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…served as director and chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. At the NAACP, Marshall helped develop and implement a strategy to fight racial segregation throughout the United States. He worked closely with local communities…

…the ILD was regarded by some as a welcome addition to the panoply of "racial defense" organizations. Moreover, although the "Scottsboro Boys" the defendants were denied the right of counsel. For the new Scottsboro trials, whichopened on March 27, 1933, the ILD…

…experience racial discrimination and hate crimes for the color of their skin. Although slavery is now abolished and illegal in the United States, we still see how our country has not completely moved on from its past. There is still a tie between slavery…

…of identity, which conform his identity. Along this path, our narrator changes his identity, and in doing so, fulfills the message of his Grandfather, losing his true character and ideals, becoming invisible. Despite Ellison’s focus on the racial tension…

…. America’s status as a world power grew also from tradition that had been rooted deep in the people of the nation since it was formed. Values like progress, expansionism, mission, and racial inequality had been around forever. These all contributed to the view…

…there are unnerving scenes of racial violence: of black youths kicking a helpless white student in a high school restroom; of a Korean-owned grocery store terrorized by skinhead thugs; of an African American whose skull is split open by a skinhead who orders him to lie…

…Independence movement, Gandhi is often called the "Father of the Nation." In 1893, Gandhi went to South Africa, then under British control, for legal work. Racial discrimination was freely practiced and in an incident that would change his life, Gandhi…

…of these African American children born into ghettos during the late twentieth century with their only venue out of the ghetto through their ability in basketball. The documentary also shows the racially and economically motivated treatment by a predominantly white…

…it this way.” (Making A Nation, 71) Slavery was racially motivated since predominantly all blacks were slaves and with the 1662 statute in effect they would be slaves for life, as would their descendants. Even if the slaves were released they still were African…

…Lorraine Hansberry: “Most Promising Playwright” Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. She dedicated her life to pursuing racial and sexual equality in the United States. Hansberry was born…