They also began to form strong opinions against the Southern White Democrat, and from 1894 to 1896 began a political organization known as the Populist Party. In North Carolina Republican Party members, who were seemingly pushed out of power at the collapse of the Reconstruction Era, believed they could form an alliance with the Populist Party to successfully challenge the Democratic Party (white supremacy) and take them over with their "Fusion Politics." This successfully ejected the Democratic Party from power for nearly five years; and led to the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. ... Wh...

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Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. ... There are three features of South African society that are presented in Too Late the Phalarope: first, Afrikaner nationalism as seen in Jakob van Vlaanderen; second, moderates like Sophie who outwardly appear to offer an alternative to the ideology of apartheid but inwardly live with it; and third, there is a sense of hope or potentially resistant forces at work within South African society. ... Sophie gives a description of a small incident that occurs...

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The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... The white minority, fearing African majority rule, voted the National Party into office in 1948's whites-only general election. ... Third, it reorganized the use of public places, methods of transportation, and schools, so that each would be completely segregated. ... In 1950, the National Party introduced the Group Areas Act, which allocated separate living areas for Coloureds , East Indians, and black Africans. ... Ea...

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The Farmers' Alliances agitated for railroad regulation, tax reform, and unlimited coinage of silver and attempted to influence the established political parties. Growth was so rapid, however, that interest in a third party began to increase; in 1891 delegates from farm and labor organizations met in Cincinnati. No decision was made to form a political party, but when the Republican and Democratic parties both straddled the currency question at the 1892 presidential conventions, a convention was held at Omaha, and the Populist party was formed. At this time a third party called the People...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. To give a cliche analogy, the apartheid government was continually trying to put a band aid on a third degree burn. ... The National Party could n...

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The third step includes the comparison of the pieces and the method of depiction will also be touched upon. ... The third component is ethnic attitudes which are feelings about the group you belong to and other groups. ...

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What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...

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