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| | MSN Encarta - Discrimination |
 | | Racial discrimination in employment by a state government agency was banned in 1972, and U.S. attorneys were authorized to sue noncomplying state agencies; similarly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, established in 1964, was authorized to file suit. |  | | Racial discrimination practiced against Hispanic Americans is also widespread, and has generally assumed traditional forms, including discriminatory policies in employment, housing, and access to the judicial system, but it has also involved such issues as bilingual education, fair treatment by the communications media, and prison reform. |  | | The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the constitutional amendments that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865) changed the legal status of African Americans, but a series of decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States struck down federal statutes designed to enforce the amendments. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761573635/Discrimination.html
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| | Racial Discrimination in Argentina |
 | | INADI was established by law in 1995 with the objective of elaborating national policies and concrete measures to combat discrimination, xenophobia and racism, and with the mandate of initiating and fulfilling actions to this end. |  | | In addition to these constitutional amendments, various laws have been passed and decrees issued in recent years with the aim of eliminating racial and other forms of discrimination, documenting the occurrence of discrimination, and enabling victims to seek redress. |  | | In correspondence with international human rights instruments, new amendments prohibit discrimination, provide equal civil rights to nationals and foreigners, and recognize indigenous communities as previously-extant legal entities entitled to participation in relevant development issues. |
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http://academic.udayton.edu/race/06hrights/GeoRegions/SouthAmerica/argentina01.htm
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| | Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Special Programs and Campaigns - Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance |
 | | These were discrimination in the determination of nationality and citizenship rights, and discrimination in criminal justice and in the public administration of state institutions, services, and resources. |  | | Criminal justice policies in the United States permanently stripped many of its nationals of fundamental civil rights in a manner disproportionately affecting minorities. |  | | We are served refreshment only in separate cups at roadside tea stalls, turned away from public swimming pools, stopped on highways as presumptive criminals, trafficked as prostitutes, denied our mother's nationality, classed willy-nilly as "mentally disabled" in schools, and abducted into slavery. |
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| | People For the American Way - Racial Discrimination |
 | | Joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas also strongly dissented from the Court's ruling that a government policy that racially segregates prisoners cannot be upheld unless it is justified under strict equal protection scrutiny. |  | | Under the Court's ruling, individuals may sue only when the discrimination is alleged to have been intentional. |  | | In 1992, Scalia wrote that the courts should stop overseeing the desegregation of schools previously subject to de jure segregation, even for schools that remain significantly segregated. |
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| | The State Action Requirement and Race |
 | | The Court found that the use of peremptory challenges was authorized by federal law and that there was judicial assistance of the discrimination in the excusing of the challenged juror. |  | | Since almost all private discrimination is supported at some level through the courts (through application of race-neutral trespass and contract law, for example), Shelley leaves us to guess just what the exact limits of its governing principle might be. |  | | A third basis for finding state action is that the action of the government is so entwined with the action of the private parties that the complained about action can be fairly attributed to the government. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/stateaction.htm
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| | Racism and Human Rights (World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - ... |
 | | The de facto denial of remedies to particular groups within a criminal justice system or the disparate effect of de jure disenfranchisement of members of a particular group may be evidence of unjustified racial discrimination regardless of the intent of lawmakers and public officials. |  | | Despite formal protections in law, discriminatory treatment remains endemic and discriminatory societal norms continue to be reinforced by government structures ranging from the police and the lower courts to state and municipal authorities. |  | | Groups that suffer today because of slavery or other severe racist practices should be compensated by governments responsible for these practices. |
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| | Lesson 18: Understanding and Preventing Sexual and Racial Discrimination (Lesson Material) |
 | | According to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion or disability is prohibited by CAP policy as well as laws and directions governing federally assisted organizations. |  | | The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI, provides that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal assistance. |  | | You can elect not to hire someone, but your intent must be because they do not posses the skills required to do the job. |
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http://level2.cap.gov/Prof_Dev_Modules/cap_lesson_18/lesson18_html/lesson18.htm
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| | Michigan Education - Racial Quotas and Reverse discrimination against students and faculty. |
 | | At the heart of the matter was whether "race-based admissions programs" constitute illegal racial discrimination or represent a "compelling state interest". |  | | Professor Buszek's attorney, Glen Lenhoff, told AP that reverse discrimination is rampant in educational institutions. |  | | The two long-running reverse discrimination lawsuits pending against Michigan were filed by Barbara Grutter and Jennifer Gratz. |
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| | About HRI |
