... landlords lost money, creating the cycle of poverty (29). To help cope with these surfacing problems, Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau; it aided slaves with their needs and struggle for independence (23), but blacks still suffered. "When [Congress] convened in December 1865, it refused to seat the delegates of the ex-Confederate states . . . [and] Republicans prepared to dismantle the black codes ... -in at Greensboro with Anne Moody (117). The list goes on; Arkansas governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending...

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... standing, King was still subjected to segregation because of his color. Kings entire family was involved with the church and there were many high expectations that King would follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. King found that this way of life was not for ... the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. After he completed his junior year at Booker T. Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at ... the ag...

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... dehumanized and their history so distorted in academia that "slavery, peonage, segretation and lynching" were considered justifiable conditions. In fact, Professor John Burgess, the founder of Columbia University graduate school of Political Science and an important figure in American scholarship defined the African race as "a race of men which has never created any civilization of any kind..." It was this ... 21st century. Civil rights laws and celebrations such as Black History Month have exposed the legal consequences of overt discriminatory practices and racial harassment. The struggl...

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... passing of breakthrough legislation, several leaders emerged to lead this new civil rights movement. Ex-slave Booker T. Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. He taught his students useful trades so they could eventually gain economic equality. However, Washington stopped short of promoting social equality. In a famous speech in Atlanta, ... injured she traveled preaching the opportunities that were made by the new deal. On July 2, 1976, almost two hundred years since the United States of America passed the Decla...

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... other Americans led an organized and strong movement to fight for racial equality. The movement often met with strong opposition, such as in Birmingham, Alabama, where police sprayed protestors with high pressure fire hoses. In the early 1900's W.E.B. Du Bois established the NAACP, (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) which fought to end segregation, the separation of ... enforce civil rights laws; Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in most employment and in public accommodation, enlarged federal power to protect voting rights and speed up school...

• Word Count: 443
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... after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, African Americans have been struggling for the right to equal treatment that was promised in the Declaration of Independence. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution may have ended slavery in the United States, but it did not end racial discrimination and prejudice. In the years following the Civil War ... , he lost the popular vote, and only won the presidency by one electoral vote. During the later part of the 19th century, lynching in the South reached an all time high. During this same time period, steps were taken in southe...

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