., and Alberta Williams King. ... He is not the only person who played a role in changing the world but he definitely stands out as one of the most influencing. ... While he was getting the Poor People Campaign assembled, he made a stop in Tennessee, to support a group of black garbage men that went on strike. When King stepped out of his hotel room in Tennessee and onto the balcony, James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, shot him. ...

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"A Trip to Coontown" was the name of the play and it was a good starting block for black women. ... Bert Williams and George Nash Walker made a musical play by the name of "In Dahomey" in 1902. ... First it all began with theater and plays and then elevated to Jazz in New Orleans. ... They then added music together with the plays to make Black musical theater. ... Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles were a black face comedy act that started at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

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Famous African-American men such as Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, Wesley Snipes, Blair Underwood, Christopher Darden, and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume have also been stopped by police, allegedly for no other reason than the color of their skin. ... For instance, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state police superintendent; Carl Williams for saying that while he did not condone racial profiling, minorities were responsible for most of the country's illegal drug trade (Cannon 72). ... There are actually many contexts in which the law properly forbids us from...

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