America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... Furthermore, in this paper I will also examine three of the many prime examples (roles) for which African Americans portrayed during that era which are: - African American soldiers - Education for African Americans - Blacks in America during World War II Let's first examine the role of African Americans in the military during World War II. ... All this would probably be denied if made public, but these things are truths I know."4 To say that Democracy for African Americans ...

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America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... Furthermore, in this paper I will also examine three of the many prime examples (roles) for which African Americans portrayed during that era which are: - African American soldiers - Education for African Americans - Blacks in America during World War II Let's first examine the role of African Americans in the military during World War II. ... All this would probably be denied if made public, but these things are truths I know."4 To say that Democracy for African Americans ...

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Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... The acceptance of the rights of the entire human race supports his ideas of having a true democracy. ... Identity allows individuals to become self conscious and through this they can find different ways to contribute to a democracy. ... He believes that democracy requires citizens that can criticize their leaders and their governments. ... "An American Negro would not...

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"Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave," (1847) is a fascinating and emotional account of the horrors of American slavery. ... Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life on the plantations, at slave auctions and during the dark hours of individual pain but what makes his narratives so unique is his constant reference to all these situations in the paradoxical realm of democracy and religion. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead." To think of the Un...

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Mandela's American counterpart was Martin Luther King, Jr. ... His speaking prowess inspired African American citizens to rise up and help achieve King's "dream" for America. ... The blacks" efforts ultimately led to the creation of a multiracial democracy in South Africa. ... Apartheid greatly undermined the spirit of democracy. Basic principles of democracy include free elections, citizen participation, majority representation, freedom and equality, all of which were violated during the reign of apartheid systems in South Africa and America. ...

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When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Aside from being educated, students need to also be engineered to function in a democracy by learning the democratic values that will ...

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In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. ... This Afrikaner myth is exemplified in Hard Right written by van Rooyen when he says, "Africa's poor record on democracy, human and minority rights was always a source of great anxiety to South African whites. ... America essentially put on a facade of backing South Africa and after internal pressure from black American and liber...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Being a mason meant believing in equality and democracy. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. ... Many years after Hall's death, the Prince Hall Masons continued to meet and promote lives of virtue, equality and democracy. ...

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America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... It also became associated with "republicanism, Protestantism, democracy, laissez-faire, economic theory, progress, and empire building" (Smedley 188). During the early 19th century, America had become a financial powerhouse, dominated by whites. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ...

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Dubois, and even Frantz Fanon spoke and wrote eloquently and passionately against racial oppression, calling America and Europe to accountability for their democratic and humanitarian ideals by appealing to, in Abraham Lincoln's paraphrased words, "the better angels of men's natures."" ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. The fact remains that democracy in America can coexist, and indeed has coexisted with the oppression ...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. ... This newspaper finally gave the black people of America a voice. ... Not only did these achievements pave the way for other African Americans to follow, but they also weakened the stereotype that African American people are an inferior and sub-human type of being. ... Frederick Douglass fought for the equality among all humanity and wrote, "The...

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While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... Although the average American had little power or say regarding the issue, many were brainwashed into believing African-Americans were inferior or unequal. ... Thus, the greatest threat to democracy was seen as coming from class warfare that destabilized a nation's economy, society and government, and threatened the peaceful and harmonious implementation of laws.... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as fr...

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This statement summarizes a significant issue that most African Americans recognized and sought to change during this era. ... However, both men left behind a legacy that contributed in paving the way for equal opportunity for African Americans today. ... He was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a place where social and economic activities were reinforced by "primary democracy"- all of its citizens had a right to be heard. ... In this article, he described the dreadful effects of segregation and the toll it took on the African American Race. ... Therefore this is what he...

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Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. ... There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. ... King addre...

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