Unlike Japanese Americans, African Americans did not face suspicion on their loyalty to the United States.  ... Before the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American had been an American military pilot and there were few African American pilots overall. ... Therefore, both the Japanese Americans and African Americans proved that the policy of segregation of military units was unnecessary. ... Because of that policy, Japanese Americans and African Americans were given the opportunities to earn positive recognition from other Americans. ... African Americans proved to be as successful as other Ameri...

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Japan thought of a strategy to down America. ... America proved itself as a superpower. ... After the war, the African Americans pursued their civil rights. Some returning African American soldier spoke of double-V, meaning double victory both from oppression and against the Japanese. ... America proved its military capability to the world. ...

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The Late 19the and Early 20th Century America began to deal with the inequities and lack of justice for mean of African decent in the 1800s. ... Other Historians cite that Lincoln had no choice but to free the slaves in hoes of African American men joining the losing forces of the North during the civil war. ... As such, once again there was a need to clarify the rights of Americans. ... The effects of Affirmative Action on Women, African Americans and the Disabled The enduring effect s of historical oppression include the losses of adequate education and honorable employment that has haunted ...

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Moore says that 31% of all African Americans in Florida cannot vote in Florida because they are ex-felons. Moore claims most African Americans in Florida are democratic as 90% of them voted for Gore. ... Moore sees African Americans stereotyped in movies and on the news. ... Moore discussed the common stereotypes of African Americans. ... African Americans are stereotyped too often in the eyes of the public. ...

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Out of these members, only ten of them were African Americans and only seven were of other minorities (Latina American/Asian). Out of 2,515 total post/tweets, 87.7% came from white MCs, 6.6% came from African American MCs, and 5.7% came from other minority MCs. Out of all of our members of Congress in our project 84% were whites, 9% were African Americans, and 7% were other minorities. ... This means that more African American MCs used social media for that distinct issue than white MCs. ... Some of biggest differences with African American MCs were the issues of civil rights, crime, and party...

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On January 20th, 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C President Barack Obama an African-American gave his first inaugural address. ... President Obama's attire was right for the occasion because it eliminated the stereotypes African-American is often placed with. For a long time people viewed African-Americans as an inferior race, incapable of doing anything meaningful. If President Obama would have stepped on stage in tattered clothes and appeared unorganized, those stereotypes about African-Americans would still be perceived as correct. ... The event was historical beca...

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Being the child of a white woman and an African father, the dynamic of his "blackness " was different. ... Then there is the relationship between President Obama and black America. ... I think Obama believed that if America was ready for a black president that America was also ready to let go a long troubling history of racism and injustice. ... We, both black and white Americans, have become more complacent with regard to racism and injustice. ... I think the American people always feel they are "owed " after election someone to office. ...

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I was the new president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (181). ... She was African American and a woman but she sustained an accomplishing career(Powell). ... I was thirty- four years old, trained as a nurse - midwife, and the new president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America-its youngest president ever, the first woman to head the organization since its founder, Margaret Sanger, and the first African American president. I was proud and honored on each of these counts, but I felt that being African American was a vital aspect of my leadership; that it provided insights a...

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Abraham Lincoln is considered one of the best presidents in American history. He had a great impact on American history that still impacts us yet today. ... Without him the north likely would of been defeated by the Confederacy, and African American's might still be slaves. ... This prompted many African-Americans to volunteer in the Union army and more than 180,000 joined, making up ten percent of the Union forces by the end of the war. There was opposition to this but African-Americans would not be willing to be given their freedom then have it taken away as Lincoln said in a letter to ...

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He was endowed with splendid wisdom, illustrious dignity, consciousness and insight that shaped and changed the American history. ... In the year 1858 Lincoln gave his most distinguished speech "House Divided" speech whish indicated several points, but what mostly important is stopping the importance of slaves from Africa, and holding slaves in free states automatically sets them free. ... Abraham Lincoln should be a role model to every individual and president to the United States of America. ... In my honest humble opinion, Lincoln was the best American president yet, and I doubt that b...

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These organizations were mildly successful in bringing about African American rights. ... The imposition of segregation, or Jim Crow laws, stripped African Americans of many of the rights they had gained during the 19th century. ... Originally conceived as the cure for discrimination, affirmative action now had no place in the lives of many Americans. ... When elected President, Bill Clinton gave the American people what they wanted, a white house staff that "looked like America." ... "Only six-tenths of one percent of senior management positions are held by African Americans, four-tenths of a...

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After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. Purposefully not trying to be anything like their previously rulers the British, Americans created a new one from the ideas of republicanism. ... The last thing on the agenda was a want for more government influence being placed in the hands of the people and for America to become the democracy that the founding fathers envisioned. ... Not long after WWII, during a time known as the Great Society Era, Congress passed thr...

