This struggle occurred before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, and it has impacted history through its events, its ideas, and its people. Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. ... Of course, no blacks had voted before 1867, so they were required to take the literacy test (64) . . ." ... One of the key ideas before the Civil Rights Movement was that of the innocence and even necessity of segregation, embodied in Plessy vs. ... The people from before the Civil Rights Movement were widely variegated in their belie...

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After years of this informal name, the authorities decided to name the street Mains avenue. ... The girls dropped their basket and started running after the red roses to keep them from getting soiled in the snow. ... He has stopped hating Ruth as much as he had before even though he notices that she still spends occasional nights away from home. ... He knows Hagar is after him and he can't stop imagining when the ice pick will enter his neck. ... Before Guitar leaves, Milkman asks him what has been going on with him lately. ...

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After Interviewing Damion Anderson I now have a different perception of live it self. ... People today are using energy like never before. ... As a result, they gained more knowledge then they had before of economic and social politics. ... After Garvey published his "back to Africa" speech slaves started leaving the homes of their masters. ... King before hand told blacks that it was a nonviolent march. ...

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William dropped out of school after elementary school, but could read and write very well. ... There were multiple of riots going on about the lynching of two black men after the false accusations of a white women's rape. ... Houston was also the fist Black lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court. ... After passing the Maryland Bar, Thurgood, turned down a job offer from Harvard to start his own practice. ... Before serving on the Supreme Court, Marshall served as a legal director of the NAACP. ...

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Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. ... After the 14th Amendment was passed; however, the radical faction of congress was disappointed that it did not grant blacks the right to vote. ... After the Reconstruction congress passed unprecedented legislation involving black civil rights, the supreme court failed to enforce the legislation in the Plessy v. ... During Reconstruction,...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. ... 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. Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alaba...

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Just days after the bombing 4 men were under investigation, including a demolitions expert. Two years after the bombing the FBI Director J. ... Another suspect by the name of Herman Cash died in 1994 before he could be brought to trial. ... Despite justice being served well after the initial bombing it is good that justice prevailed and these men were brought to justice. ...

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After the fire, the editorial staff decided not to work on an other edition and all of the famous writer and painter went their own way. Never before and again in the history of the Harlem Renaissance, so many leading figures of this period came together to write for the rights of the black population in America. ... The climax of this kind of procedure was reached long after the Harlem movement was over. ... It was published in fall of 1926 by a group of Harlem writers, but before even a few copies were sold, the rest was destroyed by a real fire in the basement, were it was stored. ...

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After visiting Emerson he finds out about the true content of the letters, given to him by Bledsoe in order to help him getting a job, as they basically contain the following message: "Keep this nigger boy running" (208). ... ("When I discover who I am, I'll be free", 198) After the stay at the hospital the invisible man starts living at Mary's, who he conceives "like something out of [his] past" (210) and even her cooking reminds him of his childhood. ... As Brother Jack recruits him as a Brotherhood spokesman after this speech the hero is required to ...

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Shortly after his birth his mother married David Baldwin, a factory worker and Pentecostal minister. ... After graduating from De Witt Clinton High School in 1942, Baldwin worked at a variety of jobs, including waiting tables and working as a railroad hand in New Jersey. "After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... "I had to understand the forces, the experience, the life that shaped him before I could grow up myself, before I could become a writer"...

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Falling crop prices, high credit rates, and unscrupulous merchants and creditors left many croppers in debt after the harvest. ... After attempts at independent political action failed, a loosely knit confederations called Farmers' Alliances were formed during the 1880s. ... Addams and the rest of her peers did not know what life was like before capitalism and therefore saw no need to get rid of the system entirely. ...

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Before getting into the African American Freemason's specifically, it is important to understand the origins and beliefs of Freemasonry. ... Many years after Hall's death, the Prince Hall Masons continued to meet and promote lives of virtue, equality and democracy. ... By sticking to the traditions and guidelines executed by Prince Hall himself, the Prince Hall Masons have managed to stay strong and become truer than ever before. ...

