It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. ... In his poem entitled "America", he speaks of the contradictory lifestyle that Americans lived. He refers to America as hell, or a place like it. ... I believe he named this poem "America" to suggest the inconsistency of the American values and the actual American way. There was also an African American author by the name of Langston Hughes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

During my childhood I used to hear about the United States of America as the country of freedom, democracy and of course land of the rich people. ... But when Chuck spoke last week, he certainly didn't speak of the land of the freedom, equality or democracy. I already have heard about the issues he pointed out, however, hearing someone's personal experiences, especially if this someone is as passionate as Chuck, made the Utopian American Dream dissappear for me. ... Chuck also brought up facts from history such as the segregation between the white race and African American race. .....

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Gates and her enmity towards the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, while at the same time she hated blacks, and the prejudice of the American court system in the 1930's by saying they stand for justice but not accepting the statement themselves. ... It is also very prejudice when she mentions democracy, and the way that she is not at all democratic when it comes to the treatment of African Americans. "What does DEMOCRACY mean?" ... The American Courts of the 1930's were also prejudice. Truth and Justice were held as the most basic right for Americans. ...

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The Negro in America. ... World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Democracy Faces a World Order'. ... The American Negro as Artist. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. ...

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The Negro in America. ... World View on Race and Democracy, a Study Guide in Human Group Relations. ... Democracy Faces a World Order'. ... The American Negro as Artist. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. ...

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Americans were afraid that something similar would happen on the West Coast. ... They wrote stories about how Japanese Americans are responsible for Pearl Harbor. ... One hundred twenty thousand Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps. ... "What is this democracy I am to fight for Where is it? ... But the democracy I want to fight for, Hitler is not depriving me of. ...

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First of all, Bambara presents to us a very unusual figure or character, Miss Moore, an African American woman, who has a college degree which was very rare at that time because this story took place somewhere after the segregation ends in the U.S history. ... Moreover, Sugar realized that she had an erroneous concept of what a democracy should be: "I think that this is not much of a democracy if you ask me. ...

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. / That's American" (32-33). This means that even though the speaker is black and the instructor is white; they are the same in the aspect of being an American. ... Because of the white over black democracy in the hierarchy, he too was placed above black people. ...

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According to our text book, The Challenge of Democracy there is a lot of history behind civil rights. ... In 1991 Diane sawyer with ABC-TV filmed two men, one African American and the other one white, who were matched for age, appearance, education, and other qualities. ... The white man received service in stores while the African American was ignored, or in some cases, watched closely. ... There were jobs where the African American was turned down, and apartments for rent that he African American man was told they were no longer available. ... Eighty percent of them are graduating within...

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Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has "murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,"" he thinks that he has "created a new life for himself. It was something that was all his own, and it was the first time...

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When he first launched the UNIA he did not garner as much support as he had hoped in his native country so sought to take his ambitions to America in order to spark the oppressed minds of the African Americans. ... Washington before traveling to America in hopes to receive his support. ... Garvey was aware that in order for Negroes to possess liberty and democracy that so many other countries had acquired would have to be shed. Just as it had been done by America against the British. ... The Negro World wasn't exclusive to just American blacks. ...

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The personal ritual states a series of ideas relevant to contemporary America. These ideas include "the fact that 'life is tragic'; the need to 'apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change'; the importance of discarding 'that collection of myths to which white Americans cling'; the reality that blacks may not rise to power 'but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream'" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. ! ... Baldwin's knife-edged criticism of the failed promises of Ameri...

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• Grade Level: High School

It's a system of exploitation, a political and economic system of exploitation, of outright humiliation, degradation, discrimination-all of the negative things that you can run into... under this system that disguises itself as a democracy ... ... America has a very serious problem. ... America's problem is us. ... He created new ideas about race in America and about unity. ... This group was trying to find black unity in America. ...

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He explained that after War World 1 in 1918, African Americans were faced with one of the lowest points in history since the end of slavery. ... The fear of race riots in the South caused large number of African Americans to move North. The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to show and reflect their talents throughout society. ... According to researchers, Harlem did become the capital of Black America. ... This idea grew stronger following World War I since its major claim was democracy for all. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even though he attended Harvard, the most prestigious school in America, at that time, he still did not feel like he belonged. ... Now DuBois was in his second year and he learned that racism was not restricted to America. ... Literary notes and references During his long life he wrote many great books and informative essays, some of them are Dusk of Dawn, The Philadelphia Negro, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Soul of Black Folks, John Brown, Quest of the Silver Fleece, The Negro, Dark Water, The Gift of Black Folks, Dark Princess, Black Folk then and Now, Dusk of Dawn, Color...

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., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. ... Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. ... They had stood together as American blacks had never before stood together. ... S...

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The ships then traveled to America, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, rum, salt, and other island products. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. ... One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased...

• Word Count: 4457
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School