Racial segregation, as well as responses to it and resistance against it, dominated the African American consciousness and continued to oppress African Americans and other minorities, while engendering some of the most important African American contributions to society.

As a caste system of enormous social and economic magnitude, the institutionalization of Jim Crow was the most significant element in African American life until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement led to its dismantling. Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and privileges of African Americans. civil rights legislation also includes timelines, a bibliography, and an index. Among these are the Fugitive Slave Act, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965.

legislative history have come in the area of civil rights. Many of the notable and notorious laws in U.S. Each law is then presented in an edited and, when appropriate, annotated form, so students can read and understand the actual words of the law. An overview essay introduces each period, and 36 individual laws are examined in essays placing the bills in their historical contexts. history, moving from the period of slavery, to the Civil War, to the Reconstruction, to the civil rights era of the mid- to late-20th century. This reference guide details the most critical civil rights laws in U.S. The Declaration of Independence stated that all men are created equal, yet the long and continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States seems to indicate otherwise.

The content is written to be accessible to a wide range of readers and to provide ready-reference content for courses in history, sociology, psychology, geography, and economics, as well as curricula that address immigration, urbanization and industrialization, and contemporary American society.' The content will enable students to better understand the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities as well as current social issues and policy. Volume 1 covers education grades K 12 and higher education volume 2 addresses employment, housing, family, and community volume 3 examines health and wellness and volume 4 covers immigration. Edited by experts in the field, this set supplies current information that meets a variety of course standards in four volumes. People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration examines a wide range of issues that affect people of color in American today, covering education, employment, health, and immigration.

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