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Parts one and three take place in the deep south before and after World War 1, whilst part two of the novel takes place in the north during the war. ... Before transatlantic slavery, Caribs the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands had their own slaves, who were forced into slavery mainly due to what we would now consider to be classism. ...

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After all whilst they had their support of some of the white population, changing the views of generations of racial bigots, particularly in the South was a journey fraught with problems. ... He led the fight in Atlanta to equalise teachers' salaries, and very similar to King Jr's Montgomery Bus Boycott, he refused to ride the city buses after witnessing an attack on fellow Negro passengers. ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. ... After his term as senator, Bruce was appointed registrar of the treasury. ... Before this, the only main crop in the South was cotton. ...

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After fighting in World War II from 1941 until 1944, Jackie played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues from 1944 until 1946. ... The team looked at each other after the speech and agreed to try and accept Robinson as a teammate. ... His persistence helped him finally win a World Series in 1955 after his team had lost four previous ones. ... After Robinson's retirement in 1956, he made his mark and created more equality and freedom for Negro baseball players. ...

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They had never seen a black person before and thought of them as lower human beings because they did all of the colonists' work for them. ... This treatment prevailed for many years after the Civil War. ... After a while, a huge mob of 3,000 whites were running all over the campus, chasing and beating anyone they saw who was black. ...

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This culture, like the need for an American artistic perspective, had been around and begging for an audience since the founding of the country (and even before). ... In 1817, shortly before Cuffe's death, the American Colonization Society was founded to accomplish his plan with greater efficiency. ... After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, not much militant Black Nationalist activity stirred as a result of terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan and lack of political interest. ... After one year, Garvey realized that his organization was in trouble and he went to America to raise funds. ...

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According to a wide range of civil rights and human rights organizations, the expansion of racial profiling after the September 11 attacks appears to have contributed to a climate of discrimination that indirectly encourages hate crimes against certain minority groups and people who look like them by conveying the message that such discrimination is acceptable and helpful in fighting terrorism. ... Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground...

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Africans were kidnapped (often by other tribes, in Africa slavery had existed before the white man entered Africa), treated like animals or even worse, and brought to the USA in chains. ... After the Civil War and the Emancipation Declaration which abolished slavery, everything at first seemed to change. ... Many Whites, who after the end of slavery had lost everything, found it hard to believe that their former slaves should now be equal to them. ... After he graduated from Crozer, King went to Boston University. ... He was released after the intervention of Democratic presidential candidate...

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The day after the game we went squirrel hunting and we had stopped at a gas station along the way. ... Tanner in the story was much like everyone else at this time period, unaware of the changes in the black community that had happened or that were going to happen after World War II. ... As before O'Connor almost makes them seem like it is okay to talk to people like that. ...

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According to The New Jim Crow, the racial caste system began before America was even a nation. ... Nearly two and a half centuries after slavery was introduced to the colonists, the Emancipation Proclamation declared that 4 million slaves in America were to be freed. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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Like Lo and Caine before him, Jian-Wa quite literally blends East and West through the casting of the role as well as through many of the attributes given to the character. ... A master of East and West and demonized by both cultures, Jian-Wa represents a position many Chinese felt themselves in after 1989. ... Unlike Vanishing Son that presents a renewed suspicion of the People's Republic of China and the Red Menace after 1989, Martial Law features a Hong Kong action star, after the 1997 change of sovereignty, who seamlessly plays a representative of the PRC government without any mentio...

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This issue really does need to be addressed before who some experts consider an endangered species may well be on their way to becoming extinct. ... Often times, young, Black men are viewed as being guilty even before they see the inside of a courtroom. ... It is a never-ending cycle because once they cannot find a way to live after incarceration, most turn back to a life of crime in order to make a living. ...

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When the Africans won their freedom after years of fighting to go back to their homeland, their trial sent a message out to everyone. According to Howard Jones in the book Race on Trial, "Black people had brought suit on behalf of their rights as human beings and, whether on the basis of law or morality, went freeIf they [blacks] found equality before the courts, the momentum would develop for their achieving the same status outside the courts. ... Historical Consciousness After watching the Space Traders I realized how angry I would be if our government allowed such an action which in ...

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