"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!" Malcolm X's observation is brought out by the facts of American History. Snatched from their native land, transported thousands of miles - in a nightmare of disease and death - and sold into slavery, blacks were reduced to the legal status of farm animals. Even after emancipation, blacks were segregated from whites - in some states by law, and by social practice ... preferential treatment to any individual or group in employment, public education, or public contracting. The present system violates the fundamental principle of equa...

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... after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. The first African slaves brought to the English colonies in North America came on a Dutch privateer that landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in August 1619, thus beginning the battle between the Whites and the Blacks. Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died ... -roots sensibility of the New Negro in much the same way the civil rights movement under the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., or...

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