Then it spread to Chicago and New York and the other big cities around the country. ... This is when African American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, which is an area of New York City. ... Some of the main cities that the blacks moved to were Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Cleveland. ... This forced the blacks to go and make their own cities which were like cities-within-cities. One of the largest and most popular city-within-cities was Harlem located in New York. ...

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In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. ... Dalton describes his experience by saying he fascinated and disturbed by the local poverty, and that the Columbian villagers seemed to endure much more hardship that what he had witnessed in New York City. ... Even in his own neighborhood in New York City, he realizes what a nightmare it is to grow up in the crime-ridden neighborhood. ... Dalton realizes that poverty and crime are not only prevalent in his life and...

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At last after finding her place on the FBI's top ten list Angela is apprehended in a New York City motel with a companion named David. ... As Angela gets older she attends high school in New York City. ... However in New York City one was viewed as deranged if they attempted to strike up conversation with a passing stranger. ...

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Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

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Most of these feelings towards another of a different skin color are deeply rooted in our minds from previous generations. Many, many years ago, African-Americans were used as slaves. The slave owners treated them badly. The owner's own children then grew up with the same ideals and passed them on t...

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Set in the 1960's in New York City, James tries to figure out his mothers past while struggling with his own racial identity. ... She endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in black neighborhoods during the black power movement Ruth lives in New York City in a black neighborhood and attends an all black church. ...

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Lessons in a Dream In Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," a sequence of memorable proceedings develops into a story about humiliation. The gathering in the ballroom was the start of a race against time, himself, and the darkness that white men wanted to keep his kind in. He pretends he is invisible ...

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American's come from every ethnicity, religion and culture and as a result of the mixed ethnicity in US, there are more from Irish ancestry than in Ireland, more Italians in New York than in Venice, as well more Polish, blacks, Jews than in their leading cities of their countries. ... The income in New York is almost double than in Mississippi regarding the same ethnic group; lifestyle differs also. ... Puerto Ricans and West Indians from and around New York chose this area because of shipping and air routes in the 20th century....

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The Discovery of what it means to be an American Growing up as a poor African American in New York City, James Baldwin finds himself isolated from Whites and blacks with questions about self identity. ... This is a comparison between his views on life when he was living in New York versus living in Paris. While Living in New York (The New World), Baldwin was fearful of his surroundings. ... "I was born in New York, but have lived only in pockets of it. In Paris, I lived in all parts of the city "on the Right Bank and the Left, among the bourgeoisie and among les misérables, and ...

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John explains, "The whites seemed far away, out there in their parts of the city. ... They would live on separate sides of the cities. ... New York World Book, 2002. 17 Mar. 2003. ... New York: Signet, 1960 Charlotte, Denny. ... New York: Columbia University, 1996. ...

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In the years following Reconstruction, America changed from a country of farms into a nation of growing businesses, factories, and cities. ... A big portion of this immigration entered New York, which they later called the, "Golden Door." ... Manufacturing quadrupled from 1865-1900, and more and more people moved to big cities. Serious overcrowded cities developed, and middle and upper class city-dwellers moved into suburbs. ... These parts of the cities were segregated into ethnic and racial groups. ...

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The Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture In African American Women's Studies Leith Mullings is the Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Medical Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York. On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at Gambrell Auditorium she spoke in regards to "The Sojourner Syndrome: Participatory research and women's health in Harlem, New York. ...

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Malcolm X Malcolm X was one of the black African Americans who helps with the civil rights. Malcolm X was also known by the name El-hajj Malik El-Shabbazz. Malcolm X view that Western nations were racist and that black people must join together. The autobiography of Malcolm ...

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While growing up Malcome moved to many of the United States major cities, a main effect of this was turning little Malcom into a hardened criminal. ... In February 1965 Malcom X was shot dead in New York City during a rally. ...

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It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. ... These were boom times for the United States, and jobs were abundant in cities, especially in the North. ... The Harlem section of New York City which covers just 3 sq mi, drew nearly 175,000 African Americans, turning the neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world. ...

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James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in the year 1902. Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes started writing poetry in the eighth grade at Central High Schoo...

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In America people have the opportunity to do whatever they want, and in the film Do The Right Thing Spike Lee shows what it means to be an American, but he also shows why opportunity changed his view on oppression in the city of Brooklyn, New York. ... Mookie goes to work everyday and he works the hardest while walking up six flights of New York apartment stairs. ... Opportunity to grow as a black man growing up in a racial tensioned city of Brooklyn. ...

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She leaves New York City for Los Angeles trying to escape from Annie. ... In the article Black Female Domestics During the Depression in New York City, 1930-1940, it says that "Though black female domestics were exposed to exploitation and abuse, all employers were not mean, evil task masters. ...

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"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin...

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For two black males coming of age tends to be their major obstacle. Sonny lives in the North during the late 50s while the setting of Battle Royal takes place during the 30s in the South, both navigate their own paths to manhood trying to defy the expectations set before them. Being a young black ma...

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Sonny's Blues? James Baldwins's "Sonny's Blues" is the account of two brothers who grow up in Harlem in New York City. The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together a...

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Maria E Welbourne Eng.2 J.Corcoran The Celebration of Asian Americans has Obscured Reality Ronald Takaki vocalizes in his article that "The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority"is not to assume that all Asian Americans are indeed successful, so it's incorrect to generalize any particular race as superi...

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Each department from each city or county was required to complete and turn these forms over to the state, so the statistics for each city or county could be compiled. The two parts the state centered on were the Disparity index (proportion of stops/portion of population in the city or county. ... For example, population data used to calculate the disparity index does not include members of the minority community that reside in St Louis City and therefore increases the diversity of drivers on the roads within St Louis County. ... The following is an example of a story from an ACLU publication t...

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This really does happen in a number of cities across the nation, and St. ... When the city of Kinloch was first started it was a predominately white area. ... This phenomenon, referred to as White Flight, has unfortunately shaped many cities including St. ... As more whites left the city, more blacks moved in. ... Louis is a highly segregated city. ...

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When the police were after him, he took the train from Boston to Harlem, New York. ... There he continued illegal acts along with robberies in Boston taking trains in and out of the cities when the police were after him. ... He was appointed as a speaker for the Nation of Islam and quickly helped establish many new mosques throughout major U.S. cities. ... Malcolm X began his public advocacy for black Americans on the streets of Harlem New York. ...

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