" At its very core, the notion of the "Good Life" is the idea of a world in balance, the idea of a world where unification and peace exist among its citizens. ... The white moderates, who are "more devoted to 'order' than to justice," refuse to fight for racial equality and instead advocate a "negative peace absent of tension" over a "positive peace in which justice is present" (King). ... This reality, where people imagine the "Good Life" as a world so separated from its true meaning, is the culmination of the refusal to figh...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ferguson (1896), where the Court found that "separate but equal" public accommodations for African Americans, such as trains and restaurants, did not violate their rights. ... "In all things that are purely social," he said, blacks and whites "can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." ... Before Washington's peace-making stance gained a foothold, "the assertion of the manhood rights of the Negro by himself was the main reliance". ...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate