It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country," (Davis, The Irrepressible Conflict, 447). ... After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. ... As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. ... In 1898, Louisiana introduced "grandfather clauses", exempting "sons and grands...

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Soon after the parents of his white friend told him that they could not be friends any longer. ... After that, he was no longer close to any white people and racism and inequality became prevalent forces in Garvey's life." ... Washington before traveling to America in hopes to receive his support. ... Never before has any black person took on such a rebellious task and has done so with such a huge following. ... It didn't take too long before the government became aware of Marcus Garvey's influence over black peop...

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Before the Harlem Renaissance, African-Americans were often treated as second class citizens. ... The nineteen twenties provided an opportunity for black performers to show off their talents before mostly all-white audiences. ... Jean Toomer's father left his wife and son shortly after his birth. ... After he graduated high school, Jean Toomer began traveling. ... After ge...

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After he earned his Ph.D. ... After King accepted the job he started to use a peaceful methods of protesting. ... Soon after he took the job at the MIA, King was known nation wide. ... Before he was assented King was helping black sanitation workers who were on strike (Levy 135). On April 3rd the night before he was assassinated he gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. ...

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After he earned his Ph.D. ... After King accepted the job he started to use a peaceful methods of protesting. ... Soon after he took the job at the MIA, King was known nation wide. ... Before he was assented King was helping black sanitation workers who were on strike (Levy 135). On April 3rd the night before he was assassinated he gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. ...

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She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. ... His father, who had studied to become a lawyer, left for Mexico shortly after the baby was born. ... After graduation, he went to Mexico to visit his father, who agreed to pay for his college education. ... Also making it tough on Lawrence was the fact that after the age of seven he was without a father figure. ... During the Harlem Renaissance, intellectual dialogue, literary and artistic creation, blues and ...

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Depicting life before and after the civil war, all four archetypes are present in this film. ... He, and other Black directors of the time, took the Black Buck, Coon, and Mammy stereotypes of the era before and modernized them. ... "The Farm story- marked a point in time- before it there was no Canadian identity in theatre, after it there was. ...

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Born right before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation B. ... She was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16th 1862, which was about six months before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all of the slaves. ... She also wrote an autobiography of her life starting when she was just a little child until the weeks before she died. ... After her friend was lynched she uncovered those responsible and her print house was wrecked and she was run out of Memphis. Even after that happened she did not abandon her cause, she still did all of her re...

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To this he responds, "Simply because we were licked a hundred years ago before we started is no reason for us not to try and win"(87). ... After Scout realizes that most of the town doesn't approve of what Atticus is doing, she asks him why he's doing it. He explains: " 'before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience' "(120) Atticus is saying that one has to judge oneself before anyone else. ... After the attack, Scout's ham costume is discov...

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After the war Sutpen finds himself fallen from his thrown and reduced to owning a small shanty store and Wash elevated as his employee. ... Before the war Sutpen was forced to sit on the ground and drink while his Sutpen leisured in a hammock (Wash 539). ... In fact the feelings after the question show that Vatch may have not really believed Weddel when he said "No... ... Wash would help Faulkner display the rise of the poor white in society after the war. ... The quite new country would erupt like a volcano after the Civil war. ...

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Thoreau clearly stated the majority in power are not always serving a just and fair government when he wrote, "After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically strongest.... King says, "We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as means of laying our case before the conscience of the lo...

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Frustrated by limited opportunities in the United States, he left Missouri for Mexico before his son was two years old. ... Academically and socially, Langston did well in Lincoln, The summer before he started high school, Langston and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... After leaving Columbia, Hughes worked on ships heading for foreign ports, since he had a yearning to travel. ... After leaving Africa, Hughes headed for Paris. ... However, three days after surgery, Hughes's temperature began to climb, his heart rate escalated, and he developed pneumonia. ...

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Even after African-Americans gained their freedom from slavery after the end of the Civil War, they still faced a strong racial prejudice from the majority of white people throughout the nation, since the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution only outlawed slavery, but did not provide equal rights and citizenship's to African-Americans. ... The time setting of the play is just before the big thrust of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1950's. ... It is perhaps the first time after a long time that there are bursts of happiness and not despair in her ...

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Soon after teaching school in Georgia, she taught school in South Carolina, Florida, and later in Illinois. ... "Mary was sent next to Sumter, South Carolina where she taught for two years at Kendall Institution before marrying Albertus Bethune in 1898" (Botsch 1). Soon after they were married, the couple decided they would move to Savannah, Georgia because of a job that Albertus had. ... Soon after the separation, Mary decided to move to Daytona, Florida. ... It was not long before, the school was relocated to a larger area. ...

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Leading up to World War II, minority Americans have had a long history facing racial discrimination in the United States, such as slavery and the Jim Crow laws against African Americans after the Civil War. ... After the study by the military board, President Roosevelt approved in February 1943 the formation of Japanese Americans into fighting units. ... The 442nd Regiment successfully rescued these American battalions after losing more than 400 out of 1,000 soldiers from their own unit (The 442nd Regiment and the "Lost Battalion "). ... Before the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American had been...

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Meanwhile Sethe's master decides to walk away after witnessing this horrific event. ... These people before hand, especially Sethe, dealt with prejudice, but that was just a little aspect of it. ... After a visit from her deceased grandmother, Denver comes to grip with what she must do to help her family. ... I knew this before, but I honestly didn't put it together until I began writing this paragraph. ... After saying all that I would not recommend this film. ...

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The long civil rights movement behind the act really took off after the Second World War and peaked during the late 50's and early 60's. ... Not long after such sediment, African American Union leader A. ... Six days before the scheduled march, on June 25, 1941, the President signed Executive Order 8802 that banned work discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin for defense contractors and appointed the Committee on Fair Employment Practice to monitor compliance with the order. ... After the march, King and other civil rights leaders met with President Kenn...

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He began writing after he gradated from high school because he could not afford to go to college. ... Within these two poems he is able to bring people closer to the heart of primitive human nature in his race than anyone ever before (Laryea 109). ... He felt his talents were being imprisoned after writing "Sympathy" because many people demanded him as a symbol of a true slave to them and not a spokesperson of the Negro people (Turner 131). ... He was the first black American poet to gain this national praise, although white and black writers before him have used it also (Laryea 108). ... A...

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The Bourbon family was known for forgetting nothing and learning nothing, so the Redeemers were labeled as Bourbons for their attempts to bring Mississippi back to the way it was before the Civil War2. ... After the war, carpetbaggers flooded in from the north and assumed authoritative positions in Mississippi's government that were left open by the removal of Confederates from office. Carpetbaggers were northerners who came to the South after the war claiming to want to bring order to the states. ... Alcorn had been the leading voice against secession in Mississippi before the war and wa...

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His mother, however, went before the board and battled to get him accepted. ... As a result, after school classmates would grab stones and tin cans from the ally and chase him home. ... In March 1953 Hughes was forced to appear before "The House of Un-American Activities" where he refused to name other radicals and denied he had ever been a member of the "American Communist Party" Langston enjoyed a successful career until his death on May 22, 1967. ... "My writing has been largely with the depicting of Negro life in America," Hughes said before the day he died. ... After he washed his f...

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Some say that the Montgomery Bus Boycott started on December 1, 1955, but many of those who were present say it began long before that. ... On May 11, 1956, the case was heard before a three-panel federal court and the federal court decided 2-1 in favor of the blacks but the city appealed the ruling. ... After the boycott came to a close, snipers shot into buses in black communities. ... The worst single night of violence occurred on January 10, 1957, a few weeks after the end of the boycott and segregated seating on buses. ... As a criminal statute, it would have to progress through the stat...

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It wasn't always called baseball, the original name was "Townball" the word baseball originated in England five years before the game was invented. ... When (former New York World-Telegram sportswriter Heywood Broun, in a 1933 speech before the NY Baseball Writers Association dinner) confronted the color line, he violated the conspiracy of silence" (Lamb 14). ... After watching them play he felt that those players could help expand the earning of his own team and could lead them to win more games. ... He saw them for their talents and not their race, knowing how hard it wo...

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In doing so, he swore to do that which is right before that which is popular. ... His mother was an intelligent woman who taught school after completing studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. ... Martin called her to ask for a date and, after some resistance, she agreed. ... Soon after their first date, King mentioned that she was the kind of person he wanted to marry. ... He asked if they could hold the meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and, after some resistance, King agreed. ...

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After the outlawing of slavery, a new form of slavery developed in the South called sharecropping. ... Also literacy tests were required in many areas before one could vote. ... Challenging that it violated the 14th amendment Marshall eventually argued the case before the Supreme Court. ... When Parks refused to move, she was arrested shortly there after. ... After the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965 , the Civil Rights Movements began to move away from it non-violent roots. ...

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He lived in Paris for a time and after his return to the United States, he worked as a busboy in Washington, D.C. there in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay who recognized Hughes abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughes work. ... This announcement became his life's mission and was foretold in different pieces written long before his name became a beloved household name. http://myhero.com/hero.asp?... Berry, faith, Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem, Citadel, 1992 Langston Hughes sp...

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