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    responsibility. It must not be denied them.’’ -Wyatt Mordecai Johnson (1922) (http://www.blackpast.org/1922-wyatt-mordecai-johnson-faith-american-negro) The Great Migration brought African Americans moving North in the 1920’s and the 30’s but in the the 1930’s African Americans did not find jobs easily than in the 20s.The Great Migration occurred between 1910 through 1970.Six million African Americans moved out of the country

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    Joey Steinbach Contemporary Issues Eric Ouren 3/5/2013 Test 1. Trace the development of Modernism from its early beginnings through its subsequent permutations and developments up to‚ roughly‚ the 1940’s In order to trace the development of modernism throughout history we must first define “modernism”. Modernism is the rejection of the ideology or realism and makes use of the works of the past‚ through the application of reprise‚ incorporation‚ rewriting‚ recapitulation‚ revision and parody

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    Residential segregation‚ which I define as the Latino and White spatial segregation by income for this paper‚ is an important concept to consider when creating health policies that are meant to ensure equal health outcomes among society as a whole. Although the World Health Organization defines health to be “a complete state of physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being‚ and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity‚” empirical evidence and statistics show that residential segregation has a threatening

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    Fashion Trends in the 1930s Vogue in the 1930s was much different from the trends now. Clothing styles were less lavish for most of the time period. The north/south were still separated‚ so they had access to different clothing. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a novel by Harper Lee‚ mentions some of these fashion trends. Some magazines were first published towards the end of the 1930s and captured the best fashion trends (The Best Fashions of the 1930s). The fashions favored in Hollywood were eventually

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    American Fashions were effected by the great market crash of 1929 and influenced by Hollywood and the movies. At this time Americans wanted to escape from the reality of not having any available jobs and money to a world of glamor. The 1930’s highlighted the female form with a more gentle ladylike appearance with curves and waistlines emphasized . Cloche hats were popular in the previous years which hid the foreheads ‚ this decade small plate shape hats were seen everywhere. Women clothes were sweet

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    innocence and experience‚ kindness and cruelty‚ love and hatred‚ and the struggle between blacks and whites. The novel explores several racial issues to do with this struggle between blacks and whites‚ one of the main being the racial issue of segregation‚ the discriminating separation between these two races. In much of the country of the United States‚ black people‚ “negroes”‚ were pretty much forbidden to share the same spaces as whites. This included public transport‚ recreational areas‚ and

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    The Red Scare caused a large dispute between the Un-American Activities Committee and Hollywood in the 1940’s. The Hollywood Ten‚ a group of writers and directors‚ were sent to jail‚ “for contempt of Congress after they refused to testify about their past associations.”(Henretta‚ pg.746) This very well known event in history was one I had known about‚ but was unsure of the exact details. I went in search of the events that lead up to arrest of the Hollywood Ten. During my research I read many

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    Farm Life in the 1930’s Questions I have always lived on a farm for the majority of my life. Nowadays life now on a farm for me is much more different then how life was back then. The kids back then had it tough too they most likely had to work all day on the fields and your future was already determined once you were born. Just because there was no one else to take over the farm once your dad got too old or incapable to work. So with this said you were going to take up on you fathers trade

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    The Dustbowl of America in the 1930’s The Dust Bowl of North America was a disaster in the early 1930’s when huge parts of the Midwestern and Western farmlands of America became wastelands. This happened due to a series of dry years‚ which agreed‚ with the extension of agriculture in unsuitable lands. Droughts and dust storms caused by poor labor practice troubled farms and ranches of the Great Plains; causing a great migration of its people to other‚ more fertile‚ lands. The problem had become

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    Alex Brown English 1221.8 Dr. Bauer 25 April 2014 Racial Segregation Across the United States America faces racial discrimination and segregation. The issues are more prevalent in the South‚ but exist in the North as well. The abolition of slavery and the repealing of the Jim Crow Laws brought an end to the idea that African Americans are inferior from a political standpoint. Southern authors‚ Ernest Gaines and Toni Morrison‚ use their novels‚ A Lesson Before Dying and The Bluest Eye‚ to highlight

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