Both the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence addressed the topic of slavery. The Constitution even rewarded slave states by giving them more representation. ... Finally, the video New York: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns, takes a more objective look at history. ... The Declaration of Independence and the US constitution further impacted the debate over slavery. ... Moreover, the Constitution implied slavery would continue for a long time to come. ...

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There where problems in the society; women, African-Americans, and families faced through a lot of difficulties getting where there striving to be at, which became apart of history. A woman plays an important role, still, the constitution prevented them to do or be great things in life. ... The right to vote made a huge impact in women history. ... Children African-Americans played an important part in American history. ...

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Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. ... There is nothing in the history of his race, nothing in his individual character, nothing in his achievements past nor his promise for the future, which entitles him to stand side by side with the white man at the ballot box We must repeal and modify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. ... He was too big to corporally punish, so the principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. ... Thurgood Marshall is one of the most well known figures in the histo...

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• That the Constitution, as originally written and intended, is the finest system of government ever conceived by man. ... History of the Ku Klux Klan "All That We've Learned From History... Is That We Don't Learn From History- People can learn from history, but many don't, can't, or would rather just forget about it and move on with their own ways. ...

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The history of voting rights law in this country demonstrates that the political protections offered by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution allow some deference to Blacks to help them elect their candidates of choice in various arenas. ...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. ... The constitution of the United States contains a Bill of Rights that describes simple liberties and rights insured to every person in the United States. Although the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, civil rights were not always respected to all human beings, especially women and blacks. When the constitution was first writ...

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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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Our history is a contradiction; a nation based on freedom once did not give all people the right to live freely. ... A People and a Nation, A History of the United States, vol 2. ... The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which were intended to protect black voting rights. ... In the history of black suffrage many famous Civil Rights events and protest tactics were battled. ... The struggles of African Americans were both treacherous and overbearing at times, and even though they still have problems today blacks have made tremendous progress and have left an inde...

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Introduction  In the 1950's and 1960's the Civil Rights Movement was a popular movement to end segregation amongst blacks and whites and for the black population to earn equal rights. During that era black lives really did not matter and they felt as if they did not belong. Blacks were tired of bei...

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In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. ... "In general, white soldiers and officers believed that black men lacked the courage to fight and fight well" (History of African-Americans in the Civil War). ... Along the way, convoluted legal questions involving the Constitution and slaves as property had to be got around (Fincher). ... In a battle at Port Hudson, Louisiana on May 27, 1863, African American soldiers advanced on open ground (History of African-Americans in the Civil War). ... The massacre at Fort Pillow, Tennessee on April...

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April 12, 1861 is one of the most crucial and important dates in American history. ... This war is a major turning point in American history and society, and has helped shape America into the country it is today. ... One of the most significant events in African American history is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited the states Smalls 5 from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting (Memory). ...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of America in the 1960's by banning discrimination of people based on race, sex, national origin and religion. Because of this important social movement, African Americans and other minorities were more involved in everyday life by being allowed to work ...

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In the United States Slavery was of some of the most brutal and suppressive recorded in history. ... Slaves were thought of as sub human and were expressedly written into the constitution as such but only done so to appease the rural souths representation of population in congress. In the history of the U.S. there was little record of slave revolt or any type of organized slave body. ... These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The United States has had a long history of racial discrimination dating back to it'...

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In the 1920's African Americans were free under the constitution but they were not free from racism and their past was not far gone. ... They were given the thought since slavery, to be the ones with no history or race as a result writing let the writer and reader discover that they have a heritage. During the Harlem Renaissance past writing or writing done about a persons history became popular because it was real. ... First, African American literature is "based on its culture, its history, and the artistic strategies (Morrison, 251)." ...

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I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... It was the biggest civil right demonstration in history, and for the first time, white and black Americans stood together as one nation. ...

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" Looking back in history, during the same period as the West makes legal structure to control and regulate blacks in the New World, there was a shift in types of punishment and social control in Europe and the United States in years preceding the Civil War. ... The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the constitution were intended to end slavery. ...

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The Jim Crow Laws were the most immoral laws supported by the US legislation in history. ... The State of Louisiana, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. ...

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Two, this was the first time in American History that blacks adopted nonviolent tactics as a way of bring social change. ... August 28, 1963 Martin Luther led the biggest protest to date in United States History with more than 200,000 people in attendance. ...

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During the course of world history acts of racism and discrimination were inflicted on people of different races for various reasons. ... "Under the Constitution the Negro is a citizen and of course we know and accept that but he can never expect to receive the same educational and social privileges with the white man he doesn't expect them. ... Negroes have been some of the greatest fighters in history. ...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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Throughout the history of the country, America has been considered a fairly racist union. ... On MTV, there has been only two white rap singers in the history of the channel, and one of them, Vanilla Ice, is the subject of constant ridicule by black rap fans and performers. ...

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Never before and again in the history of the Harlem Renaissance, so many leading figures of this period came together to write for the rights of the black population in America. ... Another step backwards in the history of human rights for blacks was reached, when the erosion of the rights they had achieved under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Reconstruction Acts were denied by the southern government. Amendments to the Constitution Article XIV ( adopted in 1868) Section 1. ...

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While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ... The constitution which promised that all men are created equal" was made only for Whites. ...

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