Abstract this paper will explore the histories of both Native American and African American cultures and their interactions with the dominant white population in America. ... A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. ... African American History with Native American Comparisons While Native Americans were fighting for their land from encroaching settlers, Africans were being captured and brought to America. ... Music was a crucial part...

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According to Prisonsucks.com, there are 11,695 per 100,000 African American males ages 25-29 in jail, compared to 1,685 per 100,000 white men, clearly showing jails are very racist and look for more African Americans to fill up their jail cells as a way to keep African Americans oppressed, even though Whites are just as likely to commit drug related crimes as African Americans (14). If Whites are just as likely to break drug related laws as African Americans, how is it possible that an African American man is 30% more likely to go to jail than a White man? ... Bush, 4,789 African Americans per...

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One of the predominant effects could be seen on African Americans' miserable destiny. ... When accused of keeping African Americans as slaves, some white planters even justified slavery by saying that it was better and happier for blacks to be slaves because they were inherently inferior and need to be supervised. ... Though theoretically, things were better in the North because of industrialization and accordingly lack of slavery, the way that society treated African Americans were still far from equal. In most northern places, while the white working class were gradually enfranchised, A...

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Many African Americans find incompatibility between their formal and informal educations. Since the majority of formal American education does not reinforce African American principles of family and community. ... Through time many African Americans have come to distrust the schooling system. ... Jackson, African American Education (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001) 268. ... Inside of desegregated schools African Americans often witness a resegregation. ...

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Many regional laws were passed specifically to mitigate the rights granted to African Americans by these new amendments. ... These laws forced segregation on the new citizens and led to poor conditions for African Americans. ... Another evidence of the continuation of racial hatred during the time of the amendment, was the treatment of African Americans during that time. ... People in these groups would not only kill African Americans, they would kill white supporters of African American rights. ... During that time newspapers and articles at that time disapproved of African Americans new ...

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Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... This new concept influenced Americans to start believing they were the only race fit to live and govern the nation of the United States, and this created somewhat of racial discrimination between settlers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans. ... Martin Delany, African American abolitionist, stated in his speech supporting black - nationalism that colored people are simply not identical...

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African Americans were present in the United States as a result of slavery. ... The idea of race is part of the reason why African Americans and Mexican Americans struggled to be included and treated equally, socially and politically. ... For example, African Americans were forced to sign labor contracts with white landowners. ... In order demonstrate their attitude toward segregation without violence, African Americans would perform sit-ins and boycotts. ... Just like African Americans, Mexican Americans secured legal protections for civil rights but the inequality of their outcomes remained....

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African Americans willingness to avoid conflict vanished; however, when a young black bather was stoned by white onlookers after drifting into a notoriously white area of the beach. ... Gang members, as well as angry individuals not specifically associated gangs, would brutally attack African Americans using their fists, wooden clubs, wrenches, or pipes (Tuttle 37). ... The Ferguson riots first erupted after a white police officer shot an unarmed African American teenaged boy and was subsequently cleared for any wrongdoing. ... Whites wanted to push out the African Americans and the African A...

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Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... The very first Cherokee to own an African American slave was Nancy Ward. ... The tribe interacted with enslaved Africans and African Americans in a multitude of ways. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... Meigs, Sr. counted 583 African American slaves held by Cherokee Indians (Davis). ...

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The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. ... Nor did any of the new governments allow African Americans any political rights or provide in any effective way for black education. This was resulting in each state passing its old slave code, which applied to African Americans. ... The amendment's most important provision, was to defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States or naturalized, thereby automatically making African Americans citizens. ... Resulting in, the final amendment left loopholes that eventually allowed souther...

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The African Americans gained their emancipation and new rights through the battling Northern and Southern factions of the United States, not because a majority of the country felt that slavery possessed a "moral urgency". ... A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. In this bill, the Senate objected to the idea of Congress protecting African- American voters in the South through federal supervision of state elections. ... The white Southerners had effectively disenfranchised the African American by the turn of t...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. ... The Freemasons created a whole new place for African Americans. ... These benefits created a sense of economic security for African Americans. ... African American fraternal orders helped form the base of the civil rights...

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The African American citizens have faced an insurmountable paradox. ... African American citizens have endured the unequal terms set by the Constitution. ... Although African Americans have gained many rights and come a long way since the Civil War, there are still issues in today's society when it comes to poverty and income. ... Although many Americans think that hard work will make them rich enough in order to live the American Dream, the sad fact is that most Americans are not rich and will never reach beyond the poverty line, regardless of hard they work. ... But it is also the Ame...

