The question that is on a lot of minds in regard to this case is what are these people afraid of? ... Obama is so conscious of how much these people fear and loathe him, that he will be watching his P's and Q's very carefully. ... He, and everyone around him, will be working very hard to see that every move he makes, every word that comes out of his mouth, gives no reason for fear. ... The powerful are getting more powerful, as the common people lose much of their significance in the marketplace. ... Forget the fear, and move forward, for our own sakes and for the sake of our cou...

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Peoples of African descent were visibly absent in any scholarship or intellectual discourse that dealt with human civilization. ... In the words of Ralph Crowder, "the observance must be a testimony to those African pioneers who struggled to affirm the humanity of African peoples and a challenge to the present generation to protect and preserve...the humanity of all peoples of African descent." ... He was nicknamed Satchmo because some people said that his mouth was like a satchel. ... He later moved to Harlem, New York, and soon became a preeminent artist. ... DuBois became a teacher and ...

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The mercantile obsession of Selig is not only focused on the sales of products made by Seth, but he is known as the "People Finder" (Wilson 2042). ... His great-grandfather transported slaves for their owners, and Selig himself locates displaced people for a fee. ... In his effort to discover his song, Bynum selects one that differs from his father's, but one that, nevertheless, promotes goodwill toward people. ... While Loomis is staying there, Bynum talks of a man who finds people for a fee. ... All four men, be it spiritual or economic happiness, have found peace within their lives...

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With all of these people moving into Chicago there had to be more housing, and there were many houses built to accommodate all the people. ... Lindner's proposal to not move into Clybourne. ... Chicago boomed with people and it was hard for some people to find housing. ... It was wrong and unconstitutional what people did to African Americans just so they wouldn't move into their subdivision. Today all people are free to move and live wherever they want to be. ...

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Richard had many reasons on why he wanted to move to Chicago. However, he also had motives that caused him to move. ... With this job, Richard experiences total demoralization and feels very violated by the white people that he becomes ashamed. ... Eventually they become reunited and move to Jackson. ... Richard knows that he must tell people a lie about moving to Chicago because the Southern white people do not like when blacks move to the North because it implies that the blacks do not like the way they are treated in the South. ...

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King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. Once he moved to Boston he became involved in drugs and gangs. He then moved to New York, and his life did not change. ...

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King moved to Montgomery Alabama. ... Garvey tired to organize blacks living in America to move back to Africa. ... After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. Once he moved to Boston he became involved in drugs and gangs. He then moved to New York, and his life did not change. ...

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His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. ... The search for employment made his mother and stepfather, Homer Clark, to move many times. Hughes moved between the households of his grandmother, his mother and other close family members. ... In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. ... He spent a lifetime exploring the emotional and physical lives of Black people in America. ...

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Still unable to take the bar exam he left his wife and new son and moved to Cuba and then to Mexico. ... When his grandmother died in 1910, he moved in with family friends and other various relatives in Kansas. In 1915 he moved back with his mother and new stepfather in Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended school. The following year they moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... While working many tedious low-paying jobs he managed to publish several poems to The Crisis (a magazine of the national association for the advancement of Colored People), one being "The Negro speaks of a River". ...

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Many African Americans came back from world war 2 and moved north and west. Many of them moved to the cities. ... Then came the Faubus sending in the national guard to stop nine black people from enrolling in a white school. ... I think that during the 1950's many people only viewed the civil rights movement as political and didn't give it much thought. The fifties may have been known as peaceful but I think everything was also a little bit more sheltered and rose colored than people would have liked to admit. ...

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It is about the same size and it is the same in every aspect except one, there are no black people who live there. ... I can't understand how people can believe that there are such huge differences between them. One of my friends told me about a black family that moved into the town once. He said that they had a girl that was his age and him and his friends were friends with her, but like after a week the family just moved. ... All the towns around Chapmanville have quite a few people of different races and they don't seem to care either. ...

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The seventh of nine children, Courtney and his family moved to the smaller town of Baytown, Texas to escape the crime and other pressures of living in the inner-city Houston area. ... After this, Courtney's mother secretly gathered her children while his father was doing a familiar stint in jail, and they moved to her hometown of Eudora, Arkansas. Like most people would assume, Courtney thought that this rural town in Arkansas would be full of farms and "country" people. ... To achieve this goal, Courtney decided to move out of Eudora and away from his family in the 10th grade t...

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I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989. ... Yet when I moved to Oklahoma I discovered that many of the small towns around me were segregated. ... He said that keeping people around me that were trouble meant that people would look at me as being trouble. ... People like what, I thought. ... My husband had a crippling wreck and we were forced to move into public housing. ...

