WWII initiated the migration of a truly vast amount of American people. Numerous workers started to move to their industries in which they worked for the military producing arms as well as other accessories pertinent to military weapons. ... The war not only affected whites, but also affected black people in America as well. ... In turn, black people had to push much harder for their rights than whites did because they were a minority. ... Overall, WWII made a number of significant changes on American peoples' lifestyle, socially, economically, and politically. ...

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Peoples of African descent were visibly absent in any scholarship or intellectual discourse that dealt with human civilization. ... In the words of Ralph Crowder, "the observance must be a testimony to those African pioneers who struggled to affirm the humanity of African peoples and a challenge to the present generation to protect and preserve...the humanity of all peoples of African descent." ... He was nicknamed Satchmo because some people said that his mouth was like a satchel. ... He later moved to Harlem, New York, and soon became a preeminent artist. ... DuBois became a teacher and ...

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With all of these people moving into Chicago there had to be more housing, and there were many houses built to accommodate all the people. ... Lindner's proposal to not move into Clybourne. ... Chicago boomed with people and it was hard for some people to find housing. ... It was wrong and unconstitutional what people did to African Americans just so they wouldn't move into their subdivision. Today all people are free to move and live wherever they want to be. ...

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Richard had many reasons on why he wanted to move to Chicago. However, he also had motives that caused him to move. ... With this job, Richard experiences total demoralization and feels very violated by the white people that he becomes ashamed. ... Eventually they become reunited and move to Jackson. ... Richard knows that he must tell people a lie about moving to Chicago because the Southern white people do not like when blacks move to the North because it implies that the blacks do not like the way they are treated in the South. ...

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King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. Once he moved to Boston he became involved in drugs and gangs. He then moved to New York, and his life did not change. ...

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King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. Once he moved to Boston he became involved in drugs and gangs. He then moved to New York, and his life did not change. ...

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Richard projects this hatred that he has towards his family at the white people that he has heard so much about doing bad things to blacks. ... As he is moved around his is moved from school to school were he learns to defend himself and gain respect from the children in school. ... Richard finally saves up enough money to move out on his own. ... He and his brother decide to save their money and move up north, but not let anyone know about it. ... Not only easy to read, but it also gave me information about how hard some people really did have it back in the 1900's. ...

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Black people were not allowed to live in white neighborhoods, children had to go to different schools and they were not allowed to use the same public facilities as the white people such as, bathrooms, public transportation, water fountains, and some public places. ... When the Youngers moved to Clybourn Park nothing happened to them. She did not show all the bad things that happened to her or to her family when she moved with only one purpose. ... She wants black people, as her father, to keep fighting to end segregation. She does not want black people to lose their hope to ever get equality...

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They were afraid that presence of the black person in the neighborhood would drive the prices of homes down and that more black people may move in to neighborhood. ... Toward the end of the movie she takes the kids and moves in with her mother to Indiana. George comes to grips with his blackness so he moves into black neighborhood and opens up his own insurance agency. Overall this movie paints a good picture of society and the way people deal with race. ... People thought that his penis size is bigger, kid in the store thought that he was there to rob him. ...

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In the movie Native Son Thomas Bigger speaks of talking back and fight for his rights against white people, but Bigger keeps all his thoughts and actions to himself while around white people. ... However, unlike Bigger Thomas Richard Wright shows his hate more openly and talks in a normal tone of voice to a white people when black people are expected to talk in a lower softer weaker voice that that of the white people. ... Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as hi...

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The Younger family is a poor black people, but they"re still proud of their morals and values. ... Lindner and help the family to move to the new house. ... The white region where the Younger family wants to move in, doesn't like them because they are black. ... So they send the representative and even try to buy the house so that the blacks aren't going to move in. ... But later, because of the decision to move to the new house, they are brought back and decide together. ...

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It is about the same size and it is the same in every aspect except one, there are no black people who live there. ... I can't understand how people can believe that there are such huge differences between them. One of my friends told me about a black family that moved into the town once. He said that they had a girl that was his age and him and his friends were friends with her, but like after a week the family just moved. ... All the towns around Chapmanville have quite a few people of different races and they don't seem to care either. ...

