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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    The tyrant's tools of oppression include, for example, extremely harsh punishments for "unpatriotic" statements; developing a secret police force; prohibiting freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press; controlling the monetary system and economy; and imprisoning or killing activists or other leaders who might pose a ...

  3. List of active separatist movements in North America - Wikipedia

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    Political party (or parties): for political parties involved in a political system to push for autonomy or secession. Militant organisation(s): for armed organisations. Advocacy group(s): for non-belligerent, non-politically participatory entities .

  4. Political repression - Wikipedia

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    Goldstein, Robert Justin, Political Repression in Modern America (University of Illinois Press, 1978, 2001) ISBN 0-8467-0301-7. Jensen, Joan M. Army Surveillance in America, 1775 - 1980. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1991. ISBN 0-300-04668-5. Talbert Jr. Roy. Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917 - 1941. Jackson.

  5. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Anti-Catholic sentiment, which appeared in North America with the first Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England in the early 17th century, remained evident in the United States up to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, who went on to become the first Catholic U.S. president in 1961.

  6. Racism against Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans are overrepresented and receive harsher sentences in the criminal justice system, and experience severe disparities in health and healthcare. Racism, oppression , and discrimination persist, fueling a crisis of violence against Native Americans, compounded by societal indifference.

  7. Racism against African Americans - Wikipedia

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    [92] [93] Particularly during the 19th and early 20th centuries, school textbooks and other teaching materials emphasized the biological and social inferiority of Black Americans, consistently portraying Black people as simple, irresponsible, and oftentimes, in situations of suffering that were implied to be their fault (and not the effects of ...

  8. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Racial segregation of inmates was abolished. And the trusty system, which allowed certain inmates to have power and control over others, was also abolished. [73] More recently, the disparity between the racial compositions of inmates in the American prison system has led to concerns that the U.S. Justice system furthers a "new apartheid". [74]

  9. Racial inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [78] According to a report by the National Council of La Raza, research obstacles undermine the census of Latinos in prison, and "Latinos in the criminal justice system are seriously undercounted. The true extent of the overrepresentation of Latinos in the system probably is significantly greater than researchers have been able to document. [79]