The history of television is no different. ... After its pilot episode in September of 1968, Variety magazine printed, "One of the more dubious benefits in the long hard struggle for civil rights has got to be a situation comedy featuring Negroes. ... My mother, Wilma Davis (I know she's not a magazine review, but a worthy source, because she was fifteen when the show first aired) remembers many protests against the show claiming that Julia was a "white negro" and no better of a representation of blacks than Amos & Andy. ... Many blacks accused the show of showing no racism at all, wh...

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Sharecroppers had no choice, but to take these jobs that forced them into debt and had a negative effect on their lives. ... Trying to get an education also proved to be extremely difficult for all the families, and children often had to travel long distances usually one to two miles to simply reach the bus stop (Agee p. 159). ... In the long term FDR's deal aimed to fix the South by helping all the citizens in the nation, but many southerners refused to change their ways. ... The New Deal that FDR proposed at the beginning of his presidency may not have been the immediate success he had ...

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In literature, especially, most schools no longer emphasize the traditional canon of works and authors, but are instead teaching the literature of a wide variety of cultures. ... With ease and abundance and fast communications came an erosion of regional differences, a merged culture that many artists saw as a threat. ... Johnson snatches her ancestors' quilts from her daughter Dee, who wants to hang them on a wall, and gives them to Maggie, Walker illuminates her life-long celebration of rural Southern black womanhood. ...

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Although racism is no longer legal, it still exists. ... Crossing racial boundaries with ease is uncommon during the adolescent stage because during puberty adolescents start to question self-identity, and they start to think about who they are ethnically and what it means to be black. ...

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