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…to deactivate this maneuver. There is evidence that federal courts are realizing that the 25-year-old policy of busing to achieve racial balance in schools has not worked as a means for ending segregation or improving the academic performance of minority students…

…become more sophisticated. DEFINITIONS Prejudice is any negative belief, feeling or action toward a specific group or its individual members. Racism is any negative thought or action toward members of a racial minority or any manifestation of racial…

…In America, the fortie s and fifties was a time of racism and racial segregation. The Declaration of Independence states “all men are created equal” and America is viewed as the land of equal opportunity. However, blacks soon found the lack of truth…

…at Wheelock’s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to much racially motivated discrimination. Discrimination, though most author would like you…

…to protest racial discrimination, portray, and war. A champion of nonviolent resistance to oppress ion, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan.15, 1929. His father, Martin, Sr., was the pastor…

…is not fit to live" he had once said. That day he died for civil rights, he died for his dream. Prejudices have always and will always exist among people. The prejudices this nation faces now, and has faced for years is racial oppression and segregation…

…Biographical Sketch Samuel Selvon, author of novels, plays, film, television, and radio, was born in 1923 in South Trinidad to an Indian father and an Indian/Scottish mother. He grew up in Trinidad's multi-racial society and graduated from San…

…was by claiming it to be Canadians following American patterns. Another explanation might be that Canadians have historically singled out the oriental people as a racial scapegoat more than the Americans, who had the Negro as the chief object of racist fear and hatred…

…of their race, of how they look, or because they ‘re different. “This disorder that the indentured servant system had created made racial slavery to southern slave holders much more attractive, because what were black slaves now? Well, they were a permanent…

…was by claiming it to be Canadians following American patterns. Another explanation might be that Canadians have historically singled out the oriental people as a racial scapegoat more than the Americans, who had the Negro as the chief object of racist fear and hatred…