What elements did Blacks have to accomplish their goals? Inventions, Politics, Jobs all the way back to the motherland Black History has been going on for years and years. ... The things I would like to specifically talk about what black history means to me are courage, attitude, and responsibility. Blacks had a lot of courage back in then and they had to if they wanted any changes to go down or equal rights. ... As a summary, Blacks had to follow guidelines to stay strong , alive, and keep their heads up for the best to come. ...

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The movie shows in detail how things like the Jim Crow Laws limited the rights of blacks, and Mr. ... One part of the movie that bothered me was when one of Vernon's friend that worked with him got killed just because he was sticking up for another black man. ... For me it was one of the parts that bothered me the most but it was also very important. ... If I had a person like Vernon John and Martin Luther King Jr., I would definitely try to make a change and I would have them to thank for giving me all the courage and loyalty to fight for my rights. I would have the courage to stand up t...

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"Well, OK, it seems to always fall on me to tell the truth and, hey, I don't mind. ... If I allow you to be yourself and you allow me to be myself, then we can come together and build a strong union." ... I apologize to the hair industry, but frankly I like both my kinks and my gray strands." ... She tries to explain her writing process: "Like most poets, I carry a two-hole folder with me almost compulsively. ... It's just that like most writers I think I think best when I"m not actually thinking about it, so I carry a book that allowed me to put either something I have thought ...

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Like Douglass, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King realized that white people have committed injustices against blacks and as a result blacks do not have equal rights or opportunities and this has created problems in the black community. ... Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. ... My mom knew to tell me to study X because she was not taught about him in school. Her purpose of me learning about X was to pass on a sense of identity, history, and cultural pride. The claiming back of history and racial pride that Malcolm X st...

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I picked this book because I like reading about someone who was fighting for what they believed in. ... It separated the blacks from the whites. ... Then one day she was so tired to get to the back of the bus (usually where all the blacks seat). ... During one of his book signings a black lady went up to Martin and stabbed him with a sharp letter opener. ... This reminds me about the time at my old school that other kids had to be nice to those kids who weren't. ...

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He did not wish to reunite the black and white communities together, but, rather, to keep the communities separated, blacks on one side, and whites on the other. Malcolm X was not fighting for the freedom of the "little person" who was too weak to fight for them self, black or white, but rather fighting for his black community. ... X was fighting for the full separation of the black and white communities. ... It cannot be taken away from him that he lived a well life and that he died, as did King, like a soldier, for his people. ... This then puts me deep in thought. ...

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The metaphor that stood out to me the most was his one about cashing the check. ... To me, it was easy to comprehend the point he was trying to get across. ... Sometimes, to me, a mental picture in one's own mind can have more affect on the individual than a bunch of crayon scribbles on a blank white sheet of paper. ... There was a problem with American society in the way that they treated the blacks and there needed to be a dramatic change. ... Personally I would have liked to have been there, on that particular day in 1963, to have been able to witness such a profound speech given...

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With the prominent black leaders during this time, blacks were able to have a different outlook on life. ... Which is a greeting used by black Muslims. ... She said, "I could no longer bear it any longer, being named after people who oppress me." ... She had never heard anything like this. ... Someone to make blacks believe in themselves. ...

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Malcolm X was a unique militant leader of the oppressed black race whose life is still remembered today. ... He dropped his last name, considered a "slave name" by Black Muslims, and became Malcolm X. ... However, the insensitive nature of the statement reflected poorly on the Black Muslims" (Finkelman). ... Regarding the march, Malcolm said that he was "puzzled by black enthusiasm for a demonstration run by whites in front of the statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn't like us when he was alive". ... At one time, Malcolm stated, "If I take the kind ...

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Some helped the blacks by giving them rides; others attacked the blacks. ... "If people think of me in that way, I just accept the honor and appreciate it", she says. ... "Four decades later I am still uncomfortable with the credit given to me for starting the bus boycott. I would like (people) to know I was not the only person involved. ... "We don't have enough young people who are concerned and who are exposed to the civil rights movement, and I would like to see more exposure and get their interest", she says, pausing to reflect, "but I think it should just be history, period, and not...

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His father like King's was a Baptist Minister, who was apart of a group dedicated to help blacks (Cone). ... He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ... He told the crowd that, "We've got some difficult days ahead, But it doesn't matter with me now,"" and latter in the speech he promised the people that they would all reach, "the promise land- (Garrow). ... X knew that members of the Nation...

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His father like King's was a Baptist Minister, who was apart of a group dedicated to help blacks (Cone). ... He used the teachings of Islam to tell blacks across the country that white people are responsible for the black community's self-hatred (Malcolm X). ... On his journey he meet white Muslims who treated him like a brother. ... He told the crowd that, "We've got some difficult days ahead, But it doesn't matter with me now,"" and latter in the speech he promised the people that they would all reach, "the promise land- (Garrow). ... X knew that members of the Nation...

