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  First AmendmentCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the...

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  Sandra Day O'ConnorSandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso, Texas . She spent much of her childhood on a family ranch in Arizona , where she rode horses and helped herd cattle. O’Connor...

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  Gloria SteinemBORN: March 25, 1934 • Toledo, OhioAmerican author; editor; women's rights activist Gloria Steinem became famous in the 1970s as a symbol of the feminist movement in the United...

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• Black pastors see common thread with Occupy
  The Washington Post; January 21, 2012
  By Hamil R Harris; 700+ words

  As the nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Rev. JamalHarrison Bryant was outside the Federal Reserve's headquarters inthe District, protesting.And at the public radio station WPFW...
• Black voting during the civil rights movement: a micro-level analysis.(Report)
  Social Forces; September 1, 2008
  By Beyerlein, Kraig; Andrews, Kenneth T.; 700+ words

  We investigate the micro-level factors that shape electoral participation in settings where voting is highly contested and new groups are trying to expand participation in the polity....
• Local Rifts over Jewish Support for African Americans in the Pre-Civil Rights Era
  The Western Journal of Black Studies; September 22, 2002
  By Fobanjong, John; 700+ words

  Introduction The history of the modern civil rights movement in America is undeniably the story of cooperation among Blacks, Jews, and other progressive whites in the struggle to gain...
• The civil rights movement and the right to vote: black protest, segregationist violence and the audience.
  Social Forces; June 1, 2008
  By Santoro, Wayne A.; 700+ words

  The most widely cited finding in William Gamson's ([1975]1990) research on the outcomes of social movements is that the use of violence by one of the combatants often works. By noting the...
• The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969
  The Historian; March 22, 2007
  By Hall, Simon; 700+ words

  "[Black Power] is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." --Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive director, 5 July 1966 "all of the goals which Mr. Carmichael ... asserts...

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