With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for the first civil rights movement that occurred after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. ... Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. ... Through the work of the abolitionists before the war, civil rights water sh...

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As a society, we have made so many improvements in so many different fields, yet the black man is arguably equally if not more oppressed than he was during the civil rights movement. ... Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. ... During this time, whites had to justify what they were doing. ... This led the south into an angry frenzy and put the economy in jeopardy. ... By the 1960's, the Civil Rights Movement ...

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The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or destroy slavery,9" therefore demonstrating that he was not committed to the equality of African-Americans in the "de facto" sense. ... Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United Stat...

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Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunities for unskilled workers to get jobs and make money for their families. ... After attempts at independent political action failed, a loosely knit confederations called Farmers' Alliances were formed during the 1880s. ... It can easily be said that the farmers agreed with Debs; out look on the capitalist system and they did not see the capitalist system as much to salvage and wanted to change it into a fair system between ...

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In the decades following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke out repeatedly against say rocketing rates of incarceration for ex-slaves. ... During the 1980s and 1990s state spending on higher education. ... Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. ... Fredrick Douglass claimed that many white criminals escaped punishment by blacking their faces during a robbery or a murder. ... We need a movement, Davis declared, on the scale of the Civil Rights Movement or the anti-lynching campaigns, to dismantle this pr...

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They exist in just about every society but heatedly arise during political upheaval or unrest (Astier, 1992). ... It is widely believed that through IMF, the World Bank, and national debt, they control the economies of many nations. The rumor is that when the time is right for them, they will create a third world war (http://www.freedomain.com/Catalog/catalog.htm). ...

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