She did not say "us" in reference to black people she said "the negro" and that form of objectivity helped validate her argument in the eyes of white people who may be less receptive to a stronger black opinion. ... "No chivalrous white man doffed his hat in honor or respect. ... Washington was a master at contorting and twisting his message so that white people would digest his method of progression. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the econ...

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At the time there were other white supremacy organizations such as the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, and the Knights of the White Camelia, but the KKK was the most influential and widely recognized of the groups. ... This was a result of the Klan accomplishing its objective of white supremacy in the south. ... Different people have different views of a perfect race, of which all are not only wrong, but ignorant. There can be no supreme, perfect race, and killing off an entire people is not any type of civilized solution. Without variety of people, cultures, philosophies, religions a...

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The dancer is symbolic of America's distorted value system, the perception of African Americans seen by the white males. ... She, the dancer, is allegorical of how little authority both African Americans and women have in a society lead by white males. ... In all, this symbolizes the struggle for acceptance and equality from the white men, "How society forces African Americans to fight amongst themselves, defeating one another, instead of uniting to protest their racist treatment by the white men" (Liz Brent). ... One of the most effective was is through storytelling, thus hel...

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Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... Also driven by the high profit of cotton trades, white settlers in the South were motivated to grab as much land as they could to produce cotton. ... These people were promised full citizenship and their land ownership by the U.S. government. However, when people from the eastern parts traveled to those new territories and tried to grab their land, many Mexican Americans lost their lawsuits as a legislation passed after the treaty. ... In sum, the e...

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They were underprivileged compared to the white Americans in many areas such as political, economical, and social situations. ... The humiliation of having separate facilities due to the blacks being ˜unworthy' of using white areas was encroaching upon civil rights enough for them though. In the North, law didn't enforce this segregation, however De Facto segregation was still present, as white people still saw themselves as essentially better and superior to black men. ... In the work force, a white person had a much higher chance of successfully getting a job they've ap...

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The Revolutionary War provided black people in America with opportunities. ... Although some slaves were freed, white Americans were reluctant to hire them. ... White women also felt the effect of the new ideals that the American Revolution offered. ... In the1780s, white American women gained more advanced education. ... The Revolution gave white women a voice but complete equality was not present. ...

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Genovese discusses how enslaved people created community within the "plantation setting". This was an incredible accomplishment for people whose lives were ruled by forced labor. ... For example, it was made a crime for a slave to insult any white, regardless of position. ... The African American and white children were especially in a position to form bonds with each other. ... African American children might also become attached to white caretakers, such as the mistress, and white children to their African American nannies. ...

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In one particularly racist scene, an angry "Negro" militia attacks a home full of helpless white Southerners. ... The tyrannical officials in these sessions use their power to belittle the "vulnerable white minority." ... Governor Lynch was viewed as a conniving dictator who was "out to get" the Camerons, our powerless white family. The good "faithful souls" were the loyal slaves who stayed with there white families, saving them from the out of control vicious renegades, and basically turning their backs on their own people. In order to avoid racial pollution Griffith cast white actors to p...

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Media has played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way White Americans perceive African Americans and how African Americans perceive White Americans. ... The movie was so horrid, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) had to take action and protest the movie's release. ... "Race movies " were not just made for Black people enjoyment; it was also an avenue to get subliminal messages to the Black community. ... This stereotype was created to excuse white males of liability in the sexual abuse and rape of African American women. ... Chapelle cla...

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It was a way for white supremacist to continue oppressing the African American population, but eventually began effecting poor white individuals as well. ... In James Agee's novel Cotton Tenants we receive an actual account of the struggles several families faced during these hard times and how it affected the people of the community. Individuals had nowhere else to go after slavery was abolished, and the social latter was comprised of white elected officials. ... By the end of FDR's presidency the new deal ended up as a failure in the eyes of the people. ... FDR's plan als...

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Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... From the earliest white European settlers, the relationship between the native population and the white European population has been acrimonious. ... [T]here they gain a knowledge of how the white man lives and "earns...

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Twain uses colloquial and political diction to give the readers a deeper insight into Southern societal values among the people in this passage, as he reiterates the mindset of racist and arrogant men, while enhancing the environment in the most unequal time period of American history. ... "There was a free nigger there from Ohio-a mulatter, most as white as a white man" (Twain, 35). ... The political diction used by Twain, mocked the government from Pap's point of view to portray the extreme inequality among the people. First, Twain uses a white man like Pap to explain the rac...

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These four basic elements are key factors in deciding exactly what type of "time," people were living in. ... A society is a group of people living in an environment. ... Carpetbaggers were white northerners that moved to the South to help with Reconstruction, and the scalawags were white southerners who also supported the Republican Party (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.6). These groups were mainly low class farmers that were against the rich White southerners that had made a monopoly on farming. ... Politics for instance, is the ideology of people or a group of people or in other...

