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. ... 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...the humanity of all peoples of African descent." ... He was nicknamed Satchmo because some people said that his mouth was like a satchel. ... He became world famous for his incredible ...

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Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. ... Ever since the discovery of the New World, black people have lived in Canada and have not been treated fairly. ... Although the Blacks fought their hearts out for the English after the war, they were still treated unfairly. ... During these times, work was scarce because of the end of the war. ... During this war, all of Hall's gun crew was killed except for him and one officer. ...

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Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. ... Suffragists under Catt threatened to discharge their traditional duties as homemakers and mothers in the increasingly public world of the city. ... Through the work of the abolitionists before the war, civil rights water sheds were established during Reconstruction. ... These people were the blacks, women, immigrants, and the many people...

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If hip-hop is destined to rule youth culture around the world, wouldn't you rather it be a reign that will unite and empower Black people everywhere (1)?" Finch argues that the message of gangster rappers is negative and if people want a positive view of hip hop and the world they should listen to rappers that don't condone messages of violence. ... And while this reality does exist, it is not simply a Black reality(2)." ... If that were the case, she said, gospel music would have saved the world(2)." ... What have been missed on the critiques are the lyrical contexts of t...

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However, to see freedom, a civil war, in which many African-Americans died, had to be fought. ... In October 1982, Reagan announced the War on Drugs. However, at the time less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. ... To justify the War on Drugs, the Reagan administration launched a media offensive. ... However, we chose the path of war. ...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too much, a rag tag group of militiamen stood up against the British for what they believed in and defeated one of the most powerful and expansive army's that the world has ever seen. ... 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. ... This paper w...

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After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, not much militant Black Nationalist activity stirred as a result of terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan and lack of political interest. ... He founded a chapter of UNIA in New York City and began publishing a newspaper called Negro World. ... He moved to Chicago and started Muslim Temple Number 2 and established his headquarters there. ... (Henderson, Errol A. 2) Hip-hop began in the early 70's. ... (Henderson, Errol A., 2) Meanwhile, J. ...

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New York City is situated in a prime location and has been drawing people from all over the world since its grassroots with the Pilgrims who settled Manhattan Island. ... De Witt Clinton, the governor and mayor, believed that New York City would become a world city as he oversaw the building and development of the Erie Canal in 1825. ... In 1672, when Holland and England went to war, the Dutch soldiers retook New Amsterdam and renamed it Fort Orange. When the war was over, it was signed back over to the English because the Dutch did not want the land. ... The wealthy lived in 2 or 3 story...

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She was one of the first African American women to run for public office in the United States, one of the first founders of the NAACP, and a respected journalist. 2) One of the themes that Giddings mentioned was the relationship between sexism and racism. Because both are motivated by similar economic, social, and psychological forces, it is only logical that those who sought to undermine Blacks were also the most virulent antifeminists 2." ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way t...

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Some real good books, important names and the lasting struggle for the same rights for blacks and whites in America are the result of the Harlem Renaissance movement in the beginning of our century. ... But maybe some day there will be a change. 2. ... Historians date this event in the period between the First World War and the crash of the stock market of 1929 . ... Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. ... So important names like Jean Toomer, Claude McKay or Rudolph Fisher were missing in the list of editors. ...

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The Harlem Renaissance spanned the 1920's and 'it was the period when the Negro was in vogue'.1 New York had become 'the capital of the black world'2 and Harlem was the site of black economic power and consciousness. ... In a letter to Frank Waldo he wrote 'my own life has been divided between two racial groups for the most part, ever since, I have lived between two worlds'9. ... To be', Alexander is trying to illustrate that Toomer felt that there should be no separations regardless of race, 'to prove to the world that the Negro race can be jus...

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On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus, setting off a chain of events that catapulted King to world fame. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Women's Political Council, the Baptist Ministers Conference, the city's African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zionist ministers, and the community at large united to organize a boycott of the buses. ... On October 2, 1960, King joined a sit-in at Rich's Department Store in Atlanta. ...

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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. ... Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a b...

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I expect to find: 1) conspiracy theories in both Black South Africans and African Americans and 2) that these conspiracy theories cover a wide range of issues dealing with origination, transmission, treatment, and prevention/protection. ... I expect to find: 1) similarities between both groups given their cultural heritage and 2) dissimilarities between both groups because of societal differences. ... This was called the New World Order. ... 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). A...

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Chapter 2 Mr. __ is gone for the entire weekend, chasing Shug Avery around town. ... When Shug agrees to sing at Harpo's, the club becomes an instant success, drawing more people that can fit inside. ...

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Lahiri uses Lilia as a human example of the implications of racism and how it is a problem in everyday settings for people whom are considered minorities. ... Take the most recent tragedy that has split the racial divide in America, the Michael Brown case and the people of Ferguson, Missouri ensuing reaction. ... Media is historically known as the peoples informant, and historically media has been known to portray things in a style that attracts more readers attention and stirs up more peoples reactions because with more news becomes more business. ... (freedomoutpost.com) With numbers like th...

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One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... Mexican people went to church on Sunday evenings instead of Sunday mornings with the other members of the community. ... They were told to leave because this bar was only for white people. ... The police arrived in time to prevent further damage and helped the people. ... When that child was only five months old, on August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered together for a freedom walk. ...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... 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 de...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate