It is the day that the Civil war began. ... The Civil War is important because it affected African Americans and their future in America. ... African Americans played a major role in the Civil War. ... During World War civil rights groups pressed the government to provide training for black pilots on an equal basis with whites (Memory). ... During the Civil Rights era, blacks organized sit-ins, boycotts and marches. ...

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With the eventual success of the civil rights movement, it is important to trace back to its origins and the people and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. ... Before getting into the African American Freemason's specifically, it is important to understand the origins and beliefs of Freemasonry. ... This was during the height of the enlightenment in the 18th century. ... The Prince Hall masons of New York helped serve as a route for non-political economic and social organizations to support the ongoing protests takin...

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The Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of America in the 1960's by banning discrimination of people based on race, sex, national origin and religion. ... One of the most important events that also started desegregation was the Montgomery bus boycott. ... Because of the baby boom after World War II, the culture in the 1960's was very focused upon America's youth. ... The Civil Rights Movement also changed the way people treated women. ... He was also one of the greatest civil rights leaders and inspired both black and white people. ...

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My aim is to further an understanding of this controversial era by juxtaposing different approaches of several important political and artistic protagonists concerning the role of violence. ... This quote, which was coined by the French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre, was used by Malcolm X in a speech during the last year of his life. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ... Obviously, during this time he was extremely radical in his opinion. ... As this still holds true today, his poem was adapted...

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Similarly, laws forbidding sex and marriage between people of different races were ended. ... The Movement also brought about important non-legislative impact on the American people. ... When examining the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement, one very important aspect of change is missing. ... When describing his high-school experience, Malcolm writes, "it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. ... Whites, on the other hand, have been fleeing to suburban areas of th...

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Equality was an important issue in many countries, especially Britain and America between the 1850's to 1950's and feminism and race equality major issues campaigned for. ... Liberalism was a political idea adopted by many countries during the 19th and 20th century and has been the source of many economic and social policies. ... However some people find it difficult to distinguish between socialist policies and liberal policies. ... The Kensington Society didn't however, because the feminist movement was soon taken up by many more people and for the first time in British hi...

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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. ... It is not uncommon, during these weeks in February, for African students in the U.S. to receive a number of invitations to speak at gatherings, schools and in community churches. ... In the words of Ralph Crowder, "the observance must be a testimony to those African pioneers who struggled to affirm the humanity of African peoples and a challenge to the present generation to protect and preserve...t...

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To know that two opposing sides generate a war via alleged interests or views is highly important. ... This also holds to be true for African Americans during World War II. ... From the Civil War up until World War II, African Americans fought with inadequate weaponry and in segregated units. ... African American roles: People at home. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

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To know that two opposing sides generate a war via alleged interests or views is highly important. ... This also holds to be true for African Americans during World War II. ... From the Civil War up until World War II, African Americans fought with inadequate weaponry and in segregated units. ... African American roles: People at home. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

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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. ... The civil rights movement began in the late 1950's. By the 1960's, the Civil Rights Movement ...

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The NAACP was a civil rights organization which included mainly American blacks, but this organization included many whites as well. ... Before the NAACP was founded there was a lot of racial discrimination against the blacks, most importantly there was a lot of lynching going on. ... Here are some important dates for the NAACP after it was formed: 1918 for many years" colored people were getting lynched for reason. ... At 1930 they had won the protest and the Supreme Court was forced to make a law against the discrimination of colored people 1941 During World War II, the NAACP...

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These writings really get into specifics regarding the treatment of African-Americans in terms of gender and color during this time period. Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. ... Due to slavery and other prejudices that existed during Douglass" era, there was no resolution to his complex social struggle. ... One important event occurred between Douglass and a particularly strict slave driver, named Mr. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divided...

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During the 1920's, African American was huge influence during this time. ... During World War I, more than 200,000 African Americans fought in the war in Europe thinking by when they come home there was going to be a change in equality and civil rights. ... Pauline Sabin was important whom thought of the union and created it. She was tired of the lack of civil rights woman had. ... The 1920's introduced the American people to a new way of life after the war....

