His words, still very much relevant, haunt us even today: "When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered". ... (Dream Speech) African Americans have made many important scientific discoveries. ... African American Granville T. ... King's work was an outstanding victory: African Americans can now attend any university and obtain any job as long as they have the proper credentials. ...

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This gave African Americans the ability to have land and work. ... Americans responded by helping others in different ways. ... (Ch.26 American Journal). ... (pp789 American Journal). ... Anyhow with this boom in the economy came new ethics for many of major materialism, consumerism, and self indulgence. ...

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It also reflects the Beats" scorn for the pressures exerted by the forces of convention, and materialism. ... Also with Diane di Prima he founded, in 1961 the American Theater for Poets, an experimental dramatic troupe which read the works of various poets and dramatist in local coffee houses. ... He was growing tired of the Bohemians, he joined the Beat generation because he regarded its members as spiritual outsiders who were against white middle - class America. ... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and tha...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ...

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What is needed to improve the current educational system so that all Americans have an equal opportunity for education? ... Did desegregation truly improve the quality of education African Americans received? In certain parts of the country, African American students benefited tremendously. ... Even though it is clear many students have benefited from the desegregation policy, standard test scores for African Americans continue to lag behind their white counterparts. In addition, studies indicate that the number of African Americans ob...

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