I agree with Cone's thesis because in my public school I learned nothing about Malcolm X. ... King and X were the two largest driving forces behind the majority of the progress made in the Civil Rights Movement, however within the public school I realized that Malcolm X is not mentioned and that only Martin Luther King's legacy of nonviolence is celebrated. In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. ... After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only referred to hate and evil but never his love, hi...

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In many schools across the nation, the Emancipation Proclamation is praised as one of the greatest documents to ever happen to the black man. ... According William Julius Wilson, in his book When Work Disappears, "the overwhelming majority of African-Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded, schools lacking basic resources....

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, these men were true champions of patriotism. The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. The sectional division between the areas began in colonial times, largely resulting from geographical differences. ...

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• Grade Level: High School