the end of the Civil War‚ countless African Americans who were once held in bondage were considered free. With slavery demolished‚ and the once enslaved Africans freed‚ there came the question of what about the freed African Americans and what would become of the South? You see‚ “under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866‚ new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “black codes” (which would prevent blacks from owning land and from getting an education) to control
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In the Beginning of the 16th century‚ Africans were enslaved and brought to the United States of America. Separated from their history and language‚ African Americans somehow managed to preserve their spirit for music. The music helped to increase productivity in the daily task and reduce the feeling for sadness. The blues was created by African American communities in the deep South of the United States. It started in the 19th century and continued to make its way in the future. The blues was everywhere
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1920 to 1945: Determining the Role of the Federal Government and its Spheres of Influence The United States experienced vast changes between 1920 and 1945. The “Roaring Twenties” marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production/mass-consumption economy‚ which delivered fantastic profits to investors‚ while also raising the living standard of the urban middle- and working-class. Following the Great Depression‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity
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know that African American hair is different from other ethnicities. It’s really difficult for African Americans to get their hair to grow. They must also wrap it up at night in order for it to look nice the next morning. Products have allowed African Americans to change the texture of their hair over the years. The historical background on natural hair ‚ permed hair and weaves for african americans is extensive and goes back a long time. There are no chemical differences in African-American hair in
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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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insufficient education to everyone but the whites. The whites’ methods of “education” included deculturalizing Native Americans which made them forget more about their culture and way of life than they ever ended up learning from the school systems that they were put into. African-Americans were seeking any form of education and went to great lengths to get an education. African-Americans
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Whether we know it or not‚ black inventors have impacted our lives drastically. From the time we wake up‚ until we go back to sleep at night‚ we use at least one thing that has been made by an African- American inventor. Whether it is something as big as a traffic light or as little as a hair brush‚ black inventors have made major contributions to our everyday lives. Many people know about the big inventions‚ but both small and big inventions have impacted America. (Lund 2008) During slavery‚ most
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The war of freedom The actions and events that took place between 1765 and 1783 were truly one of the most influential moments in our history‚ this chapter in our history is known as the American Revolution. The American Revolution also related to the war of Independence began when conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies‚ which represented the British crown. One of the moments that led us to the patriotic movement was the French and
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To firmly grasp the underling influences that shape present-day social culture‚ especially in a country as diverse as America‚ social scientists endeavor to examine the real‚ un-retouched‚ and raw American Narrative from many different angles. What they then realize is that America is the sum of a significant amount of smaller‚ much more intricate‚ parts that can’t be easily taken apart for closer inspection without losing the elaborate levels of complexities that are tied to understanding the experiences
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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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