How accurate is it to say that the role of the Supreme Court was the most important factor in improving the status of African Americans in the USA in the years 1945–55? Supreme Court was an important factor when it comes to looking at the improvement of African American’s status. It challenged various factors such as education‚ voting rights and simply their rights in general. Whilst this is true‚ it isn’t the only factor that had an impact‚ other factors include World War 2 and federal government
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The 1960s was a decade of liberation for music‚ public opinion‚ dance invention‚ and The binds of racism(Blanton). In the 1960s the majority of the Vietnam war was fought‚ the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 also the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. The Vietnam war‚ John F. Kennedy’s‚ and Martin Luther King Jr assassination affected music in the 1960s by causing nation protest such as Woodstock‚ causing social unrest and depression and pushing and enlarging the Black Power
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Bob Dylan is recognized as one of the greatest rock and roll icons of the 1960s. Whether singing a topical folk song‚ exploring rock and blues‚ or delivering one of his more abstract compositions‚ Dylan has consistently demonstrated the rare ability to reach and affect listeners with thoughtful‚ sophisticated lyrics. It is safe to say that he has been able to define the mood of his generation through his songs which provide commentary to the restless age of the 60s. Dylan played the role of a spokesperson
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Sally Mann is an American photographer‚ best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children‚ then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Early life and education Born in Lexington‚ Virginia‚ Mann was the third of three children and the only daughter. Her father‚ Robert S. Munger‚ was a general practitioner‚ and her mother‚ Elizabeth Evans Munger‚ ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969
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-1 Racist‚ ignorant‚ lying southern folks convicted a black man for rape even though he did not do it… welcome to the early 1900’s. The events of the Scottsboro Boys‚ Emmett Till‚ Medgar Evers and many racially motivated murders and trials‚ gave Harper Lee the background for her novel. Just like in the Scottsboro Boys there was a man that was wrongly accused even though the “victim” said that the man never raped her and while trying to escape from prison was killed. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird
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In the work of Dr. James H. Cone‚ The Cross and the Lynching Tree‚ one is called upon to consider the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. As a theologian and historian‚ Dr. Cone explores with vivid details these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of Black America. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in humanity‚ while simultaneously quenching a thirst for liberation that refuses to let the worst determine
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My parents grew me on a blend of 70s Funk‚ 60s Motown‚ 90s rap‚ howling blues singers and timeless Gospel standards. The music I’ve consumed has never been apolitical. With the backdrop of poll taxes‚ the murders of Emmett Till or Medgar Evers or Fred Hampton or MLK Jr or Malcolm X‚ the hunt for Angela Davis and Assata Shakur‚ the Detroit and later LA Riots‚ how could it ever be purely catchy tunes? Of course‚ because these mediums provided a soundtrack to my growth‚ initially the depth of the issues
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organized demonstrations and boycotts of discriminating companies‚ and whose untimely murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the American legacy of equality. He worked to investigate crimes against African Americans like the Emmett Till murder‚ making him a high-profile citizen in his state. As Medgar Evers was graduating college in the early 1950s‚ battles for civil rights were being fought valiantly. Several attempts were made on Evers’ life as he supported equal rights movements
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Determined to succeed on her own‚ Elle studies hard and wins an internship with Professor Callahan‚ as do Warner and Vivian. They work with Callahan and an associate‚ attorney Emmett Richmond‚ to defend Brooke Taylor-Windham‚ a famous fitness instructor accused of murdering her much older billionaire husband‚ Hayworth Windham. Brooke was once Elle’s fitness instructor and a member of her sorority. Chutney‚ Brooke’s stepdaughter
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