Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The films, while popular, suffered backlash for disproportionate numbers of stereotypical film characters showing bad or questionable motives, including most roles as criminals resisting arrest. However, the genre does rank among the first in which black characters and communities are the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, villains, or victims of brutality.[1] The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s.
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District courts have original jurisdiction over cases involving federal laws (including maritime, patent, and copyright law). That is, they serve as the venues in which jury trials are executed. US courts of appeals are forums in which decisions made in district courts may be appealed or considered again. This does not mean that another trial will occur at the appellate court. Circuit courts consider any possible mistakes or misinterpretations of the law made by the district court judges. In a sense, circuit courts merely serve as checks on the performance of district court judges.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
<span>Martin Luther King, Jr. was the instrumental leader of the
civil rights movement; he believed in non-violence and civil disobedience; he
was head of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and then the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the
Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. (King was born Michael
but in 1934 his father—Rev. Michael King, Sr.—returned home from Europe where
he had toured the site where Martin Luther had begun the Protestant Reformation
and upon returning home he changed his name as well as his sons.) He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948
at age nineteen and earned his Ph.D. in Theology from Boston University in
1955. King married Coretta Scott on June
18, 1953 and they had four children.
While at Crozer Theological Seminary, King first became acquainted with
the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, which influenced him greatly in his future years. In 1953, King became the pastor of the Dexter
Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was selected to lead the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was then instrumental in the founding of
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King led the SCLC in several
triumphs over racial injustices and became a symbol of the Civil Rights
Movement. His is probably most
remembered for his famous “I have a Dream” speech which came at the conclusion
the Civil Rights March on Washington which he had spearheaded. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in
Memphis, Tennessee while he stood on his hotel balcony. James Earl Ray was arrested and convicted of
the crime. In 1986. </span>
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