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    African American History

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    Prior to the Civil War‚ many African Americans were the minorities. They were not even considered citizens in the United States. During this period African American were slaves‚ working in fields and being servants for the white slave owners. During the year of 1861-1865‚ the union states were fighting the federate states in which the union won and slavery was later abolished. After this period‚ things for African Americans did not change. Blacks were segregated from whites‚ they were still considered

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    Throughout history African Americans have been discriminated‚ and to this day are treated horrible. It has gotten better over the years so much so that they can do the same things everyone else can. This wasn’t always the case especially in the 1800’s. Even though this was the case many were able to use art to feel free. Many of them used art to spread a message of their social division. This was so people would understand their social‚ economic and political inequality. Many African American were

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    The African-American Race

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    The African American race just as the name suggests were originally from Africa. They have had struggles throughout their live in the United States.  When we talk about their culture‚ what that basically means is the kind of perhaps new ways of living that they have brought in the United States.  A lot of scholarship for decades has emerged and this is in relation to the African-American people. Slavery and slave trade is the major and beyond a shadow of a doubt the main cause why African Americans

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    African Debt Crisis

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    (Global) The debt crisis has spread across Africa in the last decade and the reasons that gave rise to excessive African indebtedness in the 1970s and early 1980s‚ and which caused it to balloon from $140 billion when the crisis emerged in 1982 to over $270 billion in 1990‚ has been amply documented elsewhere.(Revisited) Global apartheid‚ also is one of the reasons that caused African debt crisis. Global apartheid manifests itself in many different ways. Its attributes go beyond racial discrimination

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    The History of African Americans HIS204: American History Since 1865 Instructor: Steven Harn 04/29/2013 Jewish people had the horrific era ordeal of the Holocaust‚ Native Americans had to deal with the displacement of their people which lead to death‚ starvation and exposure to diseases while in en route to other locations. However one could suggest that African Americans had an extremely rough time‚ and till this day continue to have a rough time fighting for equality in all things. This

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    African-American History

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    African-American history is the part of American history that particularly talks about the African-American or Black American cultural gatherings in the United States. Most African Americans are the relatives of black African slaves persuasively bring to and detained hostage in the United States from 1555 to 1865 (Franklin‚ V. P. 1992). Blacks from the Caribbean whose progenitors immigrated‚ or who immigrated to the U.S.‚ additionally customarily have been viewed as African-American‚ as they divide

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    Stereotypes of African Americans have been around since slavery. Once media got involved it was able to give society a visual as to how other races portrayed them. With television‚ it’s becoming more and more vivid of how bad the stereotyping is getting. Now a day’s some writers of these shows and try to hide the racial remarks‚ while others are blunt with it and receive no type of punishment for their actions. You do have some sitcoms that will shine a positive light on the African American community

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    African Americans Plight Throughout U.S. History Published by Shirley H. Sanders

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    westward in the early 19th century‚ new territories were seen as an opportunity for a fresh start and opportunity for economic success. However‚ this was not the case for all Americans‚ especially African Americans. The new northwestern states (Ohio‚ Indiana‚ and Illinois) impeded the migration of African Americans‚ and severely discriminated against those that were able to settle in these states. Although these were free states‚ the northwestern states had very small black populations especially

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    Eric D. Joseph May 9‚ 2006 Afro-Amer. Hist.4223 The African-American Odyssey The Promise of Reconstruction‚ 1865-1868 The emancipation of the African slave who was now disconnected from their traditions and way of life after nearly 300 years‚ is seemingly a great gush from the dam to the ebbs and flows of the struggle. The end of slavery as we know it‚ presented a ball of mixed emotions among the nation; North and SOUTH. Some slaves were grossly ecstatic to be free. For example

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