She was just one American who demonstrated her rights. ... Early in America's history we faced certain periods of segregation. ... Going back through history you start to realize and view things differently. That is what it is to be an American. ... " Going through the timeline of history you come to a point when you realize that the world around you has changed, topics that were once not discussed freely are now to the point where they are openly discussed. ...

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Even though early in our country's history, not every race was free from oppression, the government was set up so we, the people, could change laws and create a country for everyone. ... Another way in which the American dream of freedom is shown is in the fact that so many people would die, and have died, trying to gain the opportunities provided in America. 75% of the immigration in America is illegal, and most illegal immigrants come to join close family members. ... The reason these people would risk their lives to come to America is for the American dream. ... There is a belief in A...

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America is a land made by many diverse faces all with the similar history of segregation and discrimination that cannot by forgotten. ... Education plays a key role in the freedom of those who were oppressed by the early European colonizers and still lie vital to the break of success of all who seek freedom. ... Takaki speaks of each ethnicity in America and gives voices to their oppression by the Europeans when they lived in America. ... Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. One of the most talked a...

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Women though were not treated fair at all from 1860 to the early 1960's. In the early 1960's women were not treated with at all the same respect as men were treated with in these times. ... This would happen to them through all of the early 1960's. ... For the longest time in American history black people have been treated the most unfair out of anyone in history. ... In the early 1960's black people were still treated like they are no body and they are owned by all white men. ...

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The second volume of Taylor Branch's ambitious history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times begins, approximately, in the spring of 1963 and ends two years later with the assassination of Malcolm X and the first events that culminated in the massive marches in Selma, Alabama in the early spring of 1965. This is narrative history in the grand style. As the author explains, "I have tried to make biography and history reinforce each other by knitting together a number of personal stories along the main seam of an American epoch" (p. xiv). ... This is narrative history in the grand style....

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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. ... While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the So...

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I believe that because not only did he directly address the writers of the newspaper, but included African Americans with their struggles to gain acceptance. ... These examples give him credibility as an intelligent man when he cites from history without the use of history books. ... King uses historical examples to prove his point, using logos which most can understand and giving examples for most African Americans understand. ... Socrates, the Boston Tea Party, and early Christians who gave their lives for what they believed in, these events gave King the edge he needed to be so persuasive...

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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. ... African Americans had the right mind to go out and make some changes. ... Being a responsible African American was a hard thing to do. Africans could have made one simple mistake that could have ended their lives, for example in the early 50's if you was Blackman and saw a white woman walking and whistle to her that was a definite lynching or ...

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People like Mahatma Gandhi, the Boston Massacre and the Civil Rights Movement civil disobedience to be heard and to change the course of history. ... This essay will be analyzing some of the conflicts of civil disobedience throughout history. ... It took a long time but eventually the British rule was lifted from the early colonists in Boston due to the Declaration of Independence. ... This movement was the protest and riot of African Americans that are living in America who want equality and respects with decency. ... " In conclusion, civil disobedience is used a lot in different cou...

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She is also one of the most influential African-Americans in American history. ... Her birth name is Marguerite Johnson, and it wasn't until her early twenties that she was given the name Maya Angelou. ... During the time that Maya was growing up, America was just recovering from the Great Depression and it was also a time when African Americans were oppressed. ... In the early 1960's Maya began to write more extensively. ... History to have the honor of writing and reciting original work at Bill Clinton's Presidential Inauguration (mayaangelou.com). ...

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The protest was started when an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person. ... After her arrest, all African Americans were told to boycott the bus system. ... On Monday December 5 none of the African Americans used the buses, but instead used alternate transportation. ... In the early 60s schools and universities across the country worked together to get equal rights. ... During the 1950s and 60s, people of all races took part in the civil rights movement, a time that changed American history....

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. ... The pictures of Emmett's destroyed body shocked the entire African American population in America. ... This followed the laws that were enforced to segregate African Americans during the mid 1900's. ... Car pools and walking were the ways many African Americans were going about their days. ... King's words were different than most African American preachers of the day. ...

