1st Women Rights Convention

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The signers at the convention brought charges which were against the American men that the legitimized authority of men had had denied women their political rights, discriminated women during education, property ownership and employment. Their model was the declaration of independence and the advocates of women rights at the convention brought public attention and initiated a new phase of movement of women rights. Seneca Falls convention increased the women’s desire for freedom. The Declaration of sentiments meant that men and women had equal rights which included liberty and life. It was thus necessary for the women to be given the same opportunities that the men had. The agreement was signed in February 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was approved later this year.

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The 14th Amendment declares that any person in the US is a citizen of this country and belongs to the States in which he or she lives. It is alleged that the state cannot deny anyone the right to equal protection. The amendment began its effects in 1868 in order to preserve the rights of slaves who were liberated in the south. She says that "No state is. In 1924 the Indian Citizenship Act was implemented. This Act was proclaimed by house and senate representatives of United States in the assembled congress. It states that the Indians who were non-citizens but born within the territories of United States are United States citizens. Such citizenship was not to be impaired or affect Indians right to property or tribal.

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(Daniel McCool, 2007) The constitution of United States gave the state’s power to set rules of time, place and how to hold elections but the congress had the power to alter the regulations and this led to disagreement between the states and the federal government. The intervention was a violation of Japanese rights because they were citizens of the United States and had the right to protect their rights under the 14th Amendment. Lynching Lynchings were violent actions of torture that made the black people suffer and the acts were tolerated by the federal officials. Lynching was terrorism and it came to climax from 1180 t0 1940 and many African American women lost lives, children and men endured the humiliation and fear of lynching.

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It affected the race relations and caused many black people to migrate from south to north in the urban ghettos. It created horrifying environments as there were excessive punishment, police abuse and jailing of the racial minorities. These codes forced the black Americans to work in labor economies with low wages or when they had debts. The codes were used by southern whites to suppress the freedom of the freedmen. The codes were used by northern states to prevent free blacks from living in those states. Black codes were defined by vagrancy law which gave local authorities the right to arrest freedmen when found in minor infractions and force them to involuntary work. During Johnson’s policies of the presidential Reconstruction, the southern states had implemented their own codes.

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Segregation caused the blacks to be able to access some facilities like schools and buses though they were not supposed to mix with the whites. Jim Crow started the idea of the second world war which whose aim was to fight racism. A mass movement for civil rights was started to fight against segregation. It aimed at fighting for the freedom of the blacks. Brown v. With education, the blacks were able to reach heights that were initially meant for Whites. Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Bus Boycott was launched by an African-American after Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to abandon the Montgomery bus from Alabama, while they demanded regulation of the city. The nonviolent boycott was led by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, and two Baptist ministers.

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The Interstate Federal Trade Commission has banned segregation on buses and interstate trains. Others discussed the roles played by the whites in the struggle for freedom and the federal legislation impacts (Herbert Shapiro, 1998) Johns F. Kennedy gave hope to blacks, assuring them that the government will support the civil rights movement. In 1963, on June 11, the president spoke about violence, civil rights and racism to the American public (John F. Kennedy, 1963). He explained the aims of the movements and proposed legislation as the best way to achieve equality in the races. Charles Payne's book on "I have the right to freedom," he writes. The sheriff forced the witnesses to testify that Herbert had made an attempt of harming Hurst with an equipment.

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In 1964, civil rights activists experienced violence, including Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney, leaving the meridian to investigate church fires in the eastern region of America. Mount Zion Church was burned since it was a place where the civil rights activists met. The three activists were arrested by sheriff Cecil Price and released only to be arrested again. The group preached hatred of the Jews and the Whites. Black power was different from civil rights movement in that it preached hatred of the whites and its movements were violent based while civil rights movement aimed at non-violent movements and preached love for the whites. It is similar to the civil rights movement in that it fought for equality and for the freedom of the blacks.

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Conservative Response and Continued Progress American conservatism is different as it used established churches and military elite. Conservative is manifested among the black clergies in their belief that the role of the black church is to save souls and the reforms of the blacks and the society should be from within. When First World War was coming to an end several organizations and treaties had been formed to give protection to the minorities. International Labor Organization was formed in 1919 to boost the conditions of laborers (Michael Addo, 1999). The atrocities done during in the Second World War, called for an acute need for maintaining peace for humankind caused international cooperation which aimed at protecting people from the power of the state and improving the living standards (Patrnogic,1991).

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Fundamental principles were laid on June 26th in 1945 at San Francisco which adapted the United States Charter. On December 10th in 1948, references of the charter gained a universal declaration of the human rights. korepetycje. com/writing-resources/primary-secondary-sources. html http://www. mshistorynow. mdah. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (2000): Berkeley, California: Heyday Books,. John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, (1995): Urbana, University of Illinois Press,. John F. Kennedy, "Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights," (June 11, 1963): Retrieved November 2, 2013. John F. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2007. Medgar Wiley Evers, (1925-1963): Medgar Evers College. Retrieved November 2, 2013. Michael Addo, Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations (The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 1999) Myrlie Evers and William Peters, For Us the Living,( 1967) : New York, Doubleday,.

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