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Civil Rights
Civil rights guarantee people the right to be treated fairly regardless of their gender, national origin, race, age, sexual orientation or religion. These rights provide the basic outline in laws of the United States and many other countries.
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How are gay rights in india affected by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code?
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Codecriminalises gay sexual activity.
What are Civil Rights Words from A-z?
A is African American
B is Black
C is Civil
D is Death
E is
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I is illegal
What color were Homer Adolph Plessy's parents?
Homer A. Plessy was the petitioner in the landmark US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) that validated the "separate but equal" doctrine and lead to generations of oppressive Jim Crow laws in the United States.
Plessy was of mixed heritage, but was seven-eighths white. Both of Plessy's parents were listed as free persons of color, so it's impossible to tell which ancestors in the lineage on each side were African-American.
Plessy had very light skin and admitted he could "pass" as white, although he had enough African traits to be able to challenge the Louisiana Separate Cars Act, 1890 legislation that enforced segregation in intrastate railway travel. Plessy belonged to a group called the "Citizens' Committee" that deliberately provoked subtle confrontation over the law.
Lead Counsel for the case, Albion Tourgee, purposely chose Plessy for his light complexion, but wasn't simply trying to elevate the status of lighter-skinned African-Americans, as some of his contemporary darker-skinned peers criticized him of doing. Tourgee was a brilliant strategist who wanted equality for all African-Americans.
What is the difference between constitutional rights and civil rights?
Primary sources of civil rights law include the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (the "Bill of Rights"), as well as a number of important pieces of federal legislation passed in recent decades. Constitutional rights are rights given or reserved to the people by the U.S. Constitution, and in particular, the Bill of Rights (first ten amendments). So, you can see the correlation.
Does your child support stop if you have ten kids you live in Texas?
Why would that have any affect on it?
What is the difference between civil rights and political rights?
Importance
The original draft of the US Constitution had articles that were contested by many U.S. Representatives. Issues that were part of the Constitution components were taken up and due amendments were made in time. The first ten amendments ratified were termed as the Bill of Rights, in 1791. These amendments play a key role in the law and government policies and are symbolic of freedoms and US culture and etch the importance of the Bill of Rights in the American psyche. The 14 copies of the Bill of Rights are national property of much importance and one is on display at the National Archives, Washington D.C.
What Sheriff Strider say is the reason why trouble occurs between whites and blacks in Mississippi?
"We never have any trouble until some of our Southern niggers go up North and the NAACP talks to 'em and they come back home. If they would keep their nose and mouths out of our business we would be able to do more when enforcing the laws of Tallahatchie County and Mississippi." This in response to death of Emmet Till.
What events in American history would be considered violations of modern civil rights?
If the history of the United States begins when the thirteen colonies became states under the US Constitution, then two major sets of activities concerning the USA would today be considered human rights violations. Using "major" as the criteria, and using USA as the place, of these violations, three main violations can be identified. 1. slavery 2. violations of treaties made with Native Americans and human rights violations made against Natives where no treaties were involved, and 3. Denying women the right to vote. In some counties women still are denied the right to vote.
Should corporal punishment be in schools there is a debate didnt get to pick side need help please?
yes the cane should be brought back into schools and here is why
In schools there are bullies who torment their classmates for fun, research proves that most teachers cannot control the classroom environment, we are producing a generation that has not been properly taught right from wrong.
In some cases we know that detentions after school are sometimes sufficient for some students and they change their ways, but in most cases this proves to be un-sufficient especially as students become wiser and start taking advantage in detentions to verbally abuse their teachers. Is this acceptable? I say no.
School truancy figures in England are up and a recent report into secondary school discipline showed that levels of bad behaviour were on the increase we need to work together to make a better environment for students who want a good education.
