... By designing a car with standardised parts (the Model T), Ford was able to keep the cost down. Then, in 1914, the moving assembly line was introduced. Cars were assembled as they moved along a conveyor belt. Workers stayed in one place adding parts. This reduced the time it took to make a car from 14 hours ... of new roads were built and people began to move out to new states in the suburbs since they could travel to work in their own cars. The USA's second industrial revolution was not planned or organised by the federal government, though the Republicans were keen to take credit for it...

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... things, which almost every American desired. Many people were very happy about the development of suburbs. "We were all in the same boat we shared everything; we shared tools and cars, minded each others kids passed play-pens and high chairs from house to house- everything- it was at least to us- a paradise", commented one woman about suburban lifestyle. Many Americans ... . The dependence of the automobile increased as well, along with the rapid growth of the suburbs. People used cars to get from the suburbs into the cities. By the end of the 50's the number of cars increased greatly, a...

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... were not even allowed into public parks. Rabinowitz stated that when blacks wanted to ride the train, they were forced into the dirty smoking cars with a rough class of whites. Rabinowitz felt that the law that provided separate cars and equal accommodations was right. "It is only law which can be just to both of these classes of citizen, and at the ... had never come together anywhere else with such equality. "In their homes and in ordinary employment," as one observer noted, "they meet as master and servant; but in the street cars they touch as free citizens, each paying for the right...

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... would have paid a more efficient employee. Lowering standards in the workplace, to accommodate a race, is a step back to poorly made products. In the 1980's, American cars were marked with a distinction of poor quality. Since then, our cars have vastly improved, but the distinction is still planted in many people's minds. If we lower our standards in the white collar force, we may ... develop the same distinction in our corporate businesses as we have in our cars. Another point is that many people say that affirmative action will bring diversity to our workforce. A projection done by th...

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... an equal status as men. The mayor's wife, Miss Millie, lived a different lifestyle than Celie which did not require her to work and allowed her to have maids and fancy cars, yet she was still controlled by her husband who refused to teach her how to drive. He wanted to give her materialistic things to keep a high status, but still had ... a sense of control by not allowing her to go wherever she pleased, whenever she pleased. "Mayor _______ bought Miz Millie a new car cause she said if colored [people] could have cars then one for her was passed due. So he bought her a car, only he refu...

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... could not tend to white women (83). - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83). - Trains were required to provide "white" cars and "colored" cars (84). Ironically, the last two listed were not Southern laws; respectively, the last two were laws of Arizona and Maryland (84). White supremacy groups supported these laws effectively using ... ...

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... required no cab ride to be less than 45 cents. This left many blacks without a ride. They then came up with the private taxi idea. Black with cars would pick-up blacks without cars and drive them to where they needed to go. When whites could not end the boycott they got angry and there were several bombings. Whites also found other ... ...

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... hundreds of years of inferiority. Black Entertainment Television constructs the black race in a degrading way. Mainstream rap, which is the primary music aired on BET tells the story of expensive cars, alcohol, violence, drugs, promiscuity, and just about everything one doesn't want their child to see. Rappers such as Puff Daddy, who was recently found not guilty for possession of an ... a good definition of the Black race to the viewers. BET is almost sending the message that it is cool to be Black because one will be able to drive expensive cars and live in a huge mansion and be surro...

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... industries, and eventually spread worldwide. It gave people, especially the youth and woman, new lifestyles and notions of social and sexual freedom unexperienced previously. Women would save time by using cars to complete their daily domestic chores, and it gave them time and freedom never experienced before. The younger generation saw the car as an escape from over bearing chaperones whom ... had previously dominated their social lives. Groups of teenagers were able to travel together on their own. Youths saw this as a blessing, but parents had a quite a different view - they saw cars...

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... ; The United States had the world's strongest military power and its economy was booming. The fruits of this prosperity were very evident in the lives of the people – new cars, suburban houses, and other consumer goods- all of these were made available to more people than ever before. However, the 1950's were also an era of great conflict, as people ... ...

