The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. ... Rockefeller acquired his significant wealth from his very own Standard Oil Company. Through the Standard Oil Company, Rockefeller gained a hefty portion of the oil industry. ... In 1901 the company was sold for 475 million dollars. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. ...

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The Civil War and the following period of Reconstruction resulted in change but left many serious problems unsolved. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern part of the United States and the Southern part of the United States over several issues. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. ... Homer Plessy, a black citizen of Louisiana, sued a railroad company for preventing him from entering a railroad car set aside for whites. ... The Civil War was both a victory for the North and a draw for the South b...

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However World War 2 can arguably be said to have the greatest impact in African American history. ... World War 2 for the first time gave black Americans the chance to achieve in accomplishments, which without the War wouldn't be possible. ... Although the War was a key turning point, as some black Americans came back from saying "I went into the War a Nigger. I'm coming out a ma n " this shows for some black American that was in the War, their attitude changed about the racial discrimination as before the War. ... The little rock nine movement attracted the attention and company of ...

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In 1995 it was asked to King that to direct a boycott against a public company of transportations in Montgomery, because of the I arrest of a black woman after being denied to leave his seat to a white passenger. ... To the end, King believed that the war that then continued with full vigor in Vietnam did in viable the solution of the local problems of the human relations. ... For which refers to the War of the Vietnam, many felt that their problems lost priority and that the leverage black to should be concentrated in the fight of the racial injustice inside United States. However, at the ...

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Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... Douglass played a crucial role during the civil war; it was Douglass that convinced Lincoln that the war was more than just the preservation of the Union. ... Nearly two hundred thousand African Americans were estimated to have served the United States Army and Navy by the end of the civil war. ... Frederick Douglass was the President of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, he...

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The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil War, the U.S had the distinction of being the one of the only countries in the world where slavery was fully legal. Slavery was not said to be illegal by the government until January 1, 1863 in the middle of the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln in an document known as the Emancipation Proclamation. ... After the war, more movement toward equality was made. ... The bus company nearly went bankrupt and eventually the Supreme Court stated the bus company laws to be unconstitutional. ... Opposition took many forms,...

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Lawrence Hill & Company, Westport Conn, 1982. ... In the decades following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke out repeatedly against say rocketing rates of incarceration for ex-slaves. ... Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. ...

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Black residents in the area launched a bus boycott against Montgomery Bus Company. ... Eventually, this war among Montgomery citizens reached the Supreme Court. ... King's public criticism of U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War led to tension with Lyndon Johnson's administration. ...

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Depicting life before and after the civil war, all four archetypes are present in this film. ... Although Black films did emerge, it was for the most part produced by white production companies for a black audiences. Black Independent production companies such as the Ebony Motion Picture Company began to emerge in the 20's, but the stereotypes and subject matter stayed the same. ...

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There are many stories that Quaker Oats, the company that produced Aunt Jemima, has been telling over the years about how she became the person with the best pancakes and sold her recipe to them. ... During the Civil War, Union soldiers were threatening to rip Higbee's moustache off his face when Aunt Jemima interceded, offering the northerners pancakes, and the colonel was to escape. ... Even thought this is what the company Quaker oats promoted how the birth of Aunt Jemima happened this is not how it happened at all. ... For the first time in histor...

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Included in the prison industrial complex are private jails, state jails, the way jails make money, outside companies that make money off jails such as food companies, companies that make furniture for jails, prison guards, and other resources prisons need are all part of the prison industrial complex. ... After someone is labeled a felon, they lose rights to public housing, and it gets really hard for them to find jobs, which is why according to Michelle Alexander, seventy percent of the people who go to jail are right back inside within three months. (78) The prison industrial complex is a...

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"Located at 639 South Ninth Street" (119), it was named after a local World War I veteran and former dentist, Dr. ... Even large modern day companies employed African Americans throughout the 1900's, like Walgreens which even managed to employ African Americans during the Great Depression. African Americans were also business owners of such businesses like cleaners, tailor shops, clothing shops, insurance companies, and barber shops. ... This public housing project allowed for several African Americans in various standing to be home owners, like the people in the working midd...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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After the Civil War, the United States began to unite again with the southern states that had seceded and then been defeated. ... Since most of the war had been fought in the south, all the cotton fields had been destroyed and they needed to be plowed and restored. ... The term "Jim Crow" comes from a minstrel routine, "Jump Jim Crow," performed by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice before the Civil War. ... In Plessy's case, however, he decided that since it operated only within Louisiana the state could choose to regulate railroad companies. ...

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The film recounts the Civil War in the eyes of the Klu Klux Klan and how they opposed the political and social progress made by newly freed Blacks. ... The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was one of the first Black film companies. ...

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Chicago South Side During and after World War II many changes took place in America, but one of the most significant changes that occurred was the racial tension between blacks and whites. ... Though it didn't just stop there, Real Estate companies and other people even mayors tried to keep areas in Chicago segregated. ...

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Claude McKay , an immigrant from Jamaica, produced an impressive volume of verse, Harlem Shadows (1922), and a best-selling novel, Home to Harlem (1928), about a young Negro's return from World War I. ... It was an African-American company, but it only performed plays written by whites because plays written by African-Americans were not yet allowed. ...

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With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. ... These conflicts and the beginning of World Trade, the United States and its rise in power resulted in a World War. Although the government claimed to want to stay neutral we eventually ended up right in the middle of World War I. ... Our participation in the war changed everything for the United States. ... With higher wages peoples savings accounts increased and companies were investing their over production profits on new production. ...

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Book 4 Morley, Felix Freedom and Federalism Henry Regnery Company Chicago, Illinois 1959 Freedom and Federalism was written in order to discuss how America really stands on federalism. ... He starts his discussion from the Civil War era and moves up into the time period that he is a part of. His views on World War I and II are especially interesting. ...

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The government of the United States of America has been instrumental in having pressured the German and Japanese governments into the payments of reparations to the people who suffered and survived the crimes and legacy of slavery endured during World War II. The government of the United States has also already paid reparations to the Japanese-Americans who were detained in concentration camps during World War II. ... The company's revenue increased multiple times because of Black celebrities and the black spokesman only receives a minimum percentage of the net Pongee Bryant value....

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

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Prince hall masons were leaders in the fight to abolish slavery and extend rights and also helped build social organizations for black Americans following the civil war. ... At this time black insurance companies were not strong and white insurance companies refused to serve blacks, so the fraternal society was the only place blacks felt a sense of security. ...

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Martin's house was bombed and he along with other boycott members were convicted on charges of conspiring to interfere with the bus company's rules. ... The great initiative in this war is ours. ... Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." ...

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At fourteen years old, Williams enlisted and fought for the North during the Civil War. ... If a village refused to submit to the rubber regime, state or company troops or their allies sometimes shot everyone in sight, so that nearby villages would get the message- (165). ...

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He is the first black man to start a black owned music publishing company in America. ... During the post-Civil War years, the new Pentecostal congregational church, sometimes known as the Holiness church, transformed the congressional style of singing. ...

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