... areas or weakened lesson plans for "troubled students." This action reinforces the class divisions between low-income students and higher-class students. It also levels the aspirations of both Clarendon Heights groups by subconsciously making the two groups accept their lower class roles. The Hallway Hangers see education and working hard as a waste of time. They see the illusion behind the ... Brothers" disillusionment can perhaps be attributed to the length of time their respective families have lived in the projects. Most of them have not spent more than a decade in Clarendon Heights...

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... 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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... 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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... 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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... the Fever, one would think that any common enemy or goal would bring everybody together. However, when the illness known as the Fever hit the city, prejudice rose to different heights. Prejudice and racism is bad enough as it is. However, the citizens of Philadelphia were making it look like they wanted the blacks and immigrants to come back into the ... ...

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... in Europe and the United States. However, it cannot be disputed that Apartheid in South Africa took ideas of segregation to its utmost extreme, and repressions soared to their deadliest heights. What really sets it apart however, is the fact that in most Civil Rights Movements the oppressed represent a minority of the population, but in South Africa, the oppressed stood at ... ...

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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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... were usually not a concern. Many newcomers during this period made the money that they expected to earn. Immigrants came in droves as the wealth of the city climbed to astronomical heights. With their coming, they caused foreign trade to climb as well. Many different religious faiths were practiced in NYC, and the only group that did not have a building in which ... ...

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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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... 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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