1.0 Introduction Malcolm X was a passionate and gifted black orator that was born in 1925. Malcolm, who was born in Nebraska, was an influential African-American nationalist leader. He was also a Muslim minister, and acted as the Islam's spokesperson. As a result of his influence, the number of Muslims grew from four hundred in the beginning of the 1950s to more than forty thousand in 1960. History claims that Malcolm was born in a family of eight children. ...

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There were separate restrooms, drinking fountains, stores and, of course, schools. ... By the end of the movie, there is a peace march on the campus and the nazis don't like it. The group persuades one of the members to go to the top of a large building with a gun and open fire on the peace marchers. ...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

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Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. ...

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Separate from any established churches, The Clearing provided a place where the community could gather and reclaim themselves- a place where they could reclaim God, outside of any white institutions. ... The Clearing allowed " freed blacks to set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church .Significantly, the leader of this group is Baby Suggs, who stands in contrast to the powerful men who head the larger white church. ...

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Separate from any established churches, The Clearing provided a place where the community could gather and reclaim themselves- a place where they could reclaim God, outside of any white institutions. ... The Clearing allowed " freed blacks to set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church .Significantly, the leader of this group is Baby Suggs, who stands in contrast to the powerful men who head the larger white church. ...

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The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. ... The men went to separate prisons to do their time and the women received a sentence of five years in a women's reformatory. ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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Throughout the history of the country, America has been considered a fairly racist union. Undoubtedly the greatest injustice in the United States to this day is the white's treatment of African-Americans, specifically slavery. The vast majority of non-black people of that time believed that blacks w...

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Then that home was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible - (5) Only seemingly harmless and peaceful though, because Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town inhabited by townsmen of Virginian ancestry, and by slaves. ...

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"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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According to Ingrid Byerly, a former professor of ethnomusicology at Duke University, music, "served the purpose of mobilizing social change, whether with the more concrete intentions of invoking peace or threatening war, or with the more abstract intentions of recovering or reflecting a past, suggesting or establishing a present, and projecting or prophesying a future."" ...

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