The Apartheid state argued that these Bantustans, which were supposedly representative of the original homelands, were created so that black Africans in South Africa would have a home country of their own. The Group Areas Act also created "Colouredstans" and "Indianstans," so that all the racial groups would have separate home countries. ... Snellen discusses these home countries: In their "home counties" these groups will exercise rights of citizenship and enjoy certain political and economic liberties to the exclusion of all other racial groups which may happen to be there. Outside th...

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My African-American band director held the entire band over the bell one day to give us a lecture on Malcom X and Dr. ... His mother, a woman who could pass for white, stayed at home with the children while her husband, Earl, went around preaching the word of Marcus Garvey. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. The state workers felt Malcom was a delinquent child, and the state sent h...

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The house in the colonial times shaped the home. ... For example, while boys were off with their fathers, girls would stay home with their mothers, mostly helping out with the cooking, sewing and laundering. ...

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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. ...

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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. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ...

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To keep Blacks from registering to vote, poll taxes were raised, comprehension tests were held and the grandfather-clause was put into practice. ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... Although many Blacks were arrested or violently harassed and King's home was dynamited, the boycott was successful after one year and a few weeks. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious ...

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"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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"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...

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In early 1966, an even more important conference was held, sponsored by the Consultative Council on the South Africa, which was based in New York and closely closely tied to the American Committee headed by George Houser. ... 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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