John Lovell lists the purposes of the spiritual in this way: To give the community a true, valid, and useful song To keep the community invigorated To inspire the uninspired individual To enable the group to face its problems To comment on the slave situation To stir each member to personal solutions and to a sense of belonging in the midst of a confusing and terrifying world To provide a code language for emergency use (John Lovell, Black Song: The Forge and the Flame) Thomas Andrew Dorsey, who was the father of gospel music, has brought forth many different views t...

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This white man would think of all the stereotypes, all the negative thoughts associated with the black race that he has heard of growing up in that environment. ... John Rawls "realistic utopia" which he defines "political philosophy in realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition."... John Rawls book The Laws of Peoples; he describes the basic features of these peoples. ...

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The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. ... Hughes's poetry absorbed the rhythms of blues and jazz and the dialect of African American speech that he heard around him. ... Subjects included Harriet Tubman, john Brown, Fredrick Douglas, and Toussaint L"Ovuverture. ...

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The judge at the trial, John Howard Ferguson, had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states." ... In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States heard Plessy's case and found him guilty once again, stating that the act did not conflict with either amendments. ... The Supreme Court first heard the case on December 9, 1952, but did not reach a decision. Once heard again, on December 7th and 8th, 1953, the Court ruled that separate but equal schools are not valid because the learning materials may be equal but the opportunities...

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(John Tateishi pg. xiv) There were no grounds for evicting the Japanese Americans so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. ... California State Attorney General Earl Warren stated " To believe the absence of sabotage by the Japanese population was proof of loyalty was simply to live in a fools paradise "(John Tateishi pg. xv). ... Heard them up, pack them off, and give them the inside room in the badlands. ... Personally I hate the Japanese and that goes for all of them "(John Tateishi pg. xvi). ...

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Brewer, the manager, told authorities that someone named John Willard had registered with her at sometime between 3:30 and 4 p.m. on April 4, and was assigned to room 5B, which overlooked the Lorraine Hotel. ... A resident of the rooming house, told investigator that he heard a gunshot coming from the bathroom at the rear of the building, and he saw a man fitting Willard's description fleeing toward the front of the building and down the stairs. ... Next to the rooming house, two patrons heard a "thud" and saw a man, about 6 feet tall, around 30 years old and neatly dressed, running from ...

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Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. Washington accomplished many amazing obstacles throughout his life. He became perhaps the most prominent black leader of his time. Blacks could gain equality by im...

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They could finally express themselves and actually be heard, but we know that won't happen. ... Sure, maybe if you are Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, or Denzel Washington, but not if you are the average John Doe. ...

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