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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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Racism in "A Worn Path- In Welty's "A Worn Path-, Phoenix Jackson's encounters with other characters as well as her thoughts and perceptions demonstrate a theme of impending black equality in the south after the civil war. ... The world that Phoenix lives in is a much different world than the one of today where equality is important. ... This statement seems to be referring to the blacks struggle to attain equality in a very unequal world during this period of unrest following the years of the civil war and the release of the slaves. ... He makes light of the fact that she is on, w...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, within the combined efforts of The Great Migration of the post war era, the work of organizations on the national level, as well as the effort of everyday African-Americans, an overall push from segregation to civil rights resulted. ... However, people did eventually begin to fight against the system. ... This American dissention was especially dangerous and important because of its un-American stance. ... During this time there was no longer room for the passive African Americans, willing to accept the white man's cruelty. ... Led by the National Association for the Adva...

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During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate States fought because of strong sectionalism. ... Power was very important to Shaw and he always felt the need to reinforce it, for fear that soldier may grow too accustomed to his leniency. ... Private Trip was too full of hate to make it in the world, his hate towards white men started out as his love for his people, but soon, he was full of hate for his own people as well, his fellow colored soldiers, who chose to conform and not fight back because they felt life was good. ... Most places where one can read up about the Civil War, it has...

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Ernest James Gaines is one of the most important African American authors of this century. ... Gaines left Louisiana during World War II. ... During college years, Gaines took odd jobs like shining shoes, dishwashing, and cab driving. ... Gaines was inspired by gifted young black people that he highly respected. ... The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is well over one hundred years old lady that relates a personal history that spans the time from the Civil War and slavery up through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, to see freedom, a civil war, in which many African-Americans died, had to be fought. ... The Civil Rights Movement and the Poor Peoples Movements success led to the passing of comprehensive civil rights legislation. ... " During the 1950s, the rhetoric of "law and order" gained steam when Southern governors tried to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights movement. ... However, at the time less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. ... However, we chose the path of war. ...

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In the middle of the 1930's and close to the end of World War I, an artistic explosion of talent and social growth had begun. ... There is one of the more important lines that stands alone and it reads," My soul has grown deep like rivers" (Langston Hughes n.d.). ... Claude McKay's role during the Harlem Renaissance 1920's was just as important as Langston Hughes. ... Both artists embraced the principle of "double consciousness "that was important to the survival of the black people living in America in the years of 1919-1920 showing detailed images of black ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After the First World War broke out in the early 1900s, North and West cities faced a shortage of industrial laborers. ... More importantly, the major pull factor of The Great Migration was job opportunity. Since there was a departure of thousands of European immigrants and Northern soldiers during the First World War, numerous jobs were available for black southerners. ... In the North, black men were considered political people who even had the rights to vote and hold office (193). ... Because of this the "New Negro" movement was born and the transformation of blacks from a predom...

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A Time of Change During the years of and following World War Two, there was a colossal shift that occurred in racial politics in the United States. ... Written in the first person of a man named Robert Jones, the novel reflects on these years of intense social change that arose during and after the war. ... These post war changes and changes in racial relations were not only restricted to African-Americans, but also Japanese-Americans had a particularly difficult time during and after the war too. ... This internal migration was important not only culturally, but also one, because of its e...

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• Grade Level: High School

During this time Baldwin attended Frederick Douglas Junior High School and DeWitt Clinton High School. During his school years, Baldwin won several awards for his writings. ... He also wrote three important works while in France. ... During his seventh year in France, Baldwin won several fellowships for his novel, Giovanni's Room (1955). ... Upon his return to the United States, Baldwin became very active in support of the civil rights movement. ...

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It was written during the realism period after the Civil War and in this novel Mark Twain satirizes romanticism, religious hypocrisy, and racism. ... I think Twain was saying that people during this time were hypocrites, they go to church to make themselves look good in front of other people, they don't really take it seriously. ... The most important issue during this time is racism, and Mark Twain was satirizing this issue when Huck argued to Jim about the Frenchmen and Jim said, "Is a Frenchman a man?...... Twain was saying that people during this time considered black people to have...

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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 towards Mexican people. ... During his first year in Chester, he concentrated on the New Testament of the Bible. ... During the summer of the year 1961 some groups of black and white students went with their busses from the North to the South. ... It was during this time that King and his wife had their last chil...

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The book is set in the 1930s in Southern America just after the civil war when blacks were seen as an inferior race and whites are superior. ... Each character in the book is 'infected' by other people's fear, which creates a society of people who conform. ... Terrorism and terrorist attacks create fear and can quite often be the cause of wars but are all people from these countries terrorists? ... A great example of this is when Boo doesn't come out of the Radley house during the day so the town's people fear him and make up a cruel nicknames that claim he is a monst...

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The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. ... The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. ... These people were jailed as if they were horrendous criminals. ... The women in the camps were stripped of all of their civil liberties and they were treated like they were animals. ... In their society, one family was part of a larger and more important group. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. ... As stated by Schraeder, one of "two important developments" contributed to pressures for change US foreign Policy toward south Af...

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However, their hopes and passion were disappointed after the war. In fact, the racial problem got worse after the war. ... The white and black people's relationship's influences of the Harlem Renaissance, and the positives white people's responses advanced the development of the Harlem Renaissance. ... He was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novels and promoting the arts among black peopleHis two ...

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During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... Lula represent the whites power in America during that time. ... But it does not quite work; the country cracks apart into war between the slave south and the free north. ... The play primarily pointed out several fault of people and of the society as a whole. ... The accommodationist ideology of the Civil Rights movement was about to be challenged by the new, often separatist, accents of Black Nationalism. ...

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In the 1800's everyone's feelings about slavery, good or bad, culminated in one big war, the American Civil War. During this period, the slaves really tried to break free from their past stereotypes. ... Some blacks even fought in the Civil War. ... This treatment prevailed for many years after the Civil War. ... This was an important moment in black history because it marked the first time a black person had been admitted into an all white college. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story is set in the time of the Civil War. ... Her family disowns her, however, because they disprove of her associating with such people, believing them to be unworthy of an education. ... Another important symbol in the story is the black stallion. ... Ned later went on to become an activist on civil rights and equality in his society. ... He was the heir to the Samson Plantation on which Jane worked for a period of time during her life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School