Sentences with phrase «supporting racial equality»

In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and socioeconomic level.

This approach — keeping the process open to unpopular groups and viewpoints — explains many of the modern court's rulings supporting racial equality, voting rights and free speech.

He supported racial equality and civil rights and marched in Montgomery with Martin Luther King Jr., a former auditor in his courses in church history.

Even as new evidence reveals the extent to which the American Communist Party officially used its apparatus to recruit agents for Soviet espionage, communism's apologists respond that they meant no harm, that the gallant Soviet ally needed all the help it could get, and that, after all, the Communists supported racial equality and workers» rights.

When I worked on the exhibition «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties» [at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014], people were shocked to find that artists like Frank Stella and Jim Dine had done work that was political, that sold in galleries to support racial equality.

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Also, the Americans who were strongest in the support of racial equality were the usually the ones that were most likely to support civil rights generally.

Peter Norman may be in the record books as an Olympic silver medallist, but his support of the protest against racial equality by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two black Americans sharing a podium with him, was arguably much more significant.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

As scholars Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips write, «Reducing the black - white test score gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.»

Many others on the other hand were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it instead as a sign of disrespect for the country, the flag, the military, and the police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the national anthem.

Many were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it as a sign of disrespect for the country, flag, military, and police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the National Anthem.

Ivanka has emerged as not just a key political adviser to her father — she introduced him at the Republican convention with avowals of his support for gender and racial equality — but also as the most public face of the family in terms of the future of the Trump brand.