Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. ... Perhaps mo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another early arrival who came to Canada was a young Black boy who had been captured from his homeland in Madagascar. ... To weaken the rebel forces the British commander in chief offered freedom to all Blacks who could escape from the rebels and without the Blacks, the rebels would not be able to keep their plantations running. ... "In 1815, the Nova Scotia Assembly tried to stop Blacks from coming into the Maritimes." ... Some of the papers were even circulated in the USA because Blacks down there were interested in Blacks from Canada. ... There were Blacks all over Canada. ...

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He becomes quite concerned and phones the agent. ... I can't even imagine what it would be like to be around people just like me all of the time. ... This may sound like an extreme case because the early Kinloch residents kind of blocked themselves out from the white world, but this same type of segregation is still occurring due to blacks isolating themselves from other races. ... Thirty percent of black Americans live in all-black neighborhoods (Gillmor). ... Probably not because they were all too busy using the "colored" bathrooms. ...

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Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. (Cooper, 569-573) America in her early years was dominated by the ideas, traditions, and skills of Western Europe. ... Fard said that he had come from the holy city of Mecca in order to save the American Negro. ... Malcolm X took over from there. ... Jazz embraced the nuances and jagged edges of the collective black experience but it could not self-consciously energize the nationalist philosophy in q...

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But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. ... The constitution which promised that all men are created equal" was made only for Whites. ... He also used it as a national platform from which he spoke. ... Soon this form of action spread all over the South. ... While in prison King wrote his famous "Letter from Birm...

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