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    cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.” African American superstar‚ Nick Cannon has beat the odds of being an African American men and getting married. This vow is rarely said by most of the African American males population. Over the last twenty-five years‚ marriage rates among African American males have declined dramatically. By 1994‚ the percentage of never-married men increased to 42.4 percent and only 46 percent of African American men were married (Statistical Abstract of the United

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    African Americans can trace their religious roots back to African religions‚ Judaism‚ Islam and Christianity. Christianity for the majority of African Americans became the dominated religion because of evangelism by Europeans. Instead of keeping the enslaved Africans submissive and in line Christianity enriched and strengthened the lives of African Americans to seek their freedom. Several of the insurrection and antislavery movements were born in the African American church. From its inception the

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    AP United States History African American Culture from the Early to Mid-1800’s Throughout American history‚ African Americans fought to establish their own culture. Even though they were silenced by white laws and stereotypes‚ African Americans created their own distinct culture‚ to a certain extent from 1800 to 1860. By mixing their African American traditions and Christian ideas‚ they formed a religion‚ their own version of Christianity. African American rebellions‚ though small and infrequent

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    has been a major concern of African and African American authors from the beginning. In fact African American identity underwent drastic transformations between the eighteenth century and twentieth century. As Amistad‚ "Federalist No. 54"‚ The New Negro and The Souls of Black Folks shows‚ African American identity has shifted from an early tribal identity‚ to a dehumanized identity based in slavery‚ and finally to a ‘new’ type of Negro identity based in art and African origins. These transformations

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    family structure is one of the major factors that contribute to the crime epidemic in the African American community. Family structure is the way in which the child and or children are raised. The mother and father play a significant role in the growth and development of children. Majority of Hispanic families are traditional. Meaning the family is raised by the biological parents. Compared to the African American family structure in today’s society where the families are not traditional‚ due to the

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    Slavery obviously had no small affect on the lives of millions of African-Americans in America. Both the North and South had strict rules on how the race was placed in society‚ rules that placed them far beneath any social class in America. It could be said that even free slaves‚ could never actually be "free" due to a complete lack of social equality granted by the American Government. Blacks were treated as something less than a human being‚ something like a product; this product was sold and traded

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    African American “Freedom” " I think it is better to see integration as the inclusion of all citizens into the same sphere of rights‚ the same range of opportunities and possibilities that our Founding Fathers themselves enjoyed. Integration is not social engineering or group entitlements: it is a fundamental absence of arbitrary barriers to freedom” (Cozic 206-207). Cozic states this in his book‚ Civil Liberties: Opposing Viewpoints‚ this quote means that rights should be given to anyone because

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    to talk about the history of the African American population in the United States without mentioning the denied rights and privileges. Freedom is defined as the power to speak or act without any hindrance from any other party or group. In the case of African Americans‚ their freedom and rights had been largely hindered by the white majority. However‚ the course of history was changed over time through various acts. The African American population‚ Native Americans‚ and women‚ were able to enjoy their

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    Effects of Reconstruction on African Americans Reconstruction generally refers to the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union. In 1862‚ Abraham Lincoln had appointed provisional military governors to re-establish governments in Southern states that were recaptured by the Union Army. The main condition for re-admittance was that at least ten percent

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    wanted to move north because there was supposed less racism and there were better job opportunities that would enable them to have better opportunities in life. When all the African Americans arrived in the

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