On each episode, the main character Heathcliff Huxtable (played by Bill Cosby) who was a doctor, and his wife Clair (a lawyer), taught their children a lesson or moral of some sort with comic relief. ... No matter where you went in the country, almost everyone had heard of the show. ... His wife usually would then scold him and then they would laugh. ...
In 1965 he divorced his white wife Hettie and left the bohemian lifestyle he had lived for so long. This now brings us into the: Black Nationalist period 1965-1974 In 1966 he married his second wife, a black woman by the name of Sylvia Robinson. ... The theater dissipated in a few months but became the template for Black theaters across the country. ... At this time he and his wife changed their name to Immanu Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. ...
Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...
The Emancipation Proclamation was one major event in history that forever changed our country. ... Booker would travel around the country to raise money to build the new school. ... They sent him and his wife away for three months of strictly relaxation. ...
She was a devoted wife and mother and cared very much for her family. ... She attended the organizational meeting for the NAACP and attended meetings threw its starting years to reform the racial injustices of our country. ...
King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. ... Of the event, she writes, "I pray for this young man and the conditions in our country that have made him this way. ... Forty years later, despite some tremendous gains, Parks feels, "we still have a long way to go in improving the race relations in this country". ...
This new style of music caught the attention of many white Americans and soon became the most popular form of music in the country. All around the country "White Clubs" were hiring these new Jazz/Swing bands. ... Jean Toomer's father left his wife and son shortly after his birth. ...
It turned Harlem into a sensation, a phenomenon, an even¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ something that Americans elsewhere in the country read about the mass-produced newspapers and magazines. ... Hart stated, "He had a most dramatic meeting with his literary idol of the time, Vachel Lindesayhe had a chat with Lindsay and his wife, and was given a gift of Amy Lowell's John Keats, along with a note directing him to study the New Poetry" (Hart 617). ...
Living the American life during the 1870s was not an easy thing to do. Foreigners, freed slaves and immigrants were all desperately trying to better their lives. Although this was the beginning of industrialization in the United States, people, especially immigrants and African Americans found it ...
Living the American life during the 1870s was not an easy thing to do. Foreigners, freed slaves and immigrants were all desperately trying to better their lives. Although this was the beginning of industrialization in the United States, people, especially immigrants and African Americans found it ...
He follows through this fallacy by saying that whites "might out number us in this country but do not outnumber us all over the earth" (Malcolm 232). ... ur first name becomes "nigger," and your middle name becomes "boy" and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs.""...
