Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. ... Although victory went to the rebels this was the start of a free nation for the Blacks because all the British forces and Black loyalists had to flee north to Canada. ... The Underground Railroad is just a name of a series of secret network safe houses where Black runaway slaves could hide until they could be helped so that they could be free in Canada. ... In Upper Canada, many Blacks became farmers introduced tobacco farming, some made roads the railways, and other Blacks had enough money to own...

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• Grade Level: High School

They could not eat at lunch counters, register in motels or use whites-only rest rooms; they could not buy or rent a home wherever they chose. ... KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ...

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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. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

In essence, chattel slavery was a business. ... When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... My idealistic thinking was reinforced by parents who sheltered me from as much negativity as they can in this world which resulted in me experiencing dissonance when I came to college because I found myself in situations that very much differ from my lifestyle at home. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The culture of incarceration has transcended prison walls, transforming the free world into a shadow of the penitentiary. ... The struggle against the use of sweatshop labor in south east Asia or the Caribbean should connect us to a struggle against prison labor at home. ... When Davis began fighting to free political prisoners in the late 1960s, she and other activists thought incarceration rates had reached critical levels. ... And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant, and racially marginalized community has literally become big business. ...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor ...

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• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To this day, the systematic oppression of the black man and woman as a result of their kidnapping and being forced into slave labor has eternalized itself in our society and has found its home within the minds of the vast majority of white citizens. ... Black American's heeded to his campaign slogan of "Yes We Can" and invested all of their time and energy into ensuring that Obama would be instated as the President of the free world. ... Nearly two and a half centuries after slavery was introduced to the colonists, the Emancipation Proclamation declared that 4 million slaves in ...

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As proven in the later years of the National party, the ideologies of apartheid were continually being abandoned in the name of siding with business practices for economic prosperity in spite of the conflicts it posed with apartheid's goal of completely separating races. ... Because of its support of desegregation and legal equality at home, the Kennedy Administration was at least verbally committed to similar objectives abroad. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about him to me. Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towa...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School