She is best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award. ... (1983), Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975), and Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer prize. The first black woman director in Hollywood, Angelou has written, produced, directed, and star...

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Both are synonymous with black and equal rights and the civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 60's. ... Martin, like his father and Christian teachings, preached tolerance and denounced violence as a means to achieve something. ... King urged blacks to forgive whites and to not lose sight that the real enemy is oppression. His arguments proved successful as he was acclaimed and received many accolades like a Nobel peace prize and 1963 TIME magazine's Man of the Year. ... Malcolm argued that Martin Luther King, wanted black people to be defenseless as Malcolm clearly and...

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Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. ... Like overt racism, it can occur individually, institutionally, and culturally. ... Thus they never did really see me". ... Many Whites view Blacks as being different from themselves. ... It almost impossible for two southern white men to murder an African American teenager like Emmett Till was in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. ...

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The moral compass of natural law would bring an end to segregation and discrimination that had been forced on the black members of society through hundreds of years of positivist law that unfairly disbursed the burdens of the society in the pursuit of the common good. ... This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"" (SullenToys, 2011). ... King expressed to his followers that although harm had been done to the black community through oppression the rise to equality should ...

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