 | | All States shall take effective measures to revise governmental and other public policies and to rescind laws and regulations which have the effect of creating and perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it still exists. |  | | The United Nations, the specialized agencies, States and non-governmental organizations shall do all in their power to promote energetic action which, by combining legal and other practical measures, will make possible the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination. |  | | These measures shall in no circumstances have as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups. |
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| | Race/Color Discrimination |
 | | It is unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of his/her race or color in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment. |  | | It is also unlawful to retaliate against an individual for opposing employment practices that discriminate based on race or color, or for filing a discrimination charge, testifying, or participating in any way in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under Title VII. |  | | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination on the bases of race and color, as well as national origin, sex, and religion. |
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 | | Carmen D. Caruso represents an African American franchisee who is challenging the notion that franchisors may restrict minority opportunities to “their” communities face liability for violating a federal civil rights law. |  | | The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (based in Chicago) has held that plaintiffs are entitled to a jury trial to present a “mosaic” of proof tending to show that discrimination occurred. |  | | The Supreme Court has recently confirmed that plaintiffs may prevail with “indirect” or circumstantial proof of discrimination. |
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| | Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - Racial Discrimination |
 | | It is important to point out that the granting of formal equality under law has not spelled an end to discrimination in and by the institutions that determine our opportunities and govern us. |  | | While slavery as an institution was abolished first by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and then under the Thirteenth Amendment at the end of the Civil War, de jure racial subordination continued. |  | | National governmental actions to prohibit discrimination by state governments, schools, and employers were notable during the 1960s. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wm_031100_racialdiscri.htm
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| | Racial Discrimination: The Mitsubishi, Japan Case |
 | | A software engineer from India named [name removed] has sued his employer for racial discrimination and harassment, marking the first such lawsuit ever filed in a Japanese court. |  | | The company has clearly acted in breach of both of these, says Murata, but these are not the only grounds they have to stand on. |  | | This is my story of a rare employment-related racial discrimination lawsuit I filed against them in their home country. |
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http://www.kamalsinha.com/mitsubishi
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| | Racial Discrimination |
 | | Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the United States |  | | Please use them as an introduction to your research on this issue. |  | | Defines terms related to discrimination as well as categories of people who may be subjected to discrimination. |
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http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/crsres/discrim.htm
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Racial Justice : Racial Profiling |
 | | Racial Justice : Racial Profiling - Legal Documents |  | | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights' Letter to Attorney General Gonzales Expressing Concern About the Suppression of a Bureau of Justice Statistics Report on Racial Profiling |  | | Racial Justice : Racial Profiling - Legislative Documents |
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http://www.aclu.org/RacialEquality/RacialEqualitylist.cfm?c=133
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| | EEOC Finds Widespread Racial Discrimination At Freddie Mac - Sept. 3, 1998 |
 | | The letter was released Wednesday by an attorney for Morgan. |  | | The EEOC filed suit against Freddie Mac last year, but a federal judge dismissed the suit after finding that the company had taken sufficient remedial action. |  | | Freddie Mac, based in suburban McLean, Va., is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress to increase the supply of money that commercial banks and other mortgage lenders can make available to home buyers. |
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/09/03/ap/discrimination
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| | International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March |
 | | The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations. |  | | Includes draft resolutions recommended for adoption by the General Assembly. |  | | On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid "pass laws". |
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http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/racial
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| | Nat' Academies Press, Measuring Racial Discrimination (2004) |
 | | Shivley, S. 2001 Resurgence of the class action lawsuit in employment discrimination cases: New obstacles presented by the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act. |  | | Sampson, R.J., and J.L. Lauritsen 1997 Racial and ethnic disparities in crime and criminal justice in the United States. |  | | Romero, F.S. 2000 The Supreme Court and the protection of minority rights: An empirical examination of racial discrimination cases. |
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http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091268/html/254.html
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| | Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Racial discrimination - |
 | | Often, it has been so widely accepted in certain forms as to amount to rule of law. |  | | Racially discriminating actions may include racial segregation, redlining, or differing reactions by employers or neighbors. |  | | In some cases, the basis for discrimination is simply that the people discriminating perceive the targets of discrimination to be different from themselves. |
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| | Racial Nondiscrimination - dKosopedia |
 | | Rulings by the Supreme Court on civil-rights issues as they pertain to race: |  | | Add content about racial non-discrimination, it's history, analysis of key arguments and milestones here. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Workplace Rights : Racial Discrimination |
 | | Coalition Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act in order to Protect the Rights of Victims of Discrimination, Consumer Fraud and Toxic Pollution |  | | Workplace Rights : Racial Discrimination - Legal Documents |  | | Workplace Rights : Racial Discrimination - Legislative Documents |