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There was a lot of discrimination going on at this time, so Maya had to deal with a lot of prejudice people which most kids today don"t have to deal with. ... Maya and her brother, Bailey, had to be moved back and forth across the South to see their "Mother Dear". ... She and her bother moved back to Stamps with their Momma and there she saw things that normal 10 year olds shouldn"t see (We"ll just leave it at that). When she was a little older she moved back to live with her Mother Dear. ... This was a big deal considering that people back then wouldn"t hire black woman to do that job. ...

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I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989. ... Yet when I moved to Oklahoma I discovered that many of the small towns around me were segregated. ... He said that keeping people around me that were trouble meant that people would look at me as being trouble. ... People like what, I thought. ... My husband had a crippling wreck and we were forced to move into public housing. ...

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This shows how the characters were tired of the living conditions of the apartment and wanted to move on to something better. ... Mama aint no black people living in Clybourne Park" (Hansberry 72). ... " However, it cleared the path and let others move closer to achieving their dream. ... With this being so it also made it hard for black people to be entitled to the American Dream. ... Like Black people in the 50's when the Economy was good and people could afford luxurious things, except for them due to their barrier of race. ...

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She then saw racial differences between blacks and yellow skinned people. ... Then again when her and her family moved to a new town after her mom divorced her dad and her mom's new boyfriend was yellow and the rest of his family was yellow. The yellow people didn't like her mom just because she was black and was going out with a yellow skinned male. ... Like when she moved after her mom divorced her dad the white kids had roller skates to play with as she only had her siblings to play with and make up games for her and her brother and sister to play. ... Then the dark skinned pe...

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Frederick Douglass "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world." ... , a work created to convince people that slavery is indeed a positive endeavor. ... Fitzhugh claims that slaves are "the freest people in the world," that they can "sleep at any hour" and "luxuriate in corporeal and mental repose." ... No words, no tears, not prayers, from his gory victim seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose" (p. 244). ... Fitzhugh's paper states that black people are "unfitted for the mechanic arts, for trade, and all skillf...

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From 1948 when her family moved out of the projects and into the large wooden house on Center Street she is driven into the world of white hostility. Her family was the first black family to move into the area soon to be dubbed "Dynamite Hill" due to upcoming racially motivated hate bombings. ... Angela speaks of her mother, "through her own political work, she had learned that it was possible for white people to walk out of their skin and respond with the integrity of human beings. She tried so hard to make her little girl see white people not so much as what they were as in terms of their po...

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New York City's business oriented leadership was enough was enough to draw people from all walks of life. ... In 1624, the Dutch West India Company sent 110 people to the island that Hudson discovered. ... Under British control, the population grew to over 5,000 people in 30 years and with it the economy grew as well. ... By 1771, about 22,000 people resided in NYC. ... Street lighting was also installed and paid by the people who lived there. ...

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Some African-American people will never forget the way they and their ancestors were treated by the "white" people. ... Some white people still think that black people are no good for anything but being slaves. ... One of these people who said that it was a racist crime is part of an African American organization and he says that there is an imaginary line in Staten Island where on one side are the white people and on the other are the black people. ... Where she moved to were only some Asians and Spanish people. I was kind of surprised to see the way she occasionally glanced at them with a ba...

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Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats and move back. While the other three obeyed the driver's demand and moved back, Rosa Parks furiously refused to move back. ... Many people walked to work even in cold, rainy weather. ...

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In early Americas black people were not considered people but animals. ... In theory, people are equal in the eyes of law but it is not real in society. ... Sometimes people are racists because they are ignorant of change. ... So they only have the belief like the majority of the people. ... But if we move to a more civilized society, we can gradually decrease racism and prejudice. ...

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In early Americas black people were not considered people but animals. ... In theory, people are equal in the eyes of law but it is not real in society. ... Sometimes people are racists because they are ignorant of change. ... So they only have the belief like the majority of the people. ... But if we move to a more civilized society, we can gradually decrease racism and prejudice. ...

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His mother, Mallie McGriff Robinson, then moved to Pasadena, California to find work (James 5). ... Not long after the family moved to Pasadena, California Robinson's mother enrolled him into Pasadena Junior College. ... In 1944 Robinson faced a court-martial for refusing to move to the rear of an Army bus (42). ... People at this time were consistently brutal in their comments towards blacks. ... His legacy and inspiration he gives to athletes and people of all color (James 189). ...

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A white man from an upscale family managed to comfort and calm this large gathering of mainly African-American people. ... His next statement was, "In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence their evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization -- black people ...

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