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I would evaluate that in response to the injustice brought on some African American prisoners, activist movements began to develop in order to face the political issues brought from the American government. ... In any context, I believe that most of the tensions arriving from that period had a heavy effect on the mass incarceration of African Americans in today's society. From reading the text, crime has shifted mostly on African Americans in low-income neighborhoods. Slavery in the 1800's was designed in a way for African people to work and a fully stimulate economic growth with...

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However the strengths Democracy provides were illuminated, through the surge of female evangelists, the increase of amendments granting Women and African-American rights, and the growth of the majority's power. ... Women's rights and African-American rights tended to go together, so, when blacks became eligible to vote they helped fight for women's equality. ... This attribute is one of the cornerstones of American democracy and policy. ... One such example is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in which this book gave whites a look at the more human aspects of Afr...

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Perman discusses the role of African American in Reconstruction and says that one of the biggest challenges for the North was to provide educational facilities to the black population. ... In addition education of the African Americans was also necessary to make them aware of their rights and the privileges they got as citizens of United States. The Northerners also needed educated work force for the Reconstruction work; moreover the African Americans were also aware of the importance of education and were motivated. ... The Reconstruction though initiated by the Congress was a struggle of the...

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Absurdity in Misguided Logic: Slavery Reparations During on of the darkest periods in American history, America fought itself over one of the most controversial issues ever to be argued: slavery. ... In order to pay back African American descendants of slaves, the government would have to shell out between 1.6 and 777 trillion dollars to satisfy those in favor of slavery reparations. ... During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy fought over many issues, but the central conflict was slavery. 350,000 Union soldiers gave their lives trying to free African Americans from slavery. ... Ameri...

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After the law was put into place African Americans still faced the struggles of segregation and discrimination. ... It was obvious that the 14th amendment did not bring equality nor stop African Americans from being discriminated against for jobs and getting into colleges. ... King complained that many states still discriminated against African American voting. ... By January, 1966, more than 90,000 new African American voters had been registered to vote in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. ... It took nearly 200 years to achieve equal rights for African Americans and ...

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Amid the close of the 1800s, American society was being molded into an industrial powerhouse. ... Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... Native Americans, through the late 19th century, had a growing involvement with blurring the lines between Indian identity and other Americans. ... Along with immigration came many changes and new culture brought into America. ... However, it was a huge advance in the environmental structure o...

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The Reconstruction Era was a very trying time for America. ... The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all African-American born people, the fifteenth amendment which guaranteed the right for a black male to vote. ... But this did not nearly end the struggle for African-American freedom. Organizations sprouted such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose acts of violence kept African Americans and white Republicans from voting, and gradually the radical Republican governments were overthrown. ... The Federal government did not provide the complete aid that was promised and the South kept up t...

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First settled upon in 1492, America has been around for just over six hundred years. ... For that reason, in 1619, the first Africans were brought to Jamestown. These Africans were brought in and sold to the colonists in order to be their slaves. ... Slavery indeed would help even further boost America's new found economy until the American Revolution. ... Unlike how the American Revolution affected America's economy, America's economy throughout the Union in the North played a great hand in helping them defeat the Confederacy of the South. ...

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The Civil War left America broken and disunited, and the following Reconstruction period between 1865 and 1877, was meant to put America back together socially and economically, and accomplish the unity pursued by the central governing body. ... Around the central characters are cruel drawing scenes implying the violent acts against African Americans. ... This move by Congress implied the shifting power within American politics system. ... Acting in the Republicans' Construction plan, Grant not only won the 1868 election, but he also won the Republican Party a strong African American vo...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... The settlers took advantage of the non-English-speaking Africans, condemning their culture and religious ritual practices, treating them as savages and leaving the laws open for vague interpretations. ... By 1861, seven Southern States had seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. ... Arguably, historians have loosely compared slavery in America to slavery in other countries. ... Slavery has been simplified to a part of our gruesome...

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While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... Although the average American had little power or say regarding the issue, many were brainwashed into believing African-Americans were inferior or unequal. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... In her article about African-American stereotypes, Monnica Williams says "Given that African Americans are a statistical minority in the US, the overwhelming majority of drug abusers will therefo...

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Yet, prior to the 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans were still enslaved. ... Laws, called Black Codes, were imposed to severely restrict the rights of African Americans. ... These events raised public awareness of the need for the African American community to ban together and demand equal rights. ... The success of the boycott was a sign that it was time for African Americans to start a new chapter in the battle for equality. ... Many African Americans were outraged by the continued inferiority placed on people of color. ...

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