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She is best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award. ... (1983), Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975), and Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer prize. The first black woman director in Hollywood, Angelou has written, produced, directed, and star...

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King's inspirational quote while reminding me to continue to have the stamina I have had since childhood. ... His parents taught him about how blacks were treated and why it shouldn't be like that. ... The horrible consequences of being a Black person and standing up for fairness are unpredictable. ... Many people look up to him as their idol and really appreciate what he did for the world including me....

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We, Blacks are people just like the whites, we had families that we loved and wanted to best for them. ... I was anger because they treated us like we did not matter. ... This was a whole new world for me. ... So to me I call it a Dominos Effect. ... The Lincoln Way schools look like college campus while the Rich Schools look like the grade school for the people on the west side of Harlem. ...

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They battled for the right of black people, as human beings, to be acknowledged and treated like human beings and not less than human, second-class citizens. ... SNCC was like the SCLC but tended to be radical. ... After his last speech, it is known that he said "We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop." ... He believed in black nationalism and pride. ... Malcolm preached black pride, reaffirmation and gave black women images of black men they could respect. ...

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He talks about how the values and rights of the black community are being violated. ... He goes even further by saying that the black community has delayed these demonstrations for the last 350 years. ... Dr. king said, that he did go to the court, and waited like any other person and good citizen, then he requested this permit many times. ... They simply didn't want to loose the city to black people. ... He wants me to feel and understand the injustice that is going on in Alabama. ...

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The 15th amendment gave black citizens the right to vote. ... Black Codes or Jim Crow laws, were put in place to limit the movement of blacks' rights and to enforce segregation. ... Since few blacks actually owned property, and that which was owned by blacks was of little value, the schools in black neighborhoods were always of lower quality than those in white neighborhoods. ... However, because she was black she was bussed to the black school. ... The discriminatory practices of Southern City buses were meticulously detailed in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. ...

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Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. ... Martin, like his father and Christian teachings, preached tolerance and denounced violence as a means to achieve something. ... King urged blacks to forgive whites and to not lose sight that the real enemy is oppression. His arguments proved successful as he was acclaimed and received many accolades like a Nobel peace prize and 1963 TIME magazine's Man of the Year. ... Malcolm argued that Martin Luther King, wanted black people to be defenseless as Malcolm clearly and...

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They both felt that the black man was still at the bottom in the eyes of the white man. ... He felt like the white man was depriving the black community of their rights as human beings. ... He felt that every nation and race other than the whites were considered black. ... When it came to the black community if they did not have people like Dr.King to show them that violence was not always the way to solve things, the fear of violence would run rapid. ... As seen today, though racism still runs rapidly through the nation and even the world, but I am grateful for the freedom that I have today ...

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Malcolm Little later looked back at this moment in his life saying, "Even at that young age, I just couldn't believe in the Christian concept of Jesus as someone divine, and no religious person, until I was a man in my twenties and then in prison could tell me anything" (Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X1). ... Elijah wrote to Malcolm Little saying that blacks should not be ashamed of their skin color and that blacks were not inferior to whites; whites were the ones who put blacks down. ... The X was used instead to represent his lost African name like many other African America...

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I just thought you"d like to know. ... Martin Luther King Boulevard is a staple in many black communities throughout the country. ... She goes on to say: "He makes me think that no matter if I am an Asian or not, I can conquer anything and anybody. ... To me racism is almost foreign. ... It's almost like a book you read and think it was just a story. ...

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Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. ... Like overt racism, it can occur individually, institutionally, and culturally. ... Thus they never did really see me". ... Many Whites view Blacks as being different from themselves. ... It almost impossible for two southern white men to murder an African American teenager like Emmett Till was in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. ...

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Since whites believed that black were unsanitary and smelly, when it rained bus drivers would deliberately pass black riders rather than have them on the same bus with "clean" white people. ... Whites who supported black citizens were where treated harshly by their own. For instance, Miss Juliette Morgan, a librarian at Montgomery Public Library, writes in her letter to the Advertiser's editor, "Their cause and their conduct have filled me with great sympathy, pride, humility, and envy. ... On the other hand, the abuse that Blacks faced was much more severe. ... The homes of two black ...

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This has unfortunately happened to others and me more times than we would have liked it to. ... His mother got a broken nose two days after his father got a black eye. ... Whites were completely blinded to the fact that blacks were the same as them. ... As the story continues Socrates explains that the philosopher is like a prisoner as well. When the philosopher was freed he came to the understanding that the shadows the prisoners saw on the wall were not anything like reality. ...

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