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   Today in class we watched a video that covered the historical March on Washington that occurred in the capitol of our nation. This march occurred during the 1960's right in the middle of many civil rights movements. The protests first started mostly in the Southern states where racism and segregation was a much larger problem than up north. The first protest occurred in 1955 in Montgomery Alabama. The protest sparked from the case of Rosa Parks where she refused to give up her seat to a while man on a bus. This initial protest lead to many more and started some violence. These protests kept occurring in the south and violence was repeated throughout.    Civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, stated that the marches were not causing and procession in the south and kept getting shut down. He believed that the march needed to be sent up north where the movement would be a national icon.   One of the...

      In this project we were to create a color scheme based off of a picture we had taken. I took this picture of this wheat field that bloomed a random red flower right in the middle of the green abyss. Afterwords, I took the three major colors from the picture and created a color scheme. The three colors I chose to use are red, green, and light blue.  In this task I chose to create a color swatch of all of the colors in the image. The colors on the far left are the three basic colors in the image. Afterwards, I went into indesign and created different tints on the images. The images on the far left have 100% tint. The images in the middle are much lower. The red middle is around 65 percent along with the others. The final colors in the final collums are the lowest tint. These tints created a light tint to every color.      The final part of the project consisted of me creating a name plate that was based off of the color schemes I created ...

  Today in class a mock trial of the case of Bakke v.s Board of Regents was held. This case occurred in the year of 1978 and was between Allan Bakker and the Board of Regents at the University of California. Bakke sued the University because the medical school left 16 seats of the 100 seats to anyone who is considered a minority. This could be anyone of Asian, African American, or anything other than white descent. Bakke was denied admissions to the school two times. In retaliation, or constitutionally, he decided to sue the school. He stated that what the school was doing was unconstitutional and racist. During this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of California, included quotas that were considered racist in it’s admissions process. However, this did not mean that race would not be considered in future admission processes. The court ruled that schools may consider race to allow more diversity in the school or specific program. The admissions however, should be as...

 Today in class there group read an article written by Professor Smith. In the article he discusses two popular ideas of Popular Constitutionalism and Non-Judicial Precedents. Popular Constitutionalism is the idea that the people of the nation have a role and can interpret the constitution and the amendments it holds. The judges although they are at the top of the totem pole should not be able to always rule over the people. The people should be able to make these interpretations as an American citizen.  Non Judicial Precedents are past judgements in the constitution in a non-judicial way. Non-Judicial people are able to persuade people much easier than those rules made by smaller courts in constitutional law. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/178/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10811680.2014.860828 https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol61/iss3/1/ 

       Today in class we had a group presentation that covered many topics during the Harlem Renaissance. Each team member covered a certain topic during the time period. The topic or group I chose to cover is the Congress of Racial Equality also known as C.O.R.E.  C.O.R.E was a group of inneracial students founded in 1942 at the University of Chicago campus. The group started off with four founding fathers. The founding fathers were James Farmer, Georger Houser, Bayard Rustin, and Bernice Fischer. Gandhi, the Indian lawyer and biggest political figure in history, is the group's biggest influencer. Gandhi was known for his peaceful protests which C.O.R.E. would follow. For instance, they would promote sit-ins and non-violent forms of protest to get their word spread. The goal was to integrate into Chicago restaurants and businesses. In 1955, C.O.R.E traveled to the south and promoted even more non-violence training to the people in need. The group quickly became...

 Five years ago on the day of June 17th, 2015, a 21 year old opened fire on a church. The terroristic attack was motivated through racism. The shooting opened the eyes to many people about the the racism that still exists today in the United States.  The Reconstruction Era was a time after the Civil war where segregation and racism occurred. The Union won the war and ended slavery, however, it was not the end for the blacks freedom. The African American people had to fight for decades to finally get their equality they have received today in the present time. The 2015 shooting was an experience that showed the fight for inequality was not over.  The African American community was left with no money or jobs. The jobs they were only available sometimes, so many people were left without work.  As well as being short of jobs African Americans and the black community needed to deal with the KKK and Jim Crow laws. The KKK or Ku Klux Klan was a hate group that fought to cau...