One of the most influential people in society is Jackie Robinson. Not only has he made a great impact on society by inspiring African Americans to go to colleges or universities and changing the way people look at the All-American sport baseball, but by making history by being the first Afro-Ameri...

discrimination 1. The federal government attempted to use many laws to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, such as the Civil rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans the right of citizenship and forbade other states from passing their own discriminatory laws. This brought o...

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to others. To most people, race is characterized by the shade of color of one's skin, the texture and color of one's hair, the size of the lips, the shape of the eyes, the size of the brow and bridge of one's nose, and other such externa...