On July 5th 1852, Frederick Douglass gave his speech, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," to a group of white abolitionist women in Rochester, New York. ... The speech talks about the equality of slaves to the white people in terms of manhood, and in the eyes of god. ... This document shows that the blacks or just people in general strongly value freedom and society. ...
In the age of Jim Crow racial inequality was one of the struggles that African American people had to tolerate. ... It was prohibited to step a foot on the white man's land at any time. ... The public places did not want to be shared with the black people. Discrimination caused a lot of frustration and unhappiness to those people. ... Experiencing this state of favorable position over other people results into segregation and discrimination. ...
President Obama's main focus is to help out middle-class Americans because when President Bush was in the White House many Americans were struggling and the the United States nearly slipped into a depression. Obama helped many middle class people find jobs because he was able to create new jobs for many thousands of men and women in America. ... He also trys to help people that don't have health insurance. ...
Are We a Melting Pot? Immigration creates diversity which is the quality of being different.(pg. 339) Different definitely does not mean bad, but others do not feel that same way. Early immigrants into the United States were met with harsh tension. A fight between the Old and the New, the new a...
