The relationship between these two first begins by obtaining freedom. ... With this revolution, all people now have the ability to act however they want and because of this they are considered equal. ... Racial equality was another movement in the mid-19th century that was important in America's history. ... Similar to the French citizens after their own revolution, blacks did not know what to do with their newfound freedom because they had been excessively dependant on their masters. ... These days freedom maybe taken for granted, but without equality freedom will not get you far in ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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The novel can be looked upon as a strong censure of the bigotry and sexism that defrauded African- American women in the American South. ... Introduction "A male dominated society of the early twentieth century in America defined gender roles which each individual would subscribe to. ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. ... Womanism is the counter-revolution, the realisation, that 'feminism' does not recognise the perspectives of the Black women. ... Set in the backdr...

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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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