In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. ... In the late 18th century during the American Revolution the issue for women rights became prominent. ... The 1960's was the beginning of the sexual revolution which was a liberating social movement that challenged what individuals had previously seen as sexual norms. Contraception and the pill, public nudity, the normalization of premarital sex, homosexuality and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed as a part of the revolution. Both feminism and the sexual revolut...

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To begin, freemasonry is believed by masons to have been around since the time of Solomon, but the first official Masonic lodge was built in England in 17172. ... 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...

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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. ... In the begin of the twentieth century only few Blacks had managed to enter the middle-class. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-class took an active part in the struggle for integration in the American society. With the help of the Christian church they managed to ...

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In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. ... He also wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence about the child criminal Willie Bosket. ... So the book starts off in South Carolina in the Edgefield County where the American Revolution just ended. ... Here the share cropper system reduced the African Americans to peons but then in 1867 the Southern states were forced to give African Americans to vote (Butterfield, F.,...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. ... Capitalism was though to be a perfect fit for American ideas because it was a system that was designed to work on a basis of supply and demand. ... The central idea with Capitalism that came out of the second Industrial Revolution was that all people of society would act in a way that would benefit everyone and that under no circumstances act for only their own best interests. ... Only the factory owners saw this sys...

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The novel can be looked upon as a strong censure of the bigotry and sexism that defrauded African- American women in the American South. ... Introduction "A male dominated society of the early twentieth century in America defined gender roles which each individual would subscribe to. ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. ... Womanism is the counter-revolution, the realisation, that 'feminism' does not recognise the perspectives of the Black women. ... Set in the backdr...

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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. ... 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. ... To begin with, King was a preacher who spoke in biblical cadences ideally suited to leading a stride toward freedom that found its inspiration in the Old Testament story of the Israelites and the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ. ... They had stood together ...

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American music is extremely varied and diverse. ... 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. ... England, particularly, had a profound impact on American culture and society. ... American-born composers generally went to Europe to perfect their craft. Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ...

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Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... Some could argue that America shows some similarities to a racial caste system. ... According to The New Jim Crow, the racial caste system began before America was even a nation. ... When the American Revolution ended, the Constitution was drafted. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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