At times in American History government has been seen as a danger to freedom from which individuals need protection or, conversely as a protector of citizen liberties. This portion of my paper will explore the position the government has adapted during different eras of American History. Exposing corruption, expanding democracy, making reforms, improving working conditions and the way of life is what characterized the progressive movement. Citizens demanded a change in numerous areas such as …showed first 75 words of 1600 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1600 total…cold war using it to advance their own aims. In 1954 in a case to be known as Brown versus the Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Many whites in the South believed that doing away with segregation in the schools would lower school standards and demean them. While the United States battled communist abroad, the war of civil rights was reaching its peak at home.