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Civil Disobedience has a long,distinguished history. ... It gaved African Americans the right to vote. ... Background Throughout the history of the United States, African Americans have resisted, first against the institution of slavery and later second-class citizenship and racial segregation. ... Early African American Responses African Americans responded in a variety of ways. Booker T Washington, the early 20th To What Extent 6 century's leadin...

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In 1965, the Voting Rights Act warranted African American suffrage and for the first time in American history, Blacks were able to register to vote without legal contention. ... By exposing racial injustice and inequalities to the mass populace, civil rights leaders achieved what could perhaps not have been accomplished a few decades earlier: recognition. ... Covertly and in modern-day fashion, institutionalized racism would be exemplified through such methods as social studies curriculums which focus only on European American history and not the history ethnic groups. ... To this day, only po...

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Renegades The song Renegades of Funk by Rage against the Machine is about people, who have altered the course of history by changing the system. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... This early exposure to the beliefs of Marcus Garvey by his father contributed to his beliefs in separatism latter in his life (Malcolm X). ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. ... A week earlier X's home was firebombed. ...

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The song Renegades of Funk by Rage against the Machine is about people, who have altered the course of history by changing the system. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... This early exposure to the beliefs of Marcus Garvey by his father contributed to his beliefs in separatism latter in his life (Malcolm X). ... X traveled America teaching blacks their history, which the white people have taken away from them. ... A week earlier X's home was firebombed. ...

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Two years earlier half of the crowd would have been their ages, but with Martin Luther King's death many of the younger people had left the program" page 28, a better understanding of the effect Martin Luther King Jr.'s death had on the African American community and it's faith in the civil rights movement would help the reader realize that it was not only in fictional St. ... Immediately following King's death, riots broke out across America. ... In the African-American community feelings of animosity for whites began to grow, after all it was a white man that killed King...

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King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church, much like his father, Martin Luther King Sr, who was the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church. ... In late 1967, King initiated a Poor People's Campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. ... The events which took place in and around his life were earth shattering, and represented an America which was hostile and quite different from America as we see it today. Without a doubt, African-Americans needed a Martin Luther King, but above all America in general needed h...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. ... The Freemasons created a whole new place for African Americans. ... With this organization, African American masons challenges the hypocrisy of white Americans by demanding self-respect and equality. ...

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A master strategist and an activist for Civil Rights, Bayard Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. ... Other historians have argued that the main reason why Rustin was written out of the history books is because he stayed true to a social agenda that had benefited all groups who were oppressed at the time that the civil rights movement had grown to be politically narrow. ... Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he was formerly tie...

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Many white Americans agreed with Kennedy's approach in the early sixties, a fact revealed in the press of the day. ... Most white Americans wanted to stay uninvolved because the civil rights movement was portrayed as an "unholy- mess. ... King stated in 1957, at his parish in Montgomery, Alabama: History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressor. ... "King described it as America's worst city for racism."" ... It was one of the most pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement. ...

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My mother stressed learning about him to know my own black history. ... 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 stressed was given to me by my mother. ... Cone also utilizes oral history. ... Cone uses oral history in order to analyze King's thoughts on gender. ...

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Malcom disagreed with all the early race protest saying they didn't spread the black word out fast enough. ... This is where Martian made his powerful "I have a dream speech" which made him a part of history forever. ... He spread the ideas of black nationalism, a belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American Community. ...

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If one could name two of the most important and iconic African American activist they would probably name Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. Although both of them would collide when it came to their ideologies, and suggestions on what the African American communities should do to overcome the tyranny of oppression that came about from the racial resentment in America and an unjust system; they both aimed for the same ambitions: Racial integration, equality, and building a sustai...

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Throughout all of American history, many individuals have stood up for the justice that they believed they deserved. ... In Martin Luther's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", he talks about how the African-American people were being treated unfairly by an unjust law. ... One of the most influential figures in American thought and literature also saw a need for civil disobedience. ... He also goes onto to talk about how many early Christians were persecuted and even killed for standing up against certain unjust Roman laws. ... Most American in their right senses should resent it as well."...

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