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At a young age, Mary realized the importance of education, regardless what people said about education for African Americans. ... It was then that Mary decided she wanted to move up society's ladder so she would need a good education. ... Soon after the separation, Mary decided to move to Daytona, Florida. ... She met with several important people to get her issues across. ... Mary leaves behind a legacy for what she had done to help African Americans move up the ladder of society. ...

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This shows how the characters were tired of the living conditions of the apartment and wanted to move on to something better. ... Mama aint no black people living in Clybourne Park" (Hansberry 72). ... " However, it cleared the path and let others move closer to achieving their dream. ... With this being so it also made it hard for black people to be entitled to the American Dream. ... Like Black people in the 50's when the Economy was good and people could afford luxurious things, except for them due to their barrier of race. ...

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African Americans were segregated and moved into slums. ... So they're starting to move back to the city in droves. More and more people are putting off having children in pursuit of their careers. ... Many shelters will not accept people with children, let alone people with 3, 4 or 5 children. ... The poor will eventually be moved out OT make way for the rich. ...

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In the end though, a better life will prevail due to hard work and determination, overthrowing the negative association colored people have to face. ... "And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick." The Younger family ignored the negativity of one white man and moved from an old and small apartment to a large, nice house. ... "My son said we was going to move and there ain't nothing left for me to say." ...

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She interviewed over 1,200 people and dedicated over fifteen years of research to tell the epic story of the movement of an entire people. ... They each had a different story to tell; they each came from a different decade, and people could identify with their stories. ... Once trapped in the ghetto it became exceedingly challenging to evade, and when the Gladney's were finally able to move into a house in a white area, all of the whites fled to the suburbs leaving the area crime infested and drug ridden. ... My maternal grandparents moved from Mississippi into the Washington, D.C. are...

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Winfrey was a precocious child who begged her kindergarten teacher to skip her to the first grade; She also was moved to the second grade. ... When she was six she moved to Milwaukee to be with her mother. ... Then as she began to appear in movies, people realized she was a good actor and they fell in love with her. As a talented actress, Winfrey has appeared in the motion pictures The Color Purple (1985), Native Son (1986), and in the television move The Women of Brewster Place (1989). ... Throughout her life, Oprah has focused on influencing and touching people's lives. ...

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It was a historical moment known as "one of the most natural disasters in history, more than 23,000 square miles was submerged under water leaving 250 people dead. ... When the Mississippi river flood of 1927 happened many lost whatever they had such as their houses or belongings it was time where people needed a boost and help. ... Chicago was the hot spot to migrate to as many African American's did do so, Chicago had many jobs to offer to people since it was an industrial upcoming city. Being in the south was just horrible for African American people, there wasn't enough job...

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When one hears that word many people think of something or someone who has impacted their life in a positive way. ... She's an African American who is not only a symbol for black people everywhere, but a symbol for all people. ... She is a woman that many people across America trust, respect, and look up to. ... Oprah's mother moved to Wisconsin to find work, leaving her under her grandmother's, Hattie Mae Lee, care, hoping to move Oprah once she secured a job. ... Oprah moved back to Milwaukee to visit her mother after her third grade ended. ...

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The child represents the innocent people who were killed in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. This proves that Alabama was not safe for innocent people. ... Before the bombings and burnings of churches during the Civil Rights Movement, churches were seen as a place of safety for the people of the community. In 1963, church burnings and bombings were a fear of the people of the community leaving them with a feeling of insecurity. ...

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Throughout Maya's childhood, she moved back and forth, between her mother's house and her grandmother's house. ... She moved back to Stamps Arkansas, which is where she discovered poetry. ... (Biography.com) Although Maya's poetry and books are like by many, some people disagree with the fact that her poems and books are published. ... The book does a very good job at explaining how hard it was for Maya in times when Caucasian people thought they were better than the African Americans. ... And although some people don't like her, or her work, I think she is a ver...

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He moved to Alabama to become pastor for a Baptist church. ... In the following year he decided to move back to Atlanta to become co-pastor with his father. ... Prejudices have always and will always exist among people. ... He didn't want people to be "judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character." ... The rights of the people are now equal. ...

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Again, Obama uses 'It's the answer' a fourth time but this time in contrast to the others using simple triple adjective to move on from the past's negativity to change. ... This shows that he is just a normal family man, just like the majority of people in America. ... Obama moves on to talk about an extremely emotive and anecdotal story of one particular 106 year old voter. ... Such poetic speech personifies American history and again moves from negativity to positivity. ... He uses rhetorical questions to tell the American people that the answer to change and progress li...

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