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... they will cross the street to the other side so that they will not be on the same side as a black man. Also at night when people are in their cars and see him walking down the street they will automatically lock their doors. When people see him their first thought is that he will mug them or even possible hurt ... ...

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... to speeds of 117 miles per hour. King ignored the flashing lights and ran a red light. Almost causing an accident, King finally came to a stop. Within seconds Los Angeles police cars and a helicopter arrived at the scene. The occupants of the vehicle were ordered to lie down on the ground. King's two friends complied. Rodney remained in the car. Officers shouted ... ...

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... American people not to ride the bus that way money is not being made in for transportation. Their car pulled to work and school, but the police were stopping the cars and giving them tickets. Martin Luther King did not let his people give up. Next, Martin Luther King is a hero because he is brave. In 1956, while Martin Luther King ... ...

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... Civil Rights Movement of Black People.  In the meantime white southerners continued to hang onto a long gone past by publicly exhibiting Confederate flags. These flags are still represented today on cars and buildings. These flags to me a re represented by people thinking its just a cool thing to display and not truly understanding the meaning. According to Brad Gooch, a biographer of O'Connor ... ...

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... the boycott many white citizens took their part in providing transportation to and from work for their black employees, but quickly faded with pressure from the white community. Churches bought cars and other means of transportation specifically for transportation system. The car pool was extremely effective and also became cost efficient. The most dramatic blow the MIA received was in February ... ...

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... store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me - at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse ... ...

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... witnesses for the defense arrested. [ ] The police were then instructed to transfer the seventeen prisoners that night to the county jail"(30). The police officers escorted the seventeen men into cars and took them to the county jail, but on the way they were halted by a group of armed men, which called themselves "Knights of Liberty". Knights of Liberty took the ... ...

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... did. City officials made it known that any taxi-driver charging less than the forty-five cent minimum would be prosecuted.2 The MIA would establish a system in which blacks with cars would pick up and drop off blacks that needed rides at designated spots. The system was so intricate that it was overseen by a Transportation Committee.2 The boycott remained and many ... ...

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... jail to watch over Tom to make sure that nothing happens to him. Scout, Jem and Dill followed him there to make sure that nothing happened to him. Suddenly several cars pulled up at the jail. A mob got out of the vehicles and demanded that Atticus step aside so that they could get at Tom. Frightened the children came running to ... ...

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... !" We hear this quote all the time when previewing movie trailers. It seems all they show on these trailers are the violent scenes, for example, the blowing up of police cars, the gunfights, and sometimes even worse than that. Why does this interest us? I believe it is because happiness and tranquility does not grasp the attention of the audiences anymore. An ... ...

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... males receive when out in public. Today however, the majority of young black males who wears the baggy clothes, long medallion necklaces, pagers, cell phones, has gold teeth, and drive cars with the loud music are automatically labeled as a thugs or even just no good men. This typically relates to the black man in public space who was considered as a mugger ... ...

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... transportation. The airplane is one of the most important inventions along with the automobile. The automobile was probably the most significant invention in the 20's. Invented by Henry Ford, these cars were more affordable to the public and made a lot to sell. The Model-T was the fist car be sold from an assembly line, and into the lives of the Americans ... ...

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... transportation. The airplane is one of the most important inventions along with the automobile. The automobile was probably the most significant invention in the 20's. Invented by Henry Ford, these cars were more affordable to the public and made a lot to sell. The Model-T was the fist car be sold from an assembly line, and into the lives of the Americans ... ...

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... transportation. The airplane is one of the most important inventions along with the automobile. The automobile was probably the most significant invention in the 20's. Invented by Henry Ford, these cars were more affordable to the public and made a lot to sell. The Model-T was the fist car be sold from an assembly line, and into the lives of the Americans ... ...

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... makes him slip up and admit that the bible is subject to interpretation. The law fails. Mass consumerism starts up in the twenties. People start buying durable goods, house appliances, cars, etc., on credit and with financing. Rural traditionalists hated this because now people were falling into credit debt due to machines. So, this prosperity of the twenties was artificial due ... ...

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