... first all black musical comedy, which was created, directed, and managed by all black theater professionals. "A Trip to Coontown" was the name of the play and it was a good starting block for black women. It opened at the Third Avenue Theatre in New York City and was the first true show. New York was very excited to be the founding place ... of this big up and coming thing. Bob Cole later teamed up with composer and lyricist John Rosamond Johnson to write the first two black operettas. The names of these two operettas were The Shoo-fly Regiment in 1906 and The Red Moon in 1908. The two ...

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... philosophy and method. While many white abolitionists focused only on slavery, black Americans tended to couple anti-slavery activities with demands for racial equality and justice. Some famous abolitionists are John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia to create a national organization to bring about ... the territories. Sectional conflict was intensified by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which declared that Congress could not exclude slavery from the western territories...

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... other states. About 700,000 slaves were starting to expand all over the states. When they arrived at their master's land, he gave his slaves their own names such as John Downey, James Wilson. The slave owner has these dirty, rotten shacks for his slaves to live for the rest of their lives. They have the men working in the plantation ... trying to let their children have the same education as the white children; it wasn't possible because of George Wallace, governor of Alabama from (1963-1966). A segregationist who tried to block integration of the schools and the city as well in his sta...

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