African American's Great Migration to a better Economy and Freedom After the Reconstruction era the African American's population changed in the south during the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... The Jim Crow laws were a big reason why the African Americans moved. ... Many African Americans found this as an advantage to change their economy. ... Soon the Whites would lessen the African American control on these towns. ... The African Americans brought with them to these states many of their African cultures though art, dance, music and life African heritage, which are seen t...

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The influence of African culture into the southern colonies was very strong due to the large amount of African slaves. With their free labor, they brought music, dance and language to the America's, making it the most diverse region in the world at the time. ... It is said that millions of black men and women were kidnapped from their homes in Africa, often by local tribal leaders, and were brought to the Americas by aristocrats profiteering from their vulnerability. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the freedom that equally deserved. ... Ku Klux Clan - The KKK was created after the Civil War as means of rebelling against the Reconstruction plans and the plans to give the African-Americans equal rights. ... Ghost Dance Movement - This was brought about by a Paiute prophet named Wovoka in 1888. ...

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Most of these mascots perform at halftime during games and dance around, pretending to be doing sacred dances. ... It is like someone who is not African American or black telling rappers who are African American or black not to use the n-word in their songs/music. ...

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1.) The Film draws you into the Lakota lifestyle and makes you feel sympathetic toward the Native Americans by having them speak in their native language. This made them appear as if they were ordinary people like a person from today's world. Also the film showed how they interacted with each other ...

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These natives retreated to either to a Dance Ghost camps or with Red Cloud "one of the last remaining great chiefs" at Pine Ridge. ... We stress the mistreatment of the African Americans when they came to this country, and how we as Americans would never be the same after such a dark past. ...

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(The reserved Victor, impatient with Thomas's chatter, accuses him of having learned most of what he knows about Indians by watching ``Dances With Wolves,'' and advises him to spend more time ``looking stoic.'') ... It is Victor, for instance, who accuses Thomas of having gotten his ideas of Indian behavior from too many viewings of "Dances With Wolves" and advises him to quit grinning, start scowling and toughen up. ...

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The Plight of The North American Indians The history and culture of the American Indian is sadly misrepresented because of culture biases and inaccurate reports. In order to give a more accurate report of the American Indian one must look at period before the Euro...

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• Grade Level: High School