13th Amendment Annotated Bibliography - 4769 Words

Joseph Cruz 3/22/2012 Annotated Bibliography: 13th Amendment The genre of â€Å"Saving the Right to Organize† would be an article. This would be a secondary source because it is an article, and it refines the primary source. The topic of this source would be that it focuses on the 13th Amendment replacing the Wagner Act on labor movements in the U.S. Percentage of U.S. workers who were unionized in 1953. A good thesis from this source would be Mark Dudzic’s words, â€Å"Articulating [worker] right[s] solely as an individual [human] right leads to its balancing with other rights .. .for example. . . the â€Å"free speech rights† of employers.† This thesis shows that workers that had rights as an individual led to the balancing of other†¦show more content†¦It was written after the time that the primary source, the 13th Amendment, was written. The topic of this article would be that it focuses on the movements, events, and causes leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 196 4. Another topic would be how John F. Kennedy addressed his opinion in civil rights and how at first he was slow about progressing the civil rights movement, but then he saw the violence stirring up in the South and gave one of the best civil rights speeches ever. A good thesis from this article would be, â€Å"A trio of amendments to the U.S. Constitution was meant to help integrate blacks into society. The 13th Amendment, which became law in 1865, abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment (1868) gave all Americans equal protection under the law. The 15th Amendment (1870) proclaimed that voting rights should not be infringed by race, color, or previous servitude.† This was quoted from the article and it shows that these amendments were set out to make all blacks the rights and freedom that everyone else had. The thesis is supported by giving proof that not only the 13th Amendment allowed blacks to obtain the same rights as everyone else had. It introduces the Jim Crow Laws which band colored people from being able to go to certain restaurants, movie theaters, etc. Eventually they were banished