After the 8th grade, Malcolm moved to Boston where he worked various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity.4 In his autobiography Malcolm X referred to this part of his past as "Detroit Red". Detroit Red was a drug dealing criminal who was a danger to himself and to the Black community. ... Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the "blue-eyed devil white man" had brainwashed the "so-called Negro." ...

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He put the binoculars down and put his right eye on the scope, he closed his left eye. ... I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. ...

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In 1914 Marcus Mosiah Garvey started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica. UNIA was started to help promote blacks in everyone's eyes so that they wouldn't have to be "at the mercy of white people."" (Kanet.org 7) Garvey wanted blacks to set up their own nation. In 1916, he ...

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Despite the election of the country's first African American president, racial divisions still exist today. (Dunn). Recent reports, social media, and breaking news have been showing racism continues to thrive in America. Fed up with the law, Afro-Americans are protesting for their rights. Media's s...

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