... . Most lived in the northern colonies, where many European Americans such as the Quakers had freed their slaves. Although they still had to deal with segregation and other inequalities, these free African American women could marry and establish stable families and homes. They were also accorded a few rights by law, such as bringing suit and entering into a contract. Working mostly ... marriage. Recorded court decisions allowed married women to enter contracts, control personal earnings and even own separate property. Some even gained grants of land, owned plantations and slaves, and st...

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... . However, ignorant, frightened whites, led by capitalist instigators, were fearful that Blacks would totally consume the job market. Thus, lynching ran rampant. Finally, after the war, Black veterans returned home to the same racist country they had fought so heroically to defend. It was painfully apparent that it was going to be "business as usual."" Dr. DuBois, using the Crisis ... 2. Bring forth legal action against lynchers. 3. Set up a federal work plan for returning veterans. His literary bullets never stopped firing. They relentlessly blew holes in the idea that America was a fre...

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... Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are ... out much. In Upper Canada, many Blacks became farmers introduced tobacco farming, some made roads the railways, and other Blacks had enough money to own small businesses. Some Black communities even had their own newspapers; these newspapers were called the Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman. Some of the papers we...

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... whites who sympathized with blacks, many were infuriated by the "Negros" defiance to segregation. The boycott cost many bus drivers their jobs, forced many businesses to close, and increased already hostile relations between blacks and whites. Whites who supported black citizens were where treated harshly by their own. For instance ... injured some were require to stay in the hospital. The most deadliest attack was the bombings of Martin Luther King Jr's and E.D. Nixon's home, fortunately no one was injured. Jo Ann Robinson tell us that two white police officers threw a brick through her ...

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... After World War I, unemployment and inflation sky rocketed. The Army discharged six hundred thousand soldiers still in training camps and Navy brought AEF soldiers home from France. The soldiers were hustled back into civilian life. This now created thousands of men with families jobless. Women who did have jobs ... soldiers. The cost of goods such as food and clothing more than doubled over prewar rates. African Americans thought that their contribution to fighting and home fronts would get them better treatment. They soon found out that nobody was too eager to offer them that. Race ri...

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... as midwife. Four years later, Smith moved his household to San Bernardino County, Calif., where Brigham Young was starting a Mormon community. California being a free state, Mason and her daughters petitioned the court for their freedom, which was granted in 1856. Mason moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a ... Boston and became a sculptor, specializing in abolitionists and Civil War heroes. There her talent for drawing emerged. From Boston, she journeyed to Rome, home to many expatriate American artists, including several women. It was while in Rome that she created 'Cleopatra.' I...

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... . Between 1946 and 1964 there were roughly 76.4 million births. Some of these people were called hippies which was a name commonly given to the young people who liked psychedelic rock, free love and experimental drug use. Music was a huge part of American youth culture in the 60s; some of the most popular bands were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink ... women, equal chance of receiving jobs and less sexual harassment. Women were also no longer stuck in the role of housewife because they had more opportunities to work  outside the home and men stepped up in the sharing of the resp...

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... so great in the New South that it increased the number of labor fivefold and consumption of cotton eightfold. Unfortunately, for African Americans these jobs were limited to whites only. Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks ... not occur. The men had armed themselves and prevented their own deaths. Wells, feeling quiet strong about the matter comments, "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for t...

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• Grade Level: High School