All she intended to do was to go home, but she received this altercation "Are you going to stand up?"" ... Nixon's home was bombed. In August a white minister who ran an all-black church and the only white member on the board of Montgomery Improvement Association home was later bombed. ... The boycott was costing the business thousands of dollars because blacks were less likely to shop in downtown stores and realized that the boycott was bad for business, and therefore wanted it to end. ... Four black churches and two homes were bombed including Rev. ...

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(That was the last straw for James Baldwin, he knew that he needed to leave his home since childhood for new experiences, and did so that very same day.) ... Baldwin would end up making France his home for over ten years. ... Sadly, he died of stomach cancer in December 1987, at his home in St. ... Charlie deals with the murder of a young black man, Richard, by a white shop owner, Lyle Britten. Richard is a bitter, busted musician returning home. ...

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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 responsibility of housework. ... Blacks were no longer denied the right to vote, shop, eat and swim where they want and were also allowed to attend integrated schools, rather than be forced to go out of their way to lesser schools meant only for black children. ...

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Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madame C.J. Walker, was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. She was born into a slave family to Owen and Minerva Breedlove. The family worked as sharecroppers on a cotton plantation.. In 1874, at the age of seven, Sarah's parents died during an epidemic of...

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Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 and came from an underprivileged home. ... Everybody admires your carpentry shop work. ... The children were all placed in foster homes. ... Someone needs to crack you up 'side your head.3 Malcolm was first sent to a foster home and then to a reform school. ... When returning home he began preaching about his newly formed philosophies. ...

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They were taken from their homes, and what little family they had, and put on plantations and forced to work against their will. ... He decided to setup his own little town full of shops and houses for his railroad employees to live in. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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Severe racism and discrimination by white southerners, particulary members of the Ku Klux Klan, pushed blacks out of their towns and homes. ... I can remember my grandfather telling me about his trips up seventh avenue on the bus and looking at the beautiful churches, social and civic centers, shops, theatres and other places of amusement. ... It was the headquarters of the NAACP and the home of Marcus Garvey and radicalism. ...

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Black Americans, like oppressed groups elsewhere, have rarely accepted the subordinate position forced upon them by the larger white society. American racism and exploitation have generated black protest. Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they l...

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Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. She states that the idea to write this novel c...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about him to me. Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towa...

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