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Congress also passed a number of civil rights laws barring discrimination against blacks in hotels, theaters, and other places. However, the South reacted by passing the "Black Codes, " which severely limited the rights of the newly freed slaves, preventing them in most states from testifying in courts against whites, limiting their opportunities to find work, and generally assigning them to the status of second or third class citizen...
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White vigilante groups like the Klu Klux Klan began to appear, by murdering and terrorizing blacks who tried to exercise their new rights. "Legal" ways were also found for circumventing the new laws; these included "grandfather clauses", poll taxes, white only primary elections, and constant social discrimination against and intimidation of blacks, who were excluded form education and from any job except the most menial...
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Has Affirmative Action Outlived Its Usefulness In The Workplace? Those who advocate affirmative action generally believe it is a means to address past discrimination. Affirmative action helps those that were set back by discrimination by giving them a chance to excel in education and in the workplace...	2 / 300
Affirmative Action Affirmative action was put in place to remove discrimination, however, affirmative action does not remove the discrimination, it merely directs it to majorities instead of minorities...	1 / 129
Affirmative Action Works Cited 1. "Affirmative Action." Fact Monster. 2005. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 19 Oct. 2005 . 2. "Against Affirmative Action." 19 Oct...	1 / 137
Affirmative Action Reverse Racism Affirmative action is wrong and will not help solve the problems minorities face. The reason it is wrong is because it's discrimination...	2 / 503
Affirmative Action and its Downfalls Some arguments for affirmative action may be that for hundreds of years minorities were forced into servitude and slavery by the white race, and now minorities are simply being "repaid" for all of those years of torture...	2 / 315
Affirmative Action in school and be given opportunities. There are a profusion of alternatives to Affirmative Action which can all be explored. In conclusion, Affirmative Action is one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time, and will continue to be questionable as long as it is part of our legal system...	1 / 113
Affirmative Action I do not support affirmative action for several reasons. This policy would enable two people who apply for a job in an office building for the same position to be judged differently...	2 / 494