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The Right To Protest

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https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-09-09/stand-firm-right-protest The First Amendment allowed ordinary individuals the rights of the freedoms we have today. Including freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and petition. This played a big part in the civil rights era because this gave individuals the right to protest the racial injustice that was happening during this time. Without a lot of these occurrences that the first amendment brought to the table; we wouldn’t have had a lot of the landmark cases that turned American around. The United States Supreme Court made these amendments stronger by the court cases that came out of the civil rights movement.  To start it off, the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896, this case was the outcome of a black man known as Homer Plessy, who performed his right to protest by sitting in an unassigned seat in a segregated train car. The outcome of this case was the justification of racial segregation where the supreme court made the decision ...
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Last EOTO and Mock Trial

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What I Learned  About Bd. of Regents v. Bakke (1978). Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, this case is about Allan P. Bakke that applied to a bunch of medical schools but was rejected by all of them.  He applied to the University of California, Davis, twice, but after the second time, he decided to sue the school in state court saying that the affirmative action programs were unconstitutional.  This case made a point decision by the Supreme Court that upheld Affirmative Action . Allowing race to be one of the many factors in college admission policies. The court ruled specific racial quotas such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students and disadvantaged students, which was deemed impermissible. While segregated schools have been outlawed by the Supreme Court and though the court has ordered school districts to make bigger steps to assure integration, they are still asking the legality question of affirmative action programs brought by univ...
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Affirmative Action

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION    Affirmative action, also known as “positive discrimination” is a policy made by the government designed to help disadvantaged groups find employment, attend universities, and acquire housing. This policy's main factor was to offer a boost to disadvantaged groups and increase the numbers of diversity in all kinds of communities; such as a workplace or educational institutions, etc.  Basically, it's a way of taking positive steps to increase the representation of disadvantaged groups of culture that have been historically excluded. In cases where it involves preferential selection ; like the selection solely on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender. Affirmative action generally promotes disagreement. In 1961 this policy was brought up by John F. Kennedy’s presidential executive orders that stated; employees have to be treated with fairness regardless of their race. Around the year 1967, this list widened by including gender and religion; the outcome ...
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EOTO

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                                                                          https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/boycott-prevails/  Montgomery bus boycott cont  For our EOTO the first thing that was presented was The Montgomery bus boycott. This boycott was a civil rights protest in Montgomery, Alabama, where African Americans protested the racial discrimination of having to ride in separate seats from white people. The catalyst of this protest was on December 1, 1995, where an African American woman is known as, Rosa Parks, was jailed and fired from her job for refusing to move out of an assigned seat that was placed in the white section of the bus. The boycott started on December 5, 1995, and ended around December 20, 1956, where the outcome resulted in...
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Bloody Sunday (KEY POST)

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For our EOTO and mock trial this week we did, Brown v. Board of Education. Which was the case where the court found that racial segregation in public schools was an act of discrimination and that it violated the 14th amendment. So around 1952, the supreme court outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and ruled that separating children in public schools solely on the basis of race was unconstitutional. This case made racial segregation in the public schools in American come to end, which canceled out the “separate but equal” doctrine that was set in the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896.                                                           For our EOTO, our group was researching the negative occurrences that happened within the civil rights movements, and my job was to research “Bloody Sunday”. So to start it...
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The Eight Values of Free Expression (REDONE BLOG)

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 The Eight Values of Free Expressions, without these values, we as American citizens wouldn't be able to do a lot of things we take for granted.  They are a part of why America is the way it is today. So here they are! Marketplace of Ideas  I feel this is an idea for a more open community; this concept seems to draw its attention to sharing individuals' opinions, hence creating a more open community. The concept of marketplace ideas allows people to make their own decisions based on what they want because the key in this concept is to put everything out there. In Milton John's book, Areopagitica , He wrote this in protest of censorship because he believes it is wrong; which it most definitely is! It is not up to the people who censor it's up to the people to hear what it is and decide for themselves. Participation in Self Government  With participation in self-government, it's almost a way of them looking at speech as a way to keep an eye out for what government can...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (REDONE BLOG)

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  Below is a speech I wrote from the perspective of Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe. Some additional information is;  Around 1850, when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law , Stowe decided to write a book about the abolishment of slavery. The Stowe family were extremely against slavery and even supported the  Underground Railroad while they temporally housed several escaped slaves in their own household.  Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Francis Holl, 1853 Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe, born June 14, 1811, was known to be a revolutionary author who wrote about thirty books in her lifetime. She rose to fame around 1852 when her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published. This book was intended to popularize the emotional portrayal of the negativity on slavery individuals. This book captured America's attention; in Stowe’s book, she made it known that slavery touched all society and added the debate about abolition and slavery. This created a riot in the south and...
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