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With the eventual success of the civil rights movement, it is important to trace back to its origins and the people and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. ... This secret society and brotherhood was seen as a space where people could talk about new ideas in a safe place. ... Prince Hall and his white counterparts were fighting for equality and while in battle the white masons made him a brother, i.e.: a freemason. ... His lodge was not recognized as a real Masonic lodge by the white Freemasons, but he did not let this de...

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In American Government In Black And White Mcclain and Tauber said, "The designation of a person's race in the United States has historically been decided by American society's desire to exclude groups of people from participation in the social and political life of the nation.... The idea of race gives the United States the ability to categorize different groups of people based on their appearance. ... These codes were a result of the anger of white southerners who opposed the abolishment of slavery. ... For example, African Americans were forced to sign labor contracts with whi...

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People in the South didn't view African Americans as equal to themselves and thus they did not treat them fairly and in some cases they were treated inhumanely. Groups like the Klu Klux Klan and later the Red Shirts were set up and joined by people who believed that white people were inherently better than African Americans, and they went to some very evil ends to show this. People in these groups would not only kill African Americans, they would kill white supporters of African American rights. ... But even people who din't go to these extremes were quick to show their thoughts....

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In 1669, Slavery was made into property by law, so beginning the centuries of oppression by white Americans on people who were not "pure" enough. ... African Americans demanded equality from whites when they embraced their heritage with truth and began the fight for white to accept that they played a key role to make American what it is today. ... The Chinese class were often isolated from the "white" Americans, and found restrictions to their limits of opportunities such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. ... Coming back to the Giddy Multitude, they represented all of the peoples who were not...

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In the North, black men were considered political people who even had the rights to vote and hold office (193). ... As the increasing number of black southern immigrants populated the North, black southerners began to transform both black and white America. ... African Americans were beginning to rise in social class and prove themselves equally capable of achieving all what white Americans had achieved for centuries; the blacks built churches, mutual aid societies, social clubs, established new businesses and services, launched diverse labor, civil rights, and political organizations (33). ...

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This statement is correct for a number of reasons, first and foremost was the fact that the southerners (both black and white) were expecting some sort of federal aid, and the fact that it was close to the Christmas season only elevated the futile feelings of optimism. ... These growing hopes amongst the southerners caused by the Christmas holiday was not only indicative of how people felt during reconstruction, but was also compounded by the holiday season. Throughout the period of reconstruction there was a growing anxiety amongst the white southerners that the blacks might lash out agai...

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However, in a society dominated by rich white males equal rights were only for the privileged, women, slaves, and the poor were excluded. ... The rights granted were very limited at the time and only belonged to the select few, rich white males and men who owned property. ... Political The revolution generated radical changes in the principles, opinions, and sentiments of the American people. ... Many had hoped for independence, equal rights, and a political system governed by the people. ... With civil rights primarily guaranteed only for white males, and excluded women, slaves, and the poor....

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It also was intended to prohibit laws that applied to one race only, such as the black codes, or that made certain acts felonies when committed by black but not white people, or that decreed different penalties for the same crime when committed by white and black lawbreakers. ... Likewise, the people of the Southern states did not agree with Northern people's views on slave ownership. ...

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Although the term "racial profiling" does not have a universal definition, it is referred to as the practice of stopping and inspecting people who are passing through public places because of bias opinions due to ones race or ethnicity. ... Such guidelines specified to watch out for people who wear a lot of jewelry and don't fit the car they are driving. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 21...

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Many people will argue that the social and political changes in the period between 1860 and 1877 culminated in a revolution. ... In the south the newly freed slaves wandered the countryside and the white population was devastated due to their loss in the recent war. ... How can Republican institutions, free school, free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs, of owners of twenty-thousand-acre manors, with the lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited low white trash? ... The Government did not yet understand the importance of economi...

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Flannery O"Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge" tells the story of a middle-aged white lady, the descendant of an aristocratic slave-holding family in the deep south, that is on a journey to the YWCA to attend a "reducing class" that was recommended to lower her blood pressure. ... The theme of the story is that of the plague of social bigotry of the people of the South in the time of desegregation. O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humank...

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Seen by many (and rightfully so) as a terrorist organization, the KKK resisted the Reconstruction Period by "assaulting, murdering, and intimidating freedmen and white Republicans."" ... The Ku Klux Klan set out the primary targets of their terrorism as being "any blacks [that] challenged white supremacy by daring to vote, teach, or acquire land, and carpetbaggers, white Northerners who came to the South after the war to seek their fortunes or to assume office in the Reconstruction state governments. ... According to the article, in August of eighteen seventy-one, a "band of white men broke i...

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