No corporal punishment should not be allowed back into the schools. A child that bullies and torments other children; disruptive in the classroom; unruly and misbehaving in a manner that is assualtive and combative with others should be tested by the school psychologist and a plan should be developed to address the needs of the child. Many times children that act out in the classroom suffer with learning disabilites or some type of neuological disorder. Prior to "hitting" the child to curb "certain" behaviors, explore what is going on with the child and the child's home environment. Children in today's society are exposed to tremendous "stimulants" in the home through and by television/computers/telephones/ magazines, radio, friends/relatives, poor parenting by the parents, diet or lack thereof, etc. -- Advocate for "intervention and prevention" programs for kids in the school environment. Advocate for a change in the school curriculum. If children have poor communication skills then educate them on how to communicate their needs in a more effective manner, etc. --- There is a reason for the "bad" behaviors of a child. We need to enhance the antiquated model that our schools are based on and reflect the changes that have occurred in Society over the past fifty years.
Yes, it serves no purpose other than to establish who has the power over whom. If an adult struck another adult because they believed the person was not behaving in an acceptable manner, he or she would be guilty of the crime of assault and battery. Children deserve the same protection under the law as adults including in school. "People are not for hitting, and children are people too"; therefore no one has the right to use physical force as a disciplinary measure.
Corporal punishment should be illegal in all schools. If a child acts out in school, something is going on with the child and that needs to be explored. "Hitting" as a means to resolve or provide cure is like "pouring gasoline to put out an existing fire". Greater emphasis needs to be placed in facilitating avenues within the school environment for the child that is suffering. In lieu of "hitting" the child and calling that "the cure", let us teach the child a more effective means of communicating to get their needs met.
What is section four of the civil rights act 1965?
The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 1973-1973aa-6)[1] outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibited states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."[2] Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African-Americans from exercising the franchise.[3] The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
The Act established extensive federal oversight of elections administration, providing that states with a history of discriminatory voting practices (so-called "covered jurisdictions") could not implement any change affecting voting without first obtaining the approval of the Department of Justice, a process known as preclearance. These enforcement provisions applied to states and political subdivisions (mostly in the South) that had used a "device" to limit voting and in which less than 50 percent of the population was registered to vote in 1964. Congress has amended and extended the Act several times since its original passage, the most recent being the 25-year extension signed by President George W. Bush.
The Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights legislation, though some of its provisions have sparked political controversy. During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement (the Act's primary enforcement provision), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate.[4] Conservative legislators also opposed requiring states with large Spanish-speaking populations to provide bilingual ballots.[5] Congress nonetheless voted to extend the Act for twenty-five years with its original enforcement provisions left intact.[6]
Under the Truman administration proposed civil rights legislation largely?
Truman's request that the Congress act to mitigate discrimination against blacks did not result in any congressional action. The Presidential Committee on Civil Rights reported to the President that racial discrimination continued blocking Blacks from jobs, education, civil rights, and did nothing to stop lynching. When a combination of Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked Truman's civil rights programs, Truman issued an executive order that banned discrimination in the army, navy, civil service jobs, and in companies that did business with the federal government. Under Truman, the Supreme Court ordered some southern states to admit blacks to state supported professional schools because the segregated medical and legal training they offered blacks was not equal in quality to that provided for whites. Truman's Civil Rights program was moderate. He did not attack Jim Crow laws, which "legally" allowed segregation laws to be passed. But the "Man from Missouri" did more for civil rights than FDR.
Was there a civil rights movement before 1945?
Yes. In the State of Alaska (at the time a territory of the United states) passed a law against civil rights and discrimination of Alaska Natives. lead by Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich
What law made it illegal to spread contraceptive information and devices?
There are rather old federal laws that still prohibit these activities.
18 USC Section 1461. "Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter", enacted in 1911, included "contraception" information as "obscene or immoral" materials that could not be sent by interstate commerce.
Distribution of information regarding means or opportunities for procuring an abortion were also illegal, and both were made violations under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 USC 1961 (in the 1984 amendments).
Is there a physical address for rev Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?
Use a search engine and enter their names - I'm sure you'll find some means with which to contact them.
Is there any hackers who block your computer and ask you to pay money to unblock it?
