Dress Codes

How can we revise dress codes to fair and relevant to everyone? A huge problem that many students in the U.S. can relate to is unfair dress codes. If you view a public school code distinguished between male and female clothing articles, there is a huge differences. Codes can be biased toward races or cultures as well as between those established for male or female students. The dress codes should be revised to fit a fair outline. I am not requesting that we are allowed to wear revealing clothing or anything really irrational; I am requesting that they are fair between different circumstances.

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Defining points of the Civil Rights movement
-May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court decides that segregation in public schools is a violation of the Constitution in the Brown V. Board of Education case.

-December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks kicks off the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus. Rosa was already involved in politics and was chosen to be the face of the revolution.

-September 25, 1957: Federal troops are sent to Central High School in Little Rock under order of President Eisenhower. They were sent to establish a desegregation order because the schools were not following it.

-February 1, 1960: A group of 4 black college students spark sit-in protests at a lunch counter in Greensboro.

-April 3, 1963: The protests at Birmingham start

-August 28, 1963: A crowd of 250,000 people march for freedom in Washington D.C., and MLK gives his iconic "I have a Dream" speech.

-July 2, 1964: The Civil Rights act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson

-August 6, 1965: The Voting Rights act is passed

-April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated