization that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover referred to as the greatest internal threat facing American national security. Brown's frank discourse reveals the sexism that was inherent in the black power politics of this organization. No other sources cited.
Filename: 99ebpow.wps

The Civil Rights Movement / Its Importance to Educational Equality
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A 3 page overview of the positive results of the Civil Rights Movement on Education. Identifies bilingual education and the Civil Rights Act as being perhaps the two most important spin-offs of this movement. Relies heavily on 'Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society' (1998) by Donna Gollnick and Philip Chinn. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Eduequa2.wps

Central High School / Landmark Event In The Civil Rights Movement
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A 15 page piece on how the efforts of the black students at Central High School helped advanced the movement. This paper covers the students' sacrifice and the effects it had in the courts and on government. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Desegre.wps

Civil Rights
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This 5 page paper compares the civil rights movement of the sixties as with those that occurred during the earlier part of the century. Figures such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.DuBois are discussed. The September 1998 racial disturbances in New York are used as examples of why the fight for equality is still not over. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Civrite.wps

Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century - The African American Reality
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This 12 page report discusses civil rights and the civil rights movement of the past century. While it was a time of social change in America that was unprecedented, it is also essential to understand that while it accomplished much, it did not solve America's civil liberty and racial problems. No other ethnic group has had this more carefully documented in the past fifty years than the African American community. Information is available from sources ranging from popular fiction to the scholarly archives of hundreds of universities. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: BWciv20.wps

James Meredith
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This 5 page report discusses the young man who in 1962 found himself as the focal point of the civil rights movement when he became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, 'Ole Miss.' Four years later, he was gunned down while leading the 'March Against Fear,' an effort to encourage African Americans to vote. He has remained active in civil rights but his conservative views have alienated many. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWmered.rtf

Robert Weisbrot's 'Freedom Bound: A History of the Civil Rights Movement'
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This 3 page report is an overview of Weisbrot's chronicle of the major events of America's civil rights movement. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Freeboun.wps

The Civil Rights Era and the Student Movement
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This 7 page paper looks at the civil rights and student movements and compares their objectives and techniques. The discussion includes reasons why the movements began peacefully but ended with violence. The movements are compared and contrasted. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA26Civ.wps

The Civil Rights Movement & the Black Middle Class
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A 11 page research paper, plus a 1 page proposal for that paper, that examines how the civil rights movement has caused the creation of a large, African-American middle class in contemporary America. The writer offers an overview of the civil rights era and argues that this large black middle class has reaped the benefits of that era, as well as furthering its goals. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: 90civil.rtf