That depends on what you mean by "block". If you mean block access to the internet - that's pretty tough to sustain since you can usually resolve the problem by calling your ISP to get them to fix the problem there or by restoring the portions of your operating system that take care of establishing connections to the network and running your browser or other applications that utilize the network.
On the other hand, there are some @sshole criminals who will cause the contents of your files to become encrypted and then demand that you pay money to them to get the necessary cryptographic key to decrypt and restore your files. They usually target companies because they can extort more money from them but they have been known to attack individual users. Like any hostage situation, there is no guarantee that the victim will get the hostage (in this case data) back intact once they have paid the ransom. This is one of many reasons that good practice is to back up all critical files regularly and store them offline separate from the primary storage so that in the event of data loss, you can restore the lost files.
Note that most (albeit not all) of these criminals operate from countries where there are no laws or little enforcement of existing laws to prosecute cyber crimes so victims are usually left with only two choices:
1. try to recover their data another way (hopefully from backups)
or
2. pay the ransom and hope that they will really get their data back.
Involving the law may not do any good if the authorities in the country where the criminals reside are unable or unwilling to prosecute.
I suppose that a sufficiently wealthy and unethical company could hire someone to hack back to the criminals, locate them, and then send some goons to rough them up to get the data back, but that's a pretty shady way to approach it and still not a guarantee that the data would be recovered. Better to use appropriate measures to prevent the intrusion in the first place and have backups to permit recovery if the preventive measures fail.
Why was homer plessy arrested?
He was riding in a "whites-only" train car. Front of the marker placed Feb. 12, 2009, commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy June 17, 1892, for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act. He was sitting in the whites' coach when he was asked to move and refused, which led to his arrest.
Why are whistle-blowers gang stalked and harassed by the government?
Because there is a secret government within the government that is sectret and they want to keep it secret and no one knows why they keep it secret or try to stop them from keeping it a secret because those who know why it is a secret keep it a secret. Something like that....anyhoos, they are willing to go to great lengths to keep their secret from citizens because if their secret is blown all hell will break loose and us good ol "we the people" might kick their evil-doing, egotistical, psychotic, unamerican, unpatriotic, freedom takin, liberty squandering, asses out and get some real results. Or I could have given you the short answer....whistleblowers are targeted because evil runs our system and they want to keep it that way. Evil never prevails....got that on the highest authority.
What civil rights were extended following the civil war?
The promulgation of the Fourteenth Amendment, that was effectively a bill of rights, guaranteed in 1866 the new black citizens their political and legal equality. In 1869 the Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment which stated that citizens' rights were not to be limited by "race, color or previous condition of servitude".
How did the separate but equal doctrine evolve?
It was put in place, little by little, in the Reconstruction era, after the Civil War, culminating in what were known as "Jim Crow" laws. The U.S. Supreme Court codified it in the landmark case, "Plessy v. Ferguson" in 1896. It was finally overturned in 1954, by the Supreme Court, in "Brown v. Board of Education".
How many children did homer plessy have?
Plessy had three children an when they moved one of there childern had got hit by a car for playing in the street in Washington d.c
What was the Civil Rights act of 1964 authorized under?
Interstate Commerce Clause. So it cannot apply to employers who are not in interstate commerce (assumed to be those with fewer thna 15 employees).
What did Homer Plessy look like?
Homer Plessy was classified as an "Octoroon" by 19th-Century New Orleans standards, meaning he was one-eighth African in descent. Plessy had one black grandmother, a Haitian "free woman of color," named Catherine Mathieu, who married and bore eight children with Homer's French Caucasian grandfather, Germain Plessy. Homer was very light-skinned, and said his African heritage was "not discernable."
Plessy belonged to a group of New Orleans' African-American professionals, the Citizens Committee, that deliberately staged confrontations over Jim Crow laws in Louisianna. The law targeted in this case was Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which required separation of travelers by race. If Plessy's arrest hadn't been prearranged with the East Louisiana Railroad Company, he probably wouldn't have been challenged for sitting in the "whites only" car.
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