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| | Racial Discrimination |
 | | Race relations laws are reasonably uniform ~multi-national is the authority of Article 13 EU Directive regarding race equality in respect of e.g. |  | | But, racial discrimination often takes place in the form of what is called in law Indirect Racial Discrimination -by imposing a requirement which cannot reasonably be justified and which only members of a particular e.g. |  | | One, without subjecting to racial discrimination, can be liable for racial discrimination in race relations law. |
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| | Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, The: Peremptory Challenges and Racial Discrimination: The Effects of Miller-El v. ... |
 | | The majority in Batson did not foresee any difficulties for trial courts in implementing this three-step process during a Batson hearing. |  | | Racial bias in jury selection has a long history in the United States.23 As early as 1880, the Supreme Court was proactive in ending the "systematic exclusion" of blacks from juries.24 In Strauder v. |  | | As early as 1880, the Supreme Court explicitly held that it was unconstitutional to deny a citizen the right to serve on a jury based on |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3975/is_200407/ai_n9454341
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| | Dennis Kucinich on Racial Discrimination |
 | | It is time to face the fact that institutional racism still exists and must be treated with education -- and legal enforcement. |  | | Police departments that consistently engage in racial profiling must be subject to federal penalties. |  | | The President should sign an executive order ending all forms of racial profiling. |
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| | Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website: Racial Discrimination |
 | | assisting the Federal Court or Federal Magistrates Service in court cases relating to race discrimination where appropriate. |  | | The RDA covers discrimination in areas such as employment, renting or buying property, the provision of goods and services, accessing public places and in advertising. |  | | The submission discusses the circumstances in which restricting the supply of alcohol to Indigenous people may be lawful under the Racial Discrimination Act. |
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| | Is there racial discrimination in Singapore |
 | | This slogan, I believe, is trying to defuse racial tensions by stating that only Malaysians matter; whether they are Chinese or Malays should not be an issue of contentment. |  | | I would state my own observation that, while it may be true that there are racial discrimination in the US, at least they are aware of it and are still trying to decide the best way to resolve it. |  | | Interestingly, the PAP government, in the period between 1959 to 1964, fought hard to be part of the Malaysian federation with the well-known slogan 'Malaysian Malaysia'. |
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| | Racial Discrimination |
 | | There are powerful laws to stop this happening. |  | | The leaflets are regularly updated but the law may have changed since they were printed so the information in them may be incorrect or out of date. |  | | Discrimination when renting or buying a house or flat |
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| | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
 | | The Committee also publishes its interpretation of the content of human rights provisions, known as general recommendations (or general comments), on thematic issues and organizes |  | | All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. |  | | The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties. |
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| | RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 - List of Sections |
 | | With the exception of numbered Acts and Act compilations, the data on this site may not be up to date. |  | | ScheduleInternational Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination |  | | Offensive behaviour because of race, colour or national or ethnic origin |
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| | Discrimination, Racial Discrimination - Fagan and Fagan |
 | | When we review your case, we will give you an honest, to-the-point evaluation. |  | | Our firm fights upon behalf of people who have suffered discrimination in their apartments, homes, condominiums, or while shopping in places of business because we believe that justice must be served. |  | | Our goal is to stop discrimination and to make the wrongdoers pay money to you for what they have done. |
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| | Racial Privacy Initiative / An invitation to racial discrimination |
 | | A vote against the Racial Privacy Initiative is a vote for the peoples' right to know that California's businesses and government agencies are acting in a way that is fair to all Californians. |  | | The authors of the Racial Privacy Initiative, anticipating correctly that the police would vigorously oppose a total ban on using racial data, are making an exemption for those who work in the criminal justice system. |  | | The idea of "racial privacy" is a transparent fiction that renders government powerless to bring to justice those who use race to discriminate because there is no record- keeping of that discrimination. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/10/ED83663.DTL
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| | Racial Profiling at the Airport - Discrimination we're afraid to be against. By Michael Kinsley |
 | | Without the civil rights laws, employers with nothing personal against blacks might well decide that hiring whites is more cost-efficient than judging each jobseeker on his or her individual merits. |  | | They are wrong even if they are statistically valid, and even if not acting on them imposes a real cost. |  | | All decisions about whom to hire, whom to admit, whose suitcase to ransack as he's rushing to catch a plane are based on generalizations from observable characteristics to unobservable ones. |
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| | SFBG News: December 23, 1998: No room at the bank |
 | | She wouldn't comment on Ruvalcaba's case or on any other specific claims of discrimination. |  | | Racial discrimination is not limited to the private sector: in Oakland, ACORN reports, African Americans seeking government-backed loans were rejected more than white applicants by a ratio of three to two. |  | | Sentinel executive director Mona Breed told us that much of the discrimination these testers experience is quite subtle: minority members are often quoted different terms and conditions or are not offered the full range of available programs. |
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| | Discrimination based on Race |
