Jane's obstinacy persists for a few weeks until she and Ned are completely exhausted from walking. Finally they catch a ride with a poor white man named Job who lets them sleep at his house and takes them the next day to a plantation run by Mr. ... His friends and family remind him that a white man cannot love a black woman, but one night he goes to her house and asks her to marry him anyhow. ... On the day that they all are to march to the courthouse in protest, however, Jimmy is shot dead. ... With the assistance of one young black man, Jane bravely encourages the people to march and ta...

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Imagine a group of one or two hundred walking through here. Man, I want to go home. ... Man this sucks! ... It is time for breakfast, my first meal here, and as we are lined up in the mini yard waiting to go into the cafeteria there are shouts of "STAND TO THE RIGHT, DEAD MAN WALKING!!!" ... Man I was dying for one. ...

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Sometimes, this masking meant shuffling and feigning irresponsibility; sometimes, it meant turning the other cheek and walking away rather than responding to white insults. ... During this time there was no longer room for the passive African Americans, willing to accept the white man's cruelty. ... Although the Jim Crow South lays dead and buried, this era is only a few decades in our past. ...

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Then the movement took place when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a bus. ... Or if a black man walks in the presence of one or several KKK members, it would be unsafe for the black person. ... A 49 year old black man by the name of James Bryd Jr. was dragged by the back of a pickup truck (Boven). Police got the call of a dead body and the man's torso was found first, right arm second. ... If only that feeling of walking in public and being looked at the wrong way cou...

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He was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. ... In the United States, ordinary American citizens such as Rosa Parks, Zecozy Williams, and Jim Zwerg (a white man) revolutionized the system of segregation. ... Other black citizens found other transportation alternatives, such as walking. ...

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We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ... Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last ag...

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• Grade Level: High School