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For Black Americans, this society existed in the south after the end of the civil war. ... The problems with race relations originated in the south during the reconstruction era after the civil war. ... This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. ... So fearing defeat, the democrats used violence and intimidation to keep black voters away from the polls during important elections. ... After the civil war, some blacks moved north to try and make a living, but most stayed in the S...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... Because of the youths' great desire to achieve a universal sense of peace and harmony, drugs were sometimes a very important part of one's life. ... s were controlled by the drugs and the drugs' effects than by the people themselves. ... Here people would just line the streets with drug use, sex, and wild music. ... During the several days of music, sex and ...

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Developments during this revolution include the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which gave rights to ex-slaves. ... In the period after the civil war, between the years of 1860 and 1877, many changes were being made to the Constitution, mainly the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. ... Although many constitutional changes were being made, things in the states stayed relatively the same as they were before the Civil War. ... After military reconstruction ended in the south things went back to the way they were before the Civil War. ... A few small social changes took place in the period after th...

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"Since the Emancipation Proclamation, African- Americans have demanded reparations, or compensation or remuneration required from a defeated nation as indemnity for damage or injury during war for the heinous acts slave owners committed against their people" ( African Reparations Movement FAQ's ). ... Japanese-Americans imprisoned in the United States during the second world war have received repayment, and so has the country of Kuwait from Iraq for their suffering during the Gulf war. ... What makes saving Iraq more important than making up for the devastating mistakes made by our ances...

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This setting is the most important fictional element that affected the theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Decades after the civil war, Southerns still were incensed that they lost the war. ... During the year of Jem and Scout's father's case; "the school buzzed with talk about him(Atticus) defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary."... Southererns disliked blacks since the black gained more rights after the civil war. ... Since the white people did not know the black people well, they just assumed bad things about them and believed untrue rumors about t...

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The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. During this period of time many people suffered in the south. ... Violence was the direct result of the South's racist attitude and it was an important part of the Southern atmosphere. ... "The only important clause in the oath of membership was a promise of absolute secrecy. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

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Just like I know that during the same year that Julia first aired, Kennedy was assassinated, Dr. King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. All of this history was at one point present and occurred during the same times and all of them worked together v/s including Julia v/s in impacting their own significance and the world around it. ... She was there to please the white people. ... At the same time, I think it was imp...

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Within the films Glory and Django Unchained, there are several depictions of how whites viewed blacks during the time of the Civil War. ... Although white Union soldiers were fighting for the freedom of enslaved African Americans, many of the whites in Glory still viewed blacks as slaves as opposed to their counterparts in the Civil War. ... Colonel Montgomery acted as if all blacks were uneducated and unable to grasp the basic functions that were essential to a soldier's success within the Civil War. ... For soldiers within the Civil War, shoes were an essential part of their training. ....

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During that time of the Civil War, the African-Americans who fought experienced racial discrimination and abuse. ... One of the people that we see who mistreated the African-Americans was Colonel James Montgomery. ... These soldiers endured a lot of pain to gain equality, such as unequal pay and getting the proper equipment for the war. Uniform and shoes were an important gear for the war. ... This movie changed the public views on them, they proved to the people of that time, that they're part of the country and people like them deserve acceptance and equality....

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WEB Du Bois WEB Du Bois was born a free man in his small village of Great Barington, Massachusetts, three years after the Civil War. ... In the South, he saw his people being drive! ... He taught school during the summers in the eastern portion of Tennessee, and saw the suffering firsthand. ... He became the most important black protest leader of the first half of the 20th century. ... Du Bois had established the Black Nationalism that was the inspiration for all black empowerment throughout the civil rights movement, but had begun during the progressive era. ...

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In "Everyday Use", the narrator shows how important culture and heritage is.  ... During the visit of Dee, conflict arose between her and mama due to the refusal of letting her take some of the families possessions. ... The quilt was mad from pieces of uniform material worn by the girls' grandfather during the civil war. The Civil War represents history to the African American people. ...

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