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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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    Erasmus student CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ESSAY: Montgomery bus boycott Loughborough University May‚ 2011 In 1865‚ slavery was abolished throughout the United States‚ with the vote of the Thirteenth Amendment ("Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude‚ except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly recognized convicted‚ shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction") and the fourteenth (this ensures the right of suffrage to all citizens

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    be cited properly. Three point deduction per error. African Americans after the Civil War The African Americans played a major role before and after the Civil War‚ beginning from 1861 to 1870‚ which helped shape the course and consequences of the Civil War. In determining how African Americans shaped the course and consequences of the Civil War‚ one must assess how African Americans were given more opportunities. Politically‚ African Americans began to have a role in voting and to have the President

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    stop loving quickly...” The third is friends of excellence‚ where both people admire the other’s excellence and help one another strive for excellence. Aristotle says this about friends of excellence “...complete sort of friendship between people who are good and alike in virtue...”friends of virtue or excellence is hard to come by especially in the world we live in today because it is so much individualism. According to Aristotle the first two friendships are accidental‚ because in these case friends

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    During pre-colonial African kinship and inheritance‚ it provided the bases of organization of many African American communities. African American men were recognized for the purpose of inheritance. They also inherited their clan names based on their accomplishments‚ as well as other things when one decease. Land was not owned in many parts of Africa during the pre-colonial period. It was yet held and distributed by African American men. Access to the land by women depended on their obligations or

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    The end of the civil war should’ve marked a major turning point for the position of African Americans. The north’s victory marked the end of slavery and in addition‚ the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment guaranteed African Americans full civil and political equality. However‚ the end of the civil war and the beginning of the reconstruction era was seen a ‘false dawn for the slaves in the former confederacy and border states. 1865 saw the creation of the freedman bureau to provide food‚ shelter

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    Democracy as a Universal Value Amartya Sen Copyright © 1999 National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17 In the summer of 1997‚ I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found this to be an unusually thought-provoking question‚ since so many things of gravity have happened over the last hundred years. The European empires

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    In the United States during the 1800s African Americans had a difficult lifetime experience. They had many ups and downs between the three american reconstructive amendments‚ Dred Scott decision‚ and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. African Americans fought a long time trying to gain their equality just like everyone else. One of the main things that is involved with this is the statement “all men are created equal” by Thomas Jefferson. It was clear that this statement was not true. The declaration

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    Compare the activities of two civil rights activists‚ one from Australia and one from the US? The two civil rights activists‚ Martin Luther King from America and Pearl Gibbs from Australia‚ both hoped to achieve the same thing; racial equality. Martin Luther King and Pearl Gibbs both had similar experiences that motivated them to fight for what is right. They each took action to achieve their goals. Both Martin Luther King and Pearl Gibbs were recognised for how well they changed society and stopped

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    Morality 5/21/13 African Americans fight for equality From the time our country was founded‚ many African Americans lived a life of hardship merely because the color of their skin. In many instances they were treated as animals‚ being sold and traded in shackles and chains. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence when the country was founded‚ most African Americans worked as slaves. Working conditions for slaves were inhumane‚ who were often forced to work long hours in

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