He is one of those people just on the cusp of escaping the contemporary and slipping into the historical-John Coltrane would have turned eighty-eight this year; Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned eighty-five-people who could still be with us but who feel, at times, very far away, as though they lived centuries ago. ... " The tinny sound from my laptop was Bessie Smith singing "I'm Wild About That Thing," a filthy blues number and a masterpiece of plausible deniability: "Don't hold it baby when I cry Give me every bit of it, else I'd die I'm wild...

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John Brown: He was a huge abolitionist who led uprising in Kansas and Virginia. ... The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. ...

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In California COTC members Geremy von Rineman and Jill Scarborough were arrested in a plot to bomb Los Angeles' largest black church. 1995 John McLaughlin, a close friend of Matt Hale, is sentenced to 2- ½ years probation after he is convicted of stockpiling weapons that were in the words of the COTC meant for the "Ultimate race war."" 1997 Jules Fettu, a member of the WCOTC whom oversees the churches official web site, and two other WCOTC members are charged with assaulting a black man and his son at a concert in Florida. ... Also in that year Guy Lombardi, WCTOC's southeast re...

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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. ... Subjects included Harriet Tubman, john Brown, Fredrick Douglas, and Toussaint L"Ovuverture. ...

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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). ... Personally I hate the Japanese and that goes for all of them "(John Tateishi pg. xvi). ... Since when are Cotton Ed Smith and Senator Bilbo and the Democratic Party of Frankli...

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Racial Profiling: "Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice" It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. It has happened to football player Marcus Allen, Olympic athletes Al Joyner and Edwin Moses, and it has happened to attorney Johnn...

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There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ...

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Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. He is just one of the motivating start buttons to the movement that I think could have been written about a thousand times and still not cover the complexity of his heart, strength and ideas. I believe this is why I have chosen to do my report on him out of all the other justices to date. His life alone has brought about so many changes in social, racial, and political America that without his assistance today's world would not be, at all, as it is at this moment in time. The book I read was called D...

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John Locke advocated this when he attacked the government saying no government allows absolute liberty-. ... The society consisted of just 11 women; they attempted to change the Reform Act with he help of Henry Fawcett and John Stuart Mill MP. ...

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