Some white southerners, however, were still fighting the war and felt they would be until their death. ... Any attempt for a black person to get ahead in the world was threatening to the Klan and quickly put to an end. ... With the outbreak of World War I and the constant fear of a communist revolution, the Klan was reestablished and brought back into power in 1915, this time targeting more than African Americans. ... The end of the second Klan era was marked with the Great Depression and the Second World War, Klan members had found other issues to focus on, such as not dieing of hunger during...

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How Blacks were treated in the North & South in the 1940's The blacks were treated poorly in the south they were falsely accused of things they hardly ever did. In the north they were treated better; They were given better medical care and were allowed to have churches, but they where still poorl...

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By 1 AM most of the Easter end of the city was in flames. ... At 1930 they had won the protest and the Supreme Court was forced to make a law against the discrimination of colored people 1941 During World War II, the NAACP leads the effort to ensure that President Franklin Roosevelt orders a non-discrimination policy in war-related industries and federal employment. 1946 The NAACP wins the Morgan vs. ... Here were some important roles and achievements of the NAACP: In 1917 the NAACP fought and won the battle to enable African Americans to be commissioned as officers in World War I. ...

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When the French and English War started they tried to stay natural but then became a French-Indian warrior and were out to kill whites, while the Iroguois sided with the English. ... They were paid $6 a month and $1 per use of a musket. ... European colonizers built African slavery into most important form of coerced labor in the New World in the 17th century. ... The Caribbean was the most profitable part of the New World. ... The Chesapeake colonists were white from England and every 1 of 8 people by 1700 was black from Africa. ...

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Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, to James and Carrie Hughes. ... During the 1930s, while World War II was in progress, Hughes" main concern was writing about world issues in his commitment to racial justice (Bloom 125). He encouraged the Black Americans to support the war efforts and encouraged the government to give to its own citizens what they were advocating abroad (Harper 3). ...

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However, blacks were not alone; Native Americans experienced even worse situations; they were totally excluded from the Anglo world. ... On their way to the Indian territory, nearly 1/5 of the population died from exposure, sickness and starvation. ... Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden P...

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The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, but that is only the beginning of our problem. ... If this trend continues, about 1 in 3 black males born in 2001 can expect to spend time in prison at some point in their lives (Garrison 2011:89). ... The high rate of incarceration in the United States is largely due to the policies that were put in place in connection with the war on drugs in the 1980s and 90s. Unfortunately, these policies have produced largely unequal outcomes for communities of color due to "misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requi...

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World influence on the modernization of Africa developing systems on the way countries, nations, or states act, and base their policies on times that reflect what their past was like. ... Senghor believed there would be one world civilization, unique and universal one, through the process of enrichment, after the melting and mixings of people, race, and languages. ... Marcus Garvey was a man who seemed to have found dissatisfaction and frustration among millions of Negroes pushed northward during the World War 1. ... He devoted his every waking hour to the task of ensuring that blacks would es...

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The man that is introduced to the world is not the man that he actually is. ... In the poem, the accurate world has a chance to appear and we find out the soul of the real character. ... In "Negro Hero" we enter the story of Dorie Miller a black soldier who is struggling within himself to deal with the war that is going on in his home land against the black man that he is, a soldier fighting to save the people that more than likely want him dead. The speaker gets straight to the point when in the first line he says "I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them" (Brooks 1...

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In Richard Wright's autobiographical sketch The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, he writes, "My first lesson in how to live as a Negro came when I was quite small" (1). ... After getting into a "war" with a group of white kids, Wright talks about the punishment that he received from his mother, " beat me till I had a fever of one hundred and two. ... After learning the rules of the Jim Crow South, a black person sets out into the world to try and find a job. ...

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On December 1, 1955 a women named Rosa Parks refused to give up here seat to a white person, which broke a southern custom that requires blacks to give their seats towards the front to white people. ... Because of the baby boom after World War II, the culture in the 1960's was very focused upon America's youth. ...

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