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    century is most memorable for the abolition of the Civil War. At this time‚ most African Americans were able to access the American society in many ways. They were able to acquire property after freedom was granted to them constitutionally. However‚ some parts of the south still exercised slavery which was legal. Most of the free African-Americans moved to the North where the prevalence of slavery was less. The African Americans who were freed contributed significantly to the national building in terms

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    Reparations of African Americans Teresa Burk Due to the fact that many African-Americans cannot trace their genealogy back more than three generations‚ It would be extremely difficult to distinguish between those who are descended from Freemen and those descended from Slaves. Therefore‚ although it should have some impact on reparations‚ we must take into account those who cannot trace their genealogy( approximately 3/4th of African- Americans). We also must remember that in essence‚ no African-Americans

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    Once slavery had been around in America for a couple of years the Africans influenced some of the European cuisine. During the early stages of slavery Africans wanted to escape to be free. Spain knew about that and since Spain did not like America they declared that any slave that managed to run away and reach St.Augustine would be free. Once most of the Africans heard about this they all tried to go to St.Augustine‚ while some succeeded many did not. For those that succeeded they managed to formulate

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    easier to live in. African Americans during the civil rights movement had to face a lot of trills in order to make the world a better place. Many people don’t appreciate that because they are unaware of just how much grief African Americans had to go though to create a path for the upcoming generation. African Americans faced many hardships during the civil rights movement‚ some of those hardships were segregation‚ voting rights‚ and assassination of prominent African American leaders. Segregation

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    Dance Revolution and the rise of women in the work force on the cusp‚ women in particular began to shed the traditional ideas of courtship and modesty. The 1920’s song “Sweet mama tree top tall; Wont you kindly turn your damper down” tells of an African American woman that is representative of the women of this time period. This song utilized a black woman to both appeal to the free-spirited figure that women craved to be‚ but also to alert them to stay in line for the men. The main lyric of the song

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    African Americans have suffered and struggled throughout their history due to a variation of factors. One main factor involved in causing this is due to the racial prejudice and hate crimes perpetrated against them. In the United States‚ there have been movements and laws to protect these individuals from such acts of hatred; but injustice continues today as it has in past years. Although‚ hate crimes are against the law‚ individuals continue to commit hate crimes against African Americans. Hate

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    back then in 1900’s for African Americans wasn’t easy at all. Dealing with slavery the African Americans had gotten the chance to enlist in the military as some of them did‚ they had thought that by doing so maybe on their return home and by doing right by fighting they would be looked upon as soldiers instead of slaves. “It was seen that though the African Americans comprised just 10 percent of the US population‚ 13 percent of the inductees were blacks.” The African Americans knew that enlisting the

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    good-looking are all the adjectives that women and girls aspire to be or encouraged to strive for in their life. From the first years of a young girl’s life‚ she’s told to wear dresses and comb her hair so when she looks into the mirror‚ she’ll see beauty reflected back at her so that consequently this shallow image of beauty is adopted by her consciousness. Yet as the years pass‚ she comes to a point in her life where the very aspect of her being is put into question because of what she’s seen on television

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    integral aspect of the African American community as the honoring of generational influence has proved to be instrumental in racial identity and communal solidarity. From seventeenth-century slave novels progressing to contemporary black literature‚ artists use their social status and nobility to act as a vehicle for elucidating the younger generation of the predecessors that challenged racism and societal discrimination‚ hoping for future generations to carry that baton. African-American history proves

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    I have been into american schools for six years. I’ve been dreaming of experiencing the african-American culture. As a child a was reading biographies and stories of Martin luther king‚ Malcolm X. The black history monthis to show that everyone could be equal because it doesnt matter if you are black or white you have and where you were born but everyone is equal inside.It is a time to remember those who showed us our equality African american 1890 there were many problems that they faced

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