As the promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty , and the pursuit of happiness were issued in living in America; the colored people of American seemed to not have been included in this promise. ... The history of America begins with the citizens of the colonies seeking equal representation and rights as the citizens in England during their time period. ... This statement and song referral is pointing out that freedom will ring where every one of the lines hold true to every citizen and person in the nation. King states that the day Negroes look forwar...

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• Grade Level: High School

Black clergymen were described with whites as "ignorant but cunning men who taught the most outrageous antinomian principles, subversive of all morals and ruinous to all correct notions of God and duty".7 Though the content of these black preachers" sermons is largely undocumented due to the reticence of the slaves in front of whites, the spirituals and slave accounts of lively and joyous worship and celebration have been documented in personal slave accounts. ... Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by ...

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The New England mills moved south in search of cheap labor, leaving behind thousands of unemployed workers and virtual ghost towns in the nation's oldest industrial center. ... The boom of the 1920s would end in a great crash; yet the achievements of the decade would survive even that dire experience to shape the future of American life.*** The New Urban Culture The 1920 census revealed that for the first time, slightly more than half of the population lived in cities Women and the Family "flappers" set out to compete on equal terms with men on the golf course and in the speak...

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