... other organizations. As mentioned earlier, the Elks really looked to provide backing to the NAACP. After World War II the influence of the Elks on the NAACP grew to new heights. The Elks publically acknowledged that their "full weight of membership, money and property" would go to helping the NAACP. The Elk's ability to influence all their members to ... not afraid to use their huge body of members and connections to validate that support. They held rallies and made speeches and pushed the intensity of their activism to new heights in the 1960's. The Elks would hold mass meetings in the...

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... today. The "New" woman secured her right to vote and forced congress to recognize her equality, all while breaking sexual tensions with contraception and leading The Women's Party to new heights. Tax cut legislation, revolutions among races, mass production of the automobile and the development of flight all changed American life forever. The 1980's, a period recovering from the Vietnam War, saw ... and events. With new tax legislation, the distribution of wealth in both decades was shifted to a very small percentage of the population. Secondly, the impoverishment of certain minorities ...

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... struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of ... ...

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... help themselves. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Six months and one day later, in Washington Heights, Malcolm X warned his audience of their dwindling abilities to gain freedom; that they needed to use the power of their votes in order to gain equality. These two men had ... ...

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... Hathaway's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," was revolutionary, in that they sought to instill pride of one's history, but at the same time motivate a new generation to reach new heights. As Hathaway says, "We must begin to tell our young, "Don't you know that there is a whole world waiting for you?"", he is calling for the teaching of black pride ... ...

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... and self-respect, and just does not only shine other people's shoes but is a lustrous person himself. Then he also meets a few men in Atlanta, who reveal to him the heights to which they have climbed in spite of all the obstacles and their involvement to the African American cause. He also meets a few common rational and receptive whites, which help ... ...

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... a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal to the majestic heights of understanding," King stemmed his beliefs and strong arguments from ideas of fellow extremists. When reading King's Letter from Birmingham Jail the first thing that came to mind was how ... ...

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... struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force." King persuades African Americans to struggle against the wrongdoings of society without the promotion of physical violence. His tactful means of fighting back ... ...

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... I feel that it is equally bad that we as a nation group people together stereotyping one person in a group as all the people in a group. So in order to reach new heights as a nation we must come together to show that color isn't everything, and in fact color isn't anything at all. Color is also defined as: a false appearance; pretext; disguise. I truly ... ...

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... African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, the city's first African-American church. When Mason died in 1891, she was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights. Nearly a century later, on March 27, 1988, in a ceremony attended by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and 3,000 members of the First AME Church, a tombstone was unveiled which marked her ... ...

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... how he stands at times of controversy and challenge. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physic al force with soul force. The dynamics of this moral value of non-violence are very evident in the make up of Martin Luther King Jr.'s character ... ...

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... on how equality and the end of hatred can be achieved, but they all believe that it is necessary and that it must happen without procrastination. Malcolm X's speech at Washington Heights on Easter Sunday spoke of achieving racial equality in a manner far different from Marin Luther King Jr. and Kennedy. His speech points the finger directly at the white men who ... ...

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... it, King cites Socrates" employment of this same method: creating healthy tension to stimulate intelligent thought. King's choice of the words "dark depths" to describe prejudice and racism, and "majestic heights" to describe understanding and brotherhood, subtly conveys the negativity of the former and the laudability of and necessity for the latter- specifically, it emphasizes the contrast between what is and ... ...

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... of me that pushes me to succeed even more and go against the odds. I realized a long time ago that education could be the kite used to lift me to higher heights and I won't stop until I am soaring with the birds. ...

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... there has only been one great intellectual, which is Toni Morrison. DuBois, Frazier, Ellison, Baldwin, and Hurston are all said to be good intellectuals, but they cannot compare to the heights achieved by black preachers and musicians. Black Christianity is the most troubling about literate intellectual activity. Since the last few years of the twentieth century , black intellectual quantity and quality ... ...

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... wherever they want, be in the same place as White Americans, house wherever they want and many other things. He was able and ready to lead our nation to greater heights through love and peace. America was sent a man of determination and strength at a time of negative race relations in our world. Martin Luther King, Jr. brought hope to our society ... ...

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