With the signature of Executive Order 10925 in 1961, President John F. Kennedy created the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and thus, began transforming the world of minorities, woman and the handicapped to equal existence with Caucasian males (Shelton 10). Still, this wa...

TOPICWomen and Education: Granting women and men equal access to education in light of the Fourteenth Amendment's pledge of equal protection.INTRODUCTIONThough taken for granted by many, co-sex educational institutions for higher learning are really just recent occurrences. For the most part, colleg...

Title IX, the Education Amendments of 1972, is a federal act that states: \"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial a...

Ronald "Dworkin is a giant in the fields [of public policy, political philosophy, and constitutional law]. He is one of the top theorists in the world and extremely creative" (Dobson). This was stated by John Tomasi, a professor of Political Science at Brown University who worked with Dworkin on h...

"Charles Hamilton Houston and Brown vs. Board" 1945-1970, a time for many, that marked the period known as the Civil Rights Movement. In reality, the Civil Rights Movement spanned from the time the first African American touched American soil as a slave. From that moment on, African A...

In April, the US Supreme Court let stand a ruling that strengthens a controversial interpretation of Title IX, the 1972 legislation that denies federal funding to universities that discriminate based on sex in scholastic sports. The newest interpretation makes it necessary for universities to have s...

Introduction American History is full of struggles and the fight for equality forall people. The civil rights era was among the most memorable battles inAmerican History. It involved many sacrifices on the part of minoritiesand those that fought for their civil rights. The civil rights battl...