Willalee was the son of the black family who helped work the farm. ... Jimmy Carter's youth consisted of living on a large farm in Georgia. ... On the farm he lived on he wondered why that a half century after the "War Between the States" (17) his families "could not forget that we had been conquered while most of our neighbors were black people whose grandparents had been liberated in the same conflict. ... Jim lived on a farm in North Carolina were he lived with his three uncles and his mother. They were a few black field hands who helped tend the farm. ...

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For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. ... Some of these women were young and just looking for some money and to get out of a family home. ... These women had responsibility to keep their babies and families fed and clothed. In their society, one family was part of a larger and more important group. ... European women certainly never farmed or did hard laboring tasks unless she was absolutely forced to due to economic despair. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. ... The laws were supposed to strengthen his sense of responsibility to both his family and his neighbors. ... "Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual in...

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Only when the right to vote, hold office and equality gained, could African American women be concerned about their home, family, and work environments. ... These women left their homes, and in some cases, family, to fight for the rights of the race above gender, and, ultimately, got little to no credit for their efforts. ... These women left their homes and families and very few get credit for the sacrifices made because of the view of their roles and the discouragement of the recording of their efforts. ... Combined, these roles represented a curious sort of status for Hamer the wife, fa...

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Slaves were used for hard labor out in the fields of farms and plantations to keep the southern economy progressing. ... Since slaves were the people that worked out in the fields on plantations and farms, they played a major role in the economy of the nation in the 1600s and 1700s. ... The comforts of raising their own families, going into whatever profession they choose, even eating whatever food they desire to eat. ...

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According to Gruesser, Mama refers to herself as a "large big boned woman like an ox and is always working hard on the farm. ... These are things that a family provides. ... Because Dee has different views than her family, she has created a wedge in her family relationship (Hoel 2 of 6). ... Family tradition is passed down through the art of the quilts made by the women in a family. ... The quilts are considered a family legacy. ...

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They went through somewhat parallel struggles including the amount of servitude they provided, their family situations, and political rank in the government. ... Crockett who had family was in fact not as close to them as he would have liked to have been. During a good portion of his childhood, his father was poor so he would send Davy to work on different farms, so he could provide money for their family. ... "The joy of my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings..."... When C...

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CHILDHOOD YEARS DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 7, 1817 PLACE OF BIRTH: TUCKAHOE, MD FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND"S EASTERN SHORE. ... FAMILY LIFE DOUGLASS WAS MARRIED TO ANNA MURRY A BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN. ...

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Clarence got treated better just because of his race, even though he was very rude to the child and the family he visited. ... He works on a farm and has always wanted a gun. He sees himself as restricted because he can't get what he wants partly because of his family and his race. ...

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The farm land their grandparents owned in Pinelevel was very small, but it kept everyone fed. ... She felt as if she needed to help support her family and provide a sense of higher income for them, being that her father had left her family. ... During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, however, Rosa Parks and her family received threats and were continually harassed. ...

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He was chosen for several reasons; he was too new in town to have made any enemies, he was young as well as skilled, he was respected, and if the boycott should fail, his family and professional connections would enable him to find another pastorate somewhere else. ... Although the charges were dropped, King was sent to Reidsville State Prison Farm on the vindication that he violated his probation on a petty traffic offense. ...

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Hughes spent a lonely boyhood after his mother and father split, living his first twelve years with his grandparents and friends of the family in Lawrence, Kansas. ... He delivered flowers, worked on a truck farm and eventually became a sailor. ...

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July 10, 1875 in Maysville, South Carolina, Samuel and Pasty McLeod had a new addition to their family, a baby girl "born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War" (Mary 1). ... Mary was born "on a rice and cotton farm and was the fifteenth of seventeen children, some of whom had been sold into enslavement" (Botsch 1). ... A white family employed Mary's mother. ...

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John's children and his wife had to move to Mexico because their family was in danger, but John stayed to finish writing his assignment. ... In the 1850's and early 1900's, blacks were used as slaves, and would have to work on the farms, and work around the house for the whites. ... It was very hard for blacks to live and support their families, because employment was hard to get. ...

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Even worse, farm incomes declined during the decade. ... During the Victorian Age of the late 1800's and early 1900's, women had been expected to center their lives on home and family. b. ... Family Life Changes a. ...

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Southern Pride: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was there a purpose behind King's honorable humbleness and humility to those who so rudely besmirched his attempts at equality? To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness a...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil...

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The government gave them no work and many Black refugees got rocky and barren land to farm. ... The Eldon district in Saskatchewan was the place that housed the most Black families and many of them arrived in 1909. ... Life on the prairies or farm was somewhat different then life in the big cities because life on the prairies was tough labor and not everyone could do it. ...

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He had been cheated out of his farmland by a white man and couldn't support the family any longer. Rosa her mother and her brother then moved to live with her grandparents on a farm in Pinelevel, which lay between Tuskegee and Montgomery, Alabama. ... Eventually Parks and her family moved to Detroit and in 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers Jr. to manage his office, as he was also a civil rights leader. ...

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Redeemers are also known as Bourbon Democrats as a reference to the Bourbon family of Spain. The Bourbon family was known for forgetting nothing and learning nothing, so the Redeemers were labeled as Bourbons for their attempts to bring Mississippi back to the way it was before the Civil War2. ... Cotton prices had dropped significantly, farms had been destroyed by Union troops during the war, and taxes had never been higher11. ...

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Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. ... In America it states, "By 1890 most southern farms were worked by people who did not own the land" (845). ...

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The Harlem Renaissance brought many great changes. It was time for the African American people to express their culture. Many famous people began their writing and gained recognition during that time. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920's and 1930's. During that time many African Ameri...

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