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    Between 1915 and 1920 African Americans saw the greatest changes since the Civil War. In those five years‚ over 700‚000 southern African Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this

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    Question 1: In 1900s as the population of the black community increase in many southern cities so is also the need to build more affordable houses that they will live in. The characteristics that plagued the black community in the 1900s even up till now is that majority of the working class in the black community are lower income earners. There is high rate of unemployment and crime rate. There also exists high rate of maternity. The challenge city planners face is to carry out a land reform considering

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    “The Problem of the Color Line” also named the “the problem of the twentieth century” by W.E.B Du Bois was defined as the impact of race and racism in the development of society. W.E.B Du Bois’ focus on the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as the basis of the construction of a capitalist and consumerist economy creates the argument that people of color‚ especially those of African descent or labeled as black‚ were socially disadvantaged as they became a commodity and denied basic human rights

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    The 1920’s were very eventful‚ but there is one way to sum it up. Americans wanted life to return to how it was before‚ back to normal. It was after the first major world war‚ and people were filled with suspicion. Americans felt threatened by people with different views‚ especially by communists and anarchists. Workers went on strike‚ feeling underpaid and mistreated. They also formed unions with the. Many African Americans moved from the more rural south to the north; this was the Great Migration

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    The Fight for Equality 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

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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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    In the 1900’s‚ there was a large population of African Americans who lived in the South. However‚ around 1910’s and 1920’s‚ they started moving out to other states. Some of them moved to other states looking for better jobs‚ while others moved looking for better education for themselves and their children. Some just wanted to escape the racism and the discrimination they were facing in the South. African Americans tried to go to the big Northern Cities because they thought they would have better

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    African Americans had been mistreated many years before the Civil War in the United States‚ and around the world. When the Civil War ended they thought they would have as many rights as whites‚ but they were wrong. This mistreatment‚ segregation‚ and racism continued well past the turn of the century‚ and even beyond World War I. Nowadays African American soldiers‚ and citizens of the world alike have so many more opportunities than back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As Addie W. Hunton‚ Kathryn

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    From 1865 to 1900African American freedoms were very limited socially. Black Codes said that African Americans could not marry anyone that is white. If someone that was black was not generally attracted to their own race or vice versa‚ they were unable to marry who they wanted to. The Ku Klux Klan burned many houses of African Americans as well as the white people that wanted to help them. If you were in any way positively involved with black people‚ the KKK would find a way to basically ruin your

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    Please show how Segregation shaped the lives of African Americans during the time frame 1870-1920. Please examine all faucet of society under slavery to support your argument. In the year of 1870‚ it was the re invention of slavery. America could not be built without economic. The south was still a negative place and they failed to accept blacks. After decades of discrimination‚ the voting rights act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels

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