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    African American Athletes in the 20th Century The world of sports wasn’t always the fun and games that we see today. In the 21st century the world of sports is decorated with many talented African American athletes from soccer‚ to hockey‚ to basketball‚ to baseball. African American athletes in the 20th century had to fight through the race barrier and face up against unbeatable odds to be able to do what they love. Jackie Robinson‚ Jack Johnson‚ and Jesse Owens are all African American athletes

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    America. They irrationally foresaw the loss of their own rights and of a black ruled world. A paranoia of a change in power that caused violence in the 18th century and how it carried over into the early 19th century will be emphasized in this paper. The white folk of the United States were threatened by the potential of black Americans exercising their freedom. They feared the possibilities of a black man’s

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    1. What were some of the reasons that African Americans migrated from the South to the North during the first few decades of the twentieth century. During the first few decades of the twentieth century‚ many African-Americans migrated to the North because they felt the North would offer better opportunities than the South. After the Civil War and the Emancipation‚ the South was experiencing an economic depression being that the cotton industry experienced several disasters. • First‚ after the

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    The lives of women in the nineteenth century were greatly shaped by an attitude that believed women should be domesticated‚ pure‚ pious‚ and submissive; true women focused their lives around the family and the home‚ influencing husbands and children by providing them a moral compass. These women‚ however‚ were shielded from the outside world and were neither influenced by nor a part of the politics and business taking place on the other side of their doors. The idea that women were meant for households

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    The 18th and 19th centuries‚ though facing difficulties from white oppressors‚ African American women were taking action by contributing their help and skills in the United States. Women dealt with the separation from their families‚ working in the fields with their infant children and sexual exploitation from their masters. As the cruel years past for the African American‚ women would find ways through creativity‚ abolition and community building to shape the way for America in years to come. Black

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    No one would deny that the 17th century was a century of witch hunts; thousands of women were accused and then subjected to tortures and interrogations such as being completely shaved so that the courts could ascertain if she had a witch’s or devil’s teat. Witchcraft was considered a crime against the church or state; an act of treason and a capital offense.” This meant that women found guilty of witchcraft or devil worship were put to death. The 1604 Act against Witchcraft and Conjuration was the

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    someone to gather new knowledge about something – whether it is an object‚ apparatus‚ etc – and to put that new knowledge together in an orderly way. According to Conceptual Integrated Science‚ Galileo and the English philosopher Francis Bacon came up with the scientific method in the 17th century as a tool to be used by people to practice science. The scientific method includes six steps: (1) Observe (2) Question (3) Hypothesize (4) Predict (5) Test Predictions (6) Draw a conclusion. The first step

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    Women have come so far since the nineteenth century. They have become so much more equal to and more independent of men. “The story of an hour” shows feminism through the eyes of a women in the nineteenth century which compares to feminism nowadays. You can define feminism in so many ways. But the main two are “The theory of the political‚ economic‚ and also social equality of the sexes” and “Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests as well”. (Merriam-Webster) Feminism has been

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    The first example of successful self-governing in the colonies was the House of Burgesses in the early 17th century‚ which provided the colonies with a democratically represented body.  In 1763 the French and Indian War had just ended and it brought with it the end of Salutary Neglect.  From this point forward‚ the colonists demanded independence from the king of Britain and the ability to govern themselves. The colonists decided to take matters into their own hands and rule themselves.  They declared

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    During the 20th century African Americans were rapidly entering the prison world for no justified reason other than racial discrimination. According to DuVernay‚ as time passed by‚ The United States prison population number began to increase to about 300‚000 by the year of 1972 and it became the highest in the world. She also stated that‚ “Should a little country with 5% of the world’s population having 25% of the world’s prisoners? One out of four humans beings with their hands on bar‚ shackled

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