Witchcraft is usually associated with evil and used to harm others, by causing accidents, illnesses, bad luck, and even death. ... Many times the people convicted as witches were given tests to see if they were really witches. One of their test was to take a broom and jump off an edge of a hill. ... Another test that was some what the same as the broom test was the water test. ... No test that was given was a fair test because the person always was killed. ...

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Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as violence and death. ... Kings faith in nonviolence was tested many times during the Montgomery bus boycott, but each time he just felt stronger and more committed to what it was that he had to do. ... Many people believed that Martin Luther king Jr's death marked the end of the civil rights movement in views dealing with nonviolence and in some ways it did. ...

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While Andrew Johnson tried to take over after Lincoln's death winning Congress' vote. ... This was waived for whites unless blacks put up a great fuss about them not being tested also (Encyclopedia Britannica). Louisiana added the "grandfather clause" which exempted from this literacy test all of those who had been entitled to vote on January 1, 1867 together with their sons and grandsons. ...

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Slaves began to work at a very young age and usually were separated from their parents most of them continued to work until their deaths. ... We have a come to know that every individual lives, from one generations to the next in society, that lives out a biography and that he lives it out within some historical sequence"(the sociological imagination page 5 b).I think is this a example of social structures that someone lives knowing that they don't get hired for a job because someone else was giving to it, or like the sat the blacks kids do bad on testing so is this a way of social networ...

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Maya Angelou, award-winning author of many books, is one of the most influential African Americans in American history, and lives a life far from typical. She's a poet, an author, a play-write, an actress, a mother, a civil-rights activist, historian and most importantly; a survivor. She was born on...

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King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test, supported and participated in a sit-in demonstration organized by Atlanta college students. ... Kings death caused a series of chain reactions all over the country and rioting in many cities. ...

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Some police officers have taken extreme measures in regards to implementing the law when it comes to African Americans. Law enforcement is professional, effective, efficient, and often regarded as a model to follow worldwide. Some would hold that a significant factor in the history of this professio...

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Simpson is arrested for supposedly murdering his ex-wife along with her friend, and Rodney King was ruthlessly beaten nearly to death by the L.A.P.D. on March 3, 1991. ... A factor that helped the case better is DNA testing on both victims and O.J.Simpson. ...

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