 | | Students may believe that racism is limited to individual actions; they may be unfamiliar with the concept of institutional racism which occurs when racism is supported by governmental policies and laws. |  | | - Efforts to resist persecution and discrimination are more difficult when people are denied civil, economic, and social rights. |  | | Have students generate any previous knowledge they may have about the Holocaust or antisemitism. |
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| | CNN.com - Airlines face post 9/11 racial profiling, discrimination suits - June 4, 2002 |
 | | The separate suits were filed against Continental, American, United and Northwest airlines in federal courts, respectively, in Newark, Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Francisco. |  | | Continental spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said he could not comment on the specific cases but said, "Continental does have a strong policy against discrimination in any form." |  | | The suit against Northwest was filed by Arshad Chowdhury, 25, a U.S. citizen born to Bangladeshi parents, who was removed from a San Francisco to Pittsburgh flight last October 23. |
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| | Press kit: Issues - Gender and Racial Discrimination - World Conference Against Racism |
 | | Through its "gender mainstreaming" policy, the United Nations, for example, is acknowledging the different ways in which gender roles and gender relations shape women's and men's access to rights, resources and opportunities. |  | | The problems were categorized as manifestations of either one form of discrimination or the other, but not both. |  | | While race is one reason for inequality and gender is another, they are not mutually exclusive forms of discrimination. |
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| | Oxfam America: US Department of Agriculture Racial Discrimination Threatens African American Farmers |
 | | The USDA's general counsel for civil rights, Arlean Leland, who investigated the incident, dismissed his act as nothing more than "very poor judgment" and praised Hall as a "committed federal public servant." The message to USDA employees from her decision is that discrimination may continue as usual. |  | | In 1999, on the heels of the CRAT report, a class action racial discrimination suit (Pigford vs. Glickman) was settled with an agreement to provide financial restitution. |  | | Fifteen years before the CRAT report, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission had warned, "unless government policies of neglect and discrimination are changed, there may be no black farmers by the year 2000." |
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http://www.oxfamamerica.org/advocacy/art4066.html
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| | Racial Discrimination and Prejudice |
 | | The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s won the passage of important legislation; decisions of the Supreme Court and regulations of federal agencies have contributed greatly to fighting discrimination, yet it is obvious that a great deal more needs to be done. |  | | Discrimination is expressed in overt behavior, while prejudice is expressed in attitude. |  | | Discrimination has been defined as the unequal treatment of equals. |
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 | | Article 5(c) of CERD guarantees racial equality in the enjoyment of political rights including the right to take part in the government as well as in conducting of public affairs at any level. |  | | The right to public health, medical care, social security and social services is guaranteed to everyone without racial discrimination under Article 5(e)(iv) of CERD. |  | | On December 29, 1981, the PRC acceded to the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination(39) (CERD). |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination, and Federal Policy |
 | | Evidence is presented in the form of statistical research, counterarguments from the lending industry, and transcriptions of two landmark federal court decrees. |  | | Customers interested in this title may also be interested in |  | | This volume, representing the outcome of a May 1993 U.S. HUD conference, seeks to answer two major questions: What evidence is there of discrimination by mortgage lenders? |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877666563?v=glance
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| | Perspective: Is Fannie Mae software biased against minority home buyers? |
 | | Her attorneys are suing Fannie and Freddie for racial discrimination, arguing that the firms' "credit scoring" programs for rating mortgages violate the civil rights of minorities. |  | | Collins, one of Rahmaan's attorneys, contends that credit scoring "is the latest proxy used by insurance companies to redline coverage areas and focus on wealthy white customers. |  | | "We believe these computer programs discriminate against minorities. |
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| | Nat'l Academies Press: Measuring Racial Discrimination |
 | | Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discrimination pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and economic opportunities. |  | | Today, large differences among racial and ethnic groups continue to exist in employment, income and wealth, housing, education, criminal justice, health, and other areas. |  | | While many factors may contribute to such differences, their size and extent suggest that various forms of discriminatory treatment persist in U.S. society and serve to undercut the achievement of equal opportunity. |
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| | Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ... |
 | | Although no documentation has been found to indicate that photographers were explicitly encouraged to photograph racial discrimination signs, the collection includes a significant number of this type of image, which is rarely found in other Prints and Photographs Division collections. |  | | This reference aid includes all the known images of discrimination signs found in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information file of photographic prints. |  | | Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress) |
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| | Racial Discrimination |
 | | The 1924 Immigration Act deemed the Filipinos as neither aliens nor US citizens since they were a colonized people, although technically they were classified as US nationals. |  | | Like other non-whites, Filipinos were racially discriminated against and stereotyped. |  | | They were accused of living in substandard conditions where as many as twenty people slept in one room. |
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| | University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
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| | Racial Discrimination |
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