However, it may also be possible that such social movements as multi-culturalism are forging a New America. ... There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. ... The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely as centers for defense research, for the education of a vast new public, and as employers of creative writers and as arbiters of taste. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Amer...

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To begin, freemasonry is believed by masons to have been around since the time of Solomon, but the first official Masonic lodge was built in England in 17172. ... Prince Hall, an ex-slave, became a mason while fighting in the American Revolution alongside white soldiers who were freemasons. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. Upon returning from the revolution and opening the first black lodge in Boston, MA, Hall was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. ... In Hall's...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. ... In the begin of the twentieth century only few Blacks had managed to enter the middle-class. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-class took an active part in the struggle for integration in the American society. With the help of the Christian church they managed to ...

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This culture marked an important period in the African American community. This music was the mark of an evolution in the African American culture. ... These African American leaders initially underestimated the true impact of the culture. ... The mindset of people especially African American, Hispanics and other minorities must change. ... Until we as minorities begin to think and believe that there is some much more to life and ourselves then what we have been told, the revolution of the hip-hop culture back to its origin will not occur. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. ... The Civil Rights Movement has also been called the Black Freedom Movement, the Negro Revolution, and the Second Reconstruction. ... At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. ... The national media event dramatized the seriousness of the desegregation for many Americans....

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. ... Capitalism was though to be a perfect fit for American ideas because it was a system that was designed to work on a basis of supply and demand. ... The central idea with Capitalism that came out of the second Industrial Revolution was that all people of society would act in a way that would benefit everyone and that under no circumstances act for only their own best interests. ... Only the factory owners saw this sys...

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Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... Some could argue that America shows some similarities to a racial caste system. ... According to The New Jim Crow, the racial caste system began before America was even a nation. ... When the American Revolution ended, the Constitution was drafted. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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