During the 1960s, many African Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded that the federal government step in and resolve the issue. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. ...
Women’s domestic and social roles evolved sporadically between 1920 and 1950. The prosperity and lack thereof, exemplifying each time period, significantly affected the shifts that occurred in these roles. Prominent events of influence were post World War I (1920s), The Depression and the New Deal, World War II, and Post World War II (1950’s). Women ...
In June, 1966, hundreds of representatives of women’s concerns nation-wide met for the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington D.C. Frustrated at the lack of agency they had within this U.S. government organization, some of the conference’s attendees decided that the time had come for a private national organization ...
African Americans have faced racism, prejudice attitudes, and discrimination in America for hundreds of years. First Black people were brought over as slaves and treated horribly by White people. After Black people were finally freed, they were then segregated from Whites until 1964 (Parrillo, 2011). Presently Black people still experience a great deal of racism ...
In 2012, 33 senate races will be contested. Some look like landslides, some look closer. Among the tightest is the Senate race in Missouri, which pits Democrat Claire McCaskill vs. a Republican to be named later Missouri In elections for President, Missouri has tended Republican. McCain won the state in 2008, but only by ...