The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... Prince Hall, an ex-slave, became a mason while fighting in the American Revolution alongside white soldiers who were freemasons. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. Upon returning from the revolution and opening the first black lodge in Boston, MA, Hall was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. ... In Hall's speech " A Charge Delivered to The Brethren," he addresses his masons as grand master and e...

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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. ... When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-cla...

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To be completely legitimized with all due respect of this cause, they should follow up on the premise of good motivations to bolster fairness among people groups; such reasons could incorporate their feeling of bad form for the evil treatment of black Americans or their admiration for the nobility of persons or their gratefulness that genuine equality of rights best serves the hobbies of all American individuals. ...

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., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. ... Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. ... And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. ... They had stood together as American blacks had never before stood together. ... SCLC's motto was "t...

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One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ... americans became aware of the dangers they encountered everyday and would perhaps hand down to their children. ... she envisioned beautification all over america. ...

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