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Its projected that African-American unemployment rate had climbed from 8.2 % to 11.2 %, which means that four hundred thousand more are without job since President Bush took the office. One out of three African-Americans that are in the work force are unemployed. ... His campaign is about who we are as Americans. His goal is to lead America to a time where it is not enough to protect our own rights under the law, but where it is a duty and an obligation for each of us as Americans to make sure every American is equal under the law. ... Our foreign and military policy must be about the notion o...

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During his presidency, he reformed American industries in order to give the rule of government back to the people to restore social justice and human rights. ... They believed that America could improve but in order to do so the government had to take more action, i.e. the people needed to get more involved. ... Meanwhile, Roosevelt had been on a long hunting safari in Africa. ... Roosevelt's "New Nationalism," which he had been preaching ever since his return from Africa, became the platform for his new party. ... The difficulty was that his platform was too radical for the America p...

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Vallandigham's anti-abolition and anti- New England views received the applause of three elements of Ohio's diverse population: Irish-Americans and German-Americans who feared emancipation would release a flood of cheap and competitive labor upon their communities and southern "uplanders" that brought their anti-Negro prejudices with them.# As a supporter of state's rights and slavery, he helped form the Peace Democrats. ... He gained a reputation as a critic and obstructionist, Republican congressmen paid less attention to his speeches and comments.# Vallandigham was dubbed ...

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This immediately reinstated Americans trust in the banking system, causing the American people to once again making deposits instead of withdrawals, and thereby eliminating the crisis. ... Later, I will discuss the sociological impact this had on the American society. ... Although his New Deal had not exactly benefited African Americans, women, sharecroppers, Mexican Americans etc. he was able to win their support. ... African Americans still saw prejudice in every aspect of their lives. ... On his path to a new and more stabilized America, FDR faced quite a bit of adversity. ...

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President Bush, touring Africa this week, declined an invitation. ... "Dewey Clayton, an associate professor of political science at the University of Louisville, said candidates who are "seriously trying to attract the African-American vote" will go to the forum."" ... The only other invited guest not to appear was President Bush, who recently returned from a trip to Africa. ... "What about the response from the American people when they were asked to pay their income taxes...by Donald Duck? ...

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Roosevelt (FDR) addressed the American public in his fifth fireside chat. At a time where several of his relief and recovery programs were in place and starting to effectively, yet gradually, raise the American public out of the Great Depression, FDR felt the urge to address his critics, who believed the expansion of government control over the economy was an infringement on American private life, and, subsequently, on classical American ideals and principles. ... The feminist movement earned women the right to vote, and African Americans were only a few decades from the thick of the Civil Rig...

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First of all, Parliament wanted them to pay the expenses of housing the troops in America. ... In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase "all persons born or naturalized in the United States.... Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. ... If you think this sounds unfair, many Americans in 1912 thought so too. ... By 1830, the Amer...

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It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. ... in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... During his terms he mounted a major campaign to overthrow the Sandinistas, the communist party which ran Nicaragua, sent military equipment to Muslim guerrillas fi...

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In addition, many Americans, including a sizable number of Republicans, believed that American society had lost its moral fiber. ... During the Progressive Era, the Republican Party split into two groups: those Republicans interested primarily in reforming America and those Republicans still favorable to business. ... The American people blamed Republican presidents for causing this economic downturn and chastised the government for not responding to the needs of the people more quickly. ... Nixon lied to Congress and the American people about his involvement. ... Black and Black (2008) furthe...

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In almost all American states the voters directly choose the nominees of their party in a primary election. The American president is chosen in a national convention, but in about two-thirds of the states the voters directly choose convention delegates committee to a particular presidential candidates. ... That is why I feel Al Gore is uniquely qualified to lead America in the 21st Century. Most Americans may know Al Gore for his leadership in Congress and as Vice President, but it is the families and values of Tennessee that have most shaped his life and career. ... This was an issue of c...

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According to the Portable Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson expressed in the "Notes on the State of Virginia" his observations of blacks or African-Americans as being "inferior to the whites in both the body and mind" (pg. 192-193), and that "nature has been less bountiful to them in the endowments of the head" (pg. 191). ... Jefferson believed that no degree of power in the government would or could prevent any uprising but it was notable that the American Government was lighter than that of France but heavier than that of England and America had only suffered one rebellion to speak of since the b...

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The American people were outraged by this increase. ... He sent envoys to European, Asian, African, and Latin American capitals carrying a message of America's desire for peace. ... When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. ... I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam. ...

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The film uses Garrison's character as an icon to represent any American who ever questioned the validity of the Warren Commission's claims. ... For example, when Stone wished to portray Kennedy's popularity with the African-American population, he did so through a single black woman's proclamation, "He did so much for our country, for colored people" (J.F.K.). ... Bernstein is the good guy to whom most of the American public can relate. ... In J.F.K., Jim Garrison is a single attorney fighting to prosecute key figures in the American government. Garrison was the only pe...

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