Category: Civil Rights

The customer is always right. This old adage may seem like an exaggeration, but it’s actually a pretty accurate way to think about your rights as a customer. Most companies are required to serve all their customers, even if they aren’t happy with the service they receive. This is called a ‘harsh’ or ‘rigid’ policy,…

The Native Americans have long fought the battle to retain ownership of land they consider sacred. Bergmann has produced an admirable ethnographic work that demonstrates the unique relationship that links the peoples to the geographical landscape and the culturally relevant stories of which these sites were permanent reminders. Two periods of treaty-making occurred, during late…

Firstly, President Johnson can be viewed as making a significant contribution to the achievement of Black civil rights, perhaps more than any other American President in the years 1861-1973, due to the legislation he passed during his presidency. Historian George Goethals supports the argument that Johnson made a significant contribution to the achievement of Black…