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The Scottsboro Boys' Trials and the Resulting Changes in the American Legal System
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This is a 10 page paper discussing the changes in the American legal system as a result of the Scottsboro Boys trials. The Scottsboro Boys Trials from 1931-1938 revealed the injustice within American legal system in the false accusation of nine African American youths: namely, Haywood Patterson, Olin Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Ozzie Powell, Charles Weems and Clarence Norris, by two white women and the white Alabama court system. Through a series of trials and appeals for the nine boys, it became obvious to all concerned that the boys had not only been unjustly accused of raping the two white women but had also been treated unfairly within the legal system. The trials and appeals however did lead to two U.S. Supreme Court decisions based on the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution which changed and improved American law forever especially in regards to equal rights to African Americans and all minorities. Firstly, the Supreme Court reversed an Alabama State court decision regarding defendants Ozzie Powell, Haywood Patterson and Charley Weems in Powell v. Alabama (1932) when it was deemed that they did not have adequate legal counsel for their trial thus paving the way in the years that followed that all defendants must have adequate legal representation for any crime which may result in a jail sentence if found guilty. Secondly, in a huge civil rights decision, in Norris v. Alabama (1935), the Supreme Court declared that the all-white jury rule in Alabama did not provide the boys with a fair trial by an impartial jury which eventually led to the end of jury restriction based on race throughout the country.
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Filename: TJScott1.rtf
The Transformative Malcolm X.
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(6 pp). Transformation is a theme for mythology,
reality, and spirituality. In the Autobiography of
Malcom X written in consultation with Alex Haley,
all three forms of that transformative experience
are present. Yet the transforming process is also
a basic belief component Transformation as a
belief component occurs when an individual seeks
information, finds it, applies it to self, and
changes. Buddha sought information under the tree,
found it through meditation, applied it to self,
and accordingly changed. Christ sought information
in the wilderness before he began his teachings;
he found it through prayer, transformed and began
his work.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BBmalxtr.doc
The Trial Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
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This 8 page paper considers the coverage of the trial of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the subsequent news stories that have outlined his life. This paper suggests that different perspectives can be viewed in the reports in the mainstream press and in African-American press outlets. Bibliography lists 5
sources.
Filename: MHhurric.wps
The Views of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington on Racism
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This 7 page paper looks at W.E.B. DuBois's the Souls of Black Folk and Booker T. Washington's Atlantic compromise address. The two works are compared and contrasted. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA045rce.wps
The Work Performed by Slave Women and Their Impact on the Plantation Economy:
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This 4 page paper refers to the novel "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs. Based on this book, this paper gives insight into the work which slave women were forced to contribute, often amid horrific conditions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: GSJacobs.rtf
Themes in Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
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A 5 page paper
which discusses the themes of slavery and Christianity, prejudice and racism,
motherhood, family loyalty, and abandonment in Harriet Jacobs “Incidents in the Life of
a Slave Girl.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAjcbs.rtf
Thoreau on Slavery
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A 7 page research paper that discusses the stance of Henry David Thoreau on slavery and how this stance coincides with this transcendental idealism. The writer argues that examination of this issue in Thoreau's life shows a slow evolution from passive resistance to open admiration for the action taken by violent abolitionists, such as Brown, and within the context of this evolution, Thoreau's stance on slavery was in perfect keeping with his transcendentalism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khthosl.rtf
Thurgood Marshall: A Memoir
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This 7 page paper is written in first person as if Thurgood Marshall were writing himself about the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The life and times of Marshall is discussed with an emphasis on the case. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA446TM .rtf
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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(6 pp) The legend goes that when Abraham Lincoln
met diminutive Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said to
her, "Ah - you are the little lady that started
the "great war." Certainly that is not quite the
truth but Stowe's book did have a great influence
on the events of the time. This discussion will
cover various parts of the novel, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, including examining an external instructor
provided literary critique.
Filename: BBunctom.doc
Unions and the Dinkins Administration
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This 6 page paper looks at New York City in the early 1990s when the city's first black mayor was criticized for cutting city jobs. Dinkins's relationship with unions is highlighted and some of the mayor's accomplishments are noted. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: SA229DD.rtf
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