This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. ... Among the emotionally explosive events of this decade is the Civil Rights Movement. ... Schools, restaurants, social events and even water fountains were segregated - whites and blacks shared very little. ... Though this was not the first sit-ins to occur this was the beginning of list of events that changed everything. ... The next big event that took place during the civil rights movement was the March on Washington. ...

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This struggle occurred before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, and it has impacted history through its events, its ideas, and its people. Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... Abraham Lincoln brought the nation out of civil war; Booker T. ...

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This division caused for a group of people who could not communicate with words, so the drums and banjo were " the most important instruments during this time." ... In the 1800s, an event occurred that changed the slave community. A civil war broke out in America and when it was over the slaves were free; the slave community had just become the black community. ... During the 1860's, before the Civil War, but after the birth of Negro Spirituals, a new type of slave song appeared in the South. ... The Blues was more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular...

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Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... The Harlem Renaissance made an important impact on American life through impressive contributions by many artists. ... A black middle class had developed following the American Civil War (1861-1865), increasing education and employment opportunities with a new sense of racial pride (Collier, 1985). ... World War I rallied many Black Americans with patriotic appeals to democ...

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As stated by Schraeder, one of "two important developments" contributed to pressures for change US foreign Policy toward south Africa during the late 1950s was firstly, a growing civil rights movement striving for the political equality of African Americans ensured greater official attention to the issues of race in both domestic and international policies...Reverend Martin Luther King led a demonstration on December 10, 1957 to denounce apartheid and call attention to South Africa's refusal to sign the UN Declaration on Human Rights... An important aspect of such actions was that they c...

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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. ... Some blacks even fought in the Civil War. ... Once the North had defeated the South in the war, the slaves were freed from bondage, however, that did not mean that they would be free from the terrible prejudice that still permeated the country. ... 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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According to Jessie Jackson, "A champion wins a World Series or an Olympic event and is hoisted on the shoulders of the fans. ... After fighting in World War II from 1941 until 1944, Jackie played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues from 1944 until 1946. ... " It's events like these that define who we are as people in the world today. ... Jackie's value of citizenship is important to his career and life. ... It is the national pastime, and accepting a black man playing baseball made it easier to see integration in more important instances. ...

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Ideas of Caucasian supremacy can be found throughout doctrines and scripture that exist in important Church documents. ... The life of the biblical figure, Cain, is a very important aspect of the literary work. ... As the Civil war began, the Mormon-dominated territory of Utah decided not to participate in either seceding from the Union or joining the Union army. ... Grant saw the Civil War as a blessing in disguise; they believed that the war would trigger a Mormon prophesied apocalyptic event that would cleanse society and eventually lead to ultimate Mormon control. The war over slavery d...

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It is important to read works of African American literature in order to be able to understand the trials and tribulations that slavery brought upon this particular group of people. ... Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder...... The people who believe that Americans should no longer divide themselves up into subgroups believe that it is no longer important to differentiate betw...

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For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. ... 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. ... 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 importa...

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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. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on ...

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Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance....

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Wilkipedia, an online encyclopedia, states that conspiracy theories is the belief that historical or current events are the result of manipulations by one or more secretive power. A conspiracy theory alleges that a particular event happened not due to an obvious force but by a covert team who manipulates a situation to work in their favor. ... 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). ...

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By juxta posing these four events Gast is suggesting that the inclusion of Muhammad Ali and black jazz music will bring about a stop to the persecution of the Zairians and the African-Americans. ... The scene where Muhammad Ali is in the plane is very important; it shows Ali seemingly alone in a plane flying over Africa to get to Zaire. ... This is important for him as he states "this is the most free feeling I ever had in a long time". ... Firstly by selecting this shot ahead of others shows that the scene is important so must be recognised. ... The example of the montage is very important in...

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Also we shall look at his famous "I Have A Dream" speech held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which along with Winston Churchill's "We Shall Never Surrender" speech during World War II, would become one of the most prominent speeches of the 20th century. ... The Bible was the most important book in their house but there were many other books as well. ... It had been a way out of poverty for Martin Sr. and as a schoolteacher it was equally important . ... Washington High School His mother and father were very important figures in his life. ...

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Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. ... Perhaps mo...

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