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    her Masters in Fine Art from the City College of New York in 1973. While attending the City College of New York she also had begun to teach ceramics. After graduating with her Masters in Fine Art she went and taught ceramics at Rutgers University‚ Newark‚ N.Y. Also in 1975 she founded the Hatch-Billops

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    20th century‚ and post-1965. Each period brought distinct national groups‚ races and ethnicities to the United States. During the 17th century‚ approximately 175‚000 Englishmen migrated to Colonial America.[11] Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived as indentured servants.[12] The mid-19th century saw mainly an influx from northern Europe; the early 20th-century mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe; post-1965 mostly from Latin America

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    summer was named because of the riots that were taking place in more than three cities in America. Many white people attacked the African Americans and in many cases‚ the retaliation was fought back by the often abused African Americans. "The riots had economically significant negative effects on blacks’ income and employment. Further‚ those effects may have been larger in the long run - from 1960 to 1980 - than in the short run - from 1960 to 1970." (How the 1960’s Riots hurt African Americans‚

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    Before reading the book “Savage Inequalities” by Jonathan Kozol‚ I was highly unaware of how poor and neglected some schools are in America. I thought that every school in America had a great educational system and educators‚ but clearly I was mistaken. I knew that every school in America was not equal; there were obviously some schools that were better than others. However‚ upon reading “Savage Inequalities” I discovered that it was far worse than I actually knew. The book exposed me to racism/inequality

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    a body‚ called the “Police Review Board.” The board’s purpose was to “… receive‚ hear‚ and determine complaints by any person or organization of alleged misconduct to private citizens by personnel of the Philadelphia Police Department” (Naegele‚ 1965‚ p. 1). The Philadelphia experiment quickly prompted the adoption of similar review boards in other cities‚ such as New York‚ Los Angeles‚ and Washington‚ DC. Since that time‚ the “civilian oversight” movement has not lost any momentum. Indeed‚

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    people resented having to fight for a country that valued them so little‚ while white public opinion saw the refusal of some to serve‚ like Mohammed Ali‚ as unpatriotic. The most important point‚ however‚ is that once legal equality had been achieved in 1965 and the focus shifted to the social and economic effects of long-term discrimination‚ King’s methods were ineffective. Secondly the Chicago campaign. The Albany movement

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    to move as quickly as they should‚ now there are many different ranges of requests for many school repairs and fix other things in some of the poorest cities. Charter schools are very different from schools such as private and public schools. In Newark‚ children are grouped by ages consisting children five and younger that live in poverty. Schools are trying to help these children. Charter schools are private schools that give everyone a chance. For example‚ in the book Outliers‚ KIPP was a middle

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    Great Migration was caused by many push-pull factors leading them to their decision to relocate. The causes for migration to the north by the southern African Americans were segregation‚ an increase in the spread of racism‚ lots of violence such as riots and lynching‚

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    Chapter 28 The Liberal Era (1960-1968) I. The Kennedy Presidency A. Personality‚ image‚ and characteristics -Kennedy personified the self-confident liberal who believed that an activist state could improve life at home and confront the Communist college abroad -Vigorous and prosperous -Wealthy father -Charming war hero‚ used his father’s connections to win election to the House of Representatives in 1946 from a Boston district in which he had

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    The mass movement for racial equality in the United States known as the civil rights movement started in the late 1950s. Through nonviolent protest actions‚ it broke through the pattern of racial segregation‚ the practice in the South through which black Americans were not allowed to use the same schools‚ churches‚ restaurants‚ buses‚ and other facilities as white Americans. The movement also achieved the passage of landmark equal-rights laws in the mid-1960s intended to end discrimination against

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