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    immigrants‚ particularly with the the Ku Klux Klan and African Americans. The KKK’s main goal was for a white‚ Protestant run America with a government and military backing them up to go against those of the black race within their country. Regardless of the United States being made of immigrants‚ the KKK saw the white ‘Americans’ as superior. At the same time‚ the Red Scare was doing just that‚ scaring Americans. The few Socialist Americans saw Communists everywhere in their country; albeit there

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    Thesis: Prominent African American leaders sought to advance their people on an economical stage‚ create meaningful‚ purpose-driven lives‚ and create a sense of harmony and wellbeing. Oppression manifests in several different scenarios. Southern United States history shows remarkable lessoned learned from segregation‚ oppression‚ and injustices. Courage to fight these injustices takes strong leadership. Changing the ideas and views of the incumbent society is no simple task. The abolishment

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    African Americans tend to fall under a lower class due to discrimination. African Americans are less likely to own a house‚ less likely to have a consistent job‚ and less likely to have the same pay as Caucasians. According to Shin‚ a personal financier‚ “The median white homeowner’s house is worth $85‚800 compared to $50‚000 for black homeowners. Discriminatory lending also exists today: Mortgages obtained by households of color tend to have higher interest rates” (Shin). African Americans are discriminated

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    African Americans and Discrimination Originally from Sub-Sahara Africa‚ thousands of African Americans were kidnapped and brought over to and sold in the United States during the Atlantic Slavery Trade. By 1860‚ before the Civil War‚ 3.5 million African Americans lived as slaves‚ mostly in the Southern United States. More than 500‚000 lived as free persons in 33 states across the United States (2008). Today‚ many African Americans believed to have come from European American or Native

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    Freedom African American culture is to be defined as language‚ music‚ religion‚ food‚ dance and art. Black culture is the roots of a black brother and a black sister. Black Culture is literature. Frederick Douglass an African American narrator and author of the novel Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass define black culture through his writings from being born as a slave to being a free man. Although Douglass’s life was a life of a struggling slave and experience James Olney’s 12 points

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    ideas of what constituted freedom have been varied. This was especially true for both the Native American Indians and the Africans. Even in times as early as the 1600s‚ the peoples of early America could not pinpoint a solitary basis for their freedoms. With inhabitants ranging from the Native American tribes such as the Catawba and Wampanoag to settlers from Europe and England‚ and eventually African peoples‚ such ideals were different in many ways: while some centered on one’s religion‚ others

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    The 1920s were a time of struggle‚ pride‚ fear‚ and creativity for African Americans. Following WWI‚ blacks fought for the conditions and rights that they were given while fighting in Europe. They fought through countless riots and murders to push for equality. They migrated across the country to escape the horrid conditions of the South. They created an entirely new cultural movement that spread like wild fire. African Americans of the 1920s created a momentous movement of political and cultural

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    The revolution that took place in America (1775-1783) is referred to as the American war of revolution or the war of US independence. The conflict ascended from growing strains between inhabitants of the thirteen North American colonies of Great Britain as well as the colonial administration which exemplified the British circlet. Skirmishes between the Colonial militiamen and British troops in concord and Lexington began the armed battle‚ and by summer that followed‚ the insurgents were pursuing

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    These were poorly built‚ overpopulated and were in a terrible state. Even now‚ there are bitter reminders of their efforts to centralise the African communities in to big cities. They had been that way for millennia since the land hadn’t supported large populations and that living in villages had meant that the spread of disease was minimal. If a village got it‚ it would remain a local issue and

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    paleness of one’s skin determined success minorities‚ especially African-Americans‚ seldom have the opportunity to prosper in the industries of today‚ such as Hollywood. Hollywood has grown into a pivotal commodity of the human society that not only entertains us as audiences‚ but shapes our beliefs and views as well. Hollywood racism‚ despite the denial of its existence‚ presets itself through the underrepresentation of African-American talent as well as the repeated recognition of said figures solely

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