Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GIVEN the recent Supreme Court decisions narrowing the scope of civil rights, minority leaders agree that the gains procured by the 1960s Civil Rights Movement have been effectively set back. African Americans as well as all other minority groups in this country will have to accept the harsh reality of a new era being thrust upon them...
...latter half of this decade it has become too apparent that the conservative right is no longer willing to tolerate affirmative action policies as a means of redressing past injustices. This harsh new era has also seen the zeal of the Civil Rights Movement wane in a generation that did not experience the horrors of sanctioned and institutionalized racism...
...stark reality is that the movement's message has become like a tiresome and empty reverberation of a steel drum upon disinterested ears. If minorities are ever to move beyond the call for true equality and actually achieve it on all levels in this nation, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s has got to give way to an updated version suitable for the 1990s...
According to Deale, the 1979 Massachusetts Civil Rights Act prohibits private entities such as Harvard from coercing, intimidating or threatening anyone to keep them from exercising their constitutional rights, including rights to free speech. HRAAA maintains that the Young Report violates this...
Hugo also threatens the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and civil defense authorities in the Dominican Republic declared a state of emergency yesterday afternoon...