6. Which Countries Set the Best Examples: A Comparison of the Worlds Most Generous Nations Aid to Developing Countries Generous ?! 2005
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8. “ Doing well and doing good” Source: The Economist
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16. Civic Engagement The NAACP Civic Engagement Department has developed a 2006 Voter Empowerment Program (VEP '06) as a nonpartisan campaign designed to empower African Americans and people of color by increasing awareness and participation in the electoral process. Education Department The overall goal of the NAACP National Education Department is to ensure that all students have access to an equal and high-quality public education by eliminating all education related racial and ethnic disparities. Organization of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) events
17. Meals for Freedom Riders Freedom Rides were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. Organized by CORE, the first Freedom Ride of the 1960s left Washington D.C. on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.
18. Children of lynching victims Lynching refers to the practice in the 19th and 20th centuries of the humiliation and killing of people by mobs acting outside the law. These murders, most of them unpunished, often took the form of hanging and burning. To demonstrate a ritual of power, mobs sometimes tortured the victim.
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20. The Great Depression It was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. Great Slump
21. Desegregation of schools In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the norm across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts. Brown v. Board of Education v. Plessy v. Ferguson The Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy for public education, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and required the desegregation of schools across America. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision did not abolish segregation in other public areas, though it did declare the permissive or mandatory segregation that existed in 21 states unconstitutional.
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23. Booker T aliaferro Washington Blacks were Republican; After 1890 many lost the vote in the deep South; The surest way for blacks eventually to gain equal rights was to demonstrate patience, industry, thrift, and usefulness and said that these were the key to improved conditions for African Americans in the United States and that they could not expect too much, having only just been granted emancipation.