Kathleen Caringella

6/22/09
History 303
Keith Carr

Topic: Civil Rights

Thesis:
Following the American Civil War and the freeing of the slaves, the African
Americans were not immediately grafted into the American society. The situation
between the African Americans and the whites had been getting progressively worse for
nearly a century. Many activists offered different solutions to the rising problem, among
these were Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Martin Luther
King Jr. In this current time, however, the roles have begun to switch and the white
population has begun to feel some inequality in society.

Annotated Biography:
Leon Fink. (2001). Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. U.S.A:
Houghton Mifflin Company.

Johnson, Paul. (1999). A History of the American People. New York, New York:
HarperCollins.

Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia, Appiah, Osei, & Alter, Scott. (2008). News Selection
Patterns as a Function of Race: The Discerning Minority and the Indiscriminating
Majority. Media Psychology, 11(3), 400.
A study that looks at whether whites or blacks differ in selecting news
stories and the preferences of race of the character in the story. The results show
that whites showed no preference to the race but blacks strongly preferred news
stories featuring blacks.

Anonymous. (2002). Federal Court Upholds UW Law Schools Use of Race. Black
Issues
in Higher Education, 19 (10), 14.
A Judge ruled that the University of Washington didn’t illegally
discriminate against three white applicants when they were denied entry into the
school for black students.

Liptak, Adam. (2009). Justices to Hear White Firefighters’ Bias Claims. New York
Times.
A.1.
Judge found that a white firefighter being passed up for a promotion for a
black firefighter was not racial discrimination.

Kinnard, M. (2009). SC College Sued for Discriminating against Whites. Spartanburg

Herald-Journal.
 Three white teachers are suing Benedict, which is a private coed liberal
arts school for African American students.