Sentence examples for american discrimination from inspiring English sources

Beginning with the first major wave of Chinese immigrants during the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800's, the documentary describes the combination of American discrimination and Chinese heritage that led to the development of Chinatowns.

He seldom refrains from raising a hue and cry, emitting howls against American discrimination from his supporters mainly at home.

The Department of Justice announced a sudden investigation into anti-Asian American discrimination in college admissions, signaling a potential shift in its decades-long approach to the policy.

The fact that Captain America skips over all the problems of American discrimination says to me that racism and sexism are still such problems in this country that we've decided it's better not bring them up at all.

At its heart, Black Magic is a civil rights movie and Klores uses brutal footage to show the history of American discrimination and violence against blacks in all aspects of their lives.

The Pentagon has decided to go even farther than it already has on  its commitment to ending pointless and, let's face it, un-American, discrimination against gays and lesbians by allowing them to wear their uniforms should they choose to march in a gay pride parade.

State attorneys general and governors from coast to coast stood up against this un-American discrimination, as did many members of Congress.

Al Jazeera recently pointed out that Asian-American discrimination may not always be discerned right away because we are seen as a 'model minority.' In Oregon, where there is more of a dominant Asian-American population, anyone who cracked a racist comment would be immediately shut down.

Sen. Dan Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, took the Senate floor after the vote to describe how he had to fight his way into the military during World War II because of discrimination against Japanese Americans, discrimination that continues against gays and lesbians today, as well as against undocumented immigrants.

In the 1980s, he worked as a lawyer concentrating on cases involving landlord-tenant disputes, real estate, personal injury and American Indian discrimination issues.

The pianist Art Simmons "spoke movingly of being forced every night to explain" American racial discrimination to Parisians, even as "he could not really explain it to himself," recalled Barbara Sargent, wife of the pastor of the American Church in Paris.