Tyler's book, "African-American Life in Louisville. ... African Americans also found their niche in the local communal activities. ... The African American men and women however gathered in the Brock Building to enjoy the dance and music of the time with live performances from jazz groups and big bands, and, "turned racial segregation into positive ethnic congregation in a celebration of life and culture" (123). ... African Americans found success in a variety of offices, like Dr. ... Even large modern day companies employed African Americans throughout the 1900's, lik...

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A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. 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. ... African American Hi...

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African Americans used music as a form of empowerment and a source of identifying blackness, unity and strength. ... Janelle Monae in her song Q.U.E.E.N was offended when the media claimed that she was a lesbian because of her track, which she used as a revolutionary tool to reshape the minds of both men and women who viewed her actions as male because she wore pants or danced in public. ... Firstly, African Americans have used music as a marker of identifying their blackness and discourse from their homeland of Africa. ... Music in the African American culture has weighed heavily on the Afric...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. The transcendentalists A. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, ...

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The initial goal of reconstruction was to redistribute the South's social structure and wealth to that disenfranchised the former African American slaves. ... The author explains how the crowd would scramble to get pieces of the man that had been cut off as he was tied to the post with the flames dancing around him. ...

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