The fight for independence for African Americans in America did not end with President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. ... Tyler's book, "African-American Life in Louisville. ... African Americans also found their niche in the local communal activities. ... African Americans found success in a variety of offices, like Dr. ... Even large modern day companies employed African Americans throughout the 1900's, like Walgreens which even managed to employ African Americans during the Great Depression. ...

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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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She wanted a reform of the treatment to African Americans in society. ... She wanted to stop all violence against African Americans but especially lynchings. 1. ... Wells-Barnett was an extremely influential African American woman. ... Wells lived in was very hard and troubling for African Americans. ... As a writer she began to criticize the differences of treatment in schools between African Americans compared to whites she later lashed out against lynching and beatings of African Americans. ...

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A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In recent news, an article came out involving three African Americans and the network ABC. ... " In the hit television show "Grey's Anatomy", the main black character has light skin and blue eyes, which gives the audience the perception that being light skin African American is more appealing than a dark skinned African American. ... The agency did a casting call for African American men are &quo...

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Since the beginning of the United States of America, there have been problems with who is better than the rest. ... The heaviest burdens of racism in the country have fallen on Native Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans, and many other immigrant groups and their descendants. ... When this law was passed not only did it affect African Americans but it shook the whole nation. ... Bitter people who believed that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake have taught their sons and daughters to hate African Americans and anyone that does not look like them. ... "Rather than...

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During the early 1900's in the United States of America, African Americans were subjected to racism, hatred and violence at the hands of White Americans. ... The poem To The White Fiends shows a theme of hatred towards African Americans from White Americans and pride and value of being an African American that does not project hate. ... It seems that the question is directed to the White Americans hatred for African Americans and seems anger filled. ... When he writes this he means that the African Americans were put with the White Americans to prove their value. ... So in other words, M...

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Throughout American history and even to this day, African Americans have always struggled for their rights. ... At the time the United States was in the midst of a severe depression, African Americans found themselves in beggary (Sharp 82). ... Roosevelt message to Congress on January 1941 though that really rallied the African American communities. ... Not long after such sediment, African American Union leader A. ... The statistics, which are the clearest barometers for determining and measuring the quality of life of African society, show that African Americans continue to lag behind whites...

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The NFL, an organization with a large amount of African American players, only employs three African American head coaches. ... Still, there is a push for more African-American head coaches to be added. Another place lacking a sufficient number of African American head coaches the NCAA. ... Alabama interviewed an African-American by the name of Sylvester Croom. ... As stated, over fifty percent of division I college athletes are African American. ...

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Over the years, the American perspective towards affirmative action has fluctuated dramatically. ... In Source A, the drop in African Americans who are being admitted to California colleges is shown. The numbers are stated: "African American freshmen at UCLA dropped from 7.1% of the class in 1995 to 3.6% in 2012. At UC Berkeley, African Americans made up 6.3% of freshmen in 1995 and 3.4% last fall. " This drop in enrollment of African Americans at California state colleges may be due in part to Proposition 209, passed as a law in 1996, which eliminates affirmative action measures in Calif...

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Media has a big influence in how people perceive African Americans and other minority groups. The media usually depicts African Americans as typical drug users. ... Some people just have negative views towards African American groups and other minorities. ... Slavery has caused many people to perceive African Americans differently. ... African Americans would have been perceived as actual humans instead of criminals. ...

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Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. ... In his speech he preached a philosophy to the African American race of self-help. ... He stressed the need for further education in the African American community because he believed that African American leadership should come from college-trained backg...

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Invisible Man captures and addresses the many struggles facing African Americans through IM at a time when blacks were perceived as greedy, emotionless and less intelligent than whites. ... The white economics house represents the modesty of the African Americans, which is what IM's grandfather told him to be careful about. ... The black and rust from the pipe, as well as the black paint base, tends to get overlooked by society due to preconceived notions of African Americans, deeming them to be useless and less valuable than others. ... IM is now has more aware and understanding as to w...

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While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). ... African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... Trials are rare, only very small numbers of criminal cases go to trial - the rest are plea bargained- with most African Americans defendants never getting to a trial. ... In 2000 only 4.2% of attorneys were African American, 3.4% were Hispanic, and 2.2% were Asian. ... A recent Gallup poll showed that nearly two-thirds of...

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The civil rights movement is understood to be a popular movement that aimed to secure equal access to basic United States of America (US) citizenship privileges for African Americans. ... Many people from the African American community along with whites participated in the movement at local and national levels. ... King mobilised the African-American community within the movement. ... This organisation expanded and reached African Americans in college. ... It opened up new social, economic and political opportunities for African Americans. ...

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Does it still exist in America? ... For hundreds of years, African-Americans have been discriminated against only because of the color of their skin. ... The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and other constitutional amendments that followed changed the legal status of African-Americans. ... For decades, the absence of adequate laws permitted discrimination against African-Americans in employment, housing, public accommodations, and voting. ... Board of Education that intentional segregation of African-Americans was ruled unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. ...

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Growing up, I only had interest in guys that were African-American. ... It is so much easier dating someone who is African-American because whether you're a light-skin or dark-skin African-American, you still get the same treatment from everyone else who are against interracial relationships. ... The main character Calegero lived in a time where African-Americans and Italians, like himself despised each other. ... Its crazy because some of them were dark-skinned, they didn't want us there just because I'm African American.... In reality, some people may think its better for peo...

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America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... Free African-Americans and the antislavery movement became a contradiction to their racial ideologies. ... Explanations for advanced social systems in Africa were predicated on the belief of Caucasian mixture in the aristocratic or ruling elements. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ... The majority of slave owners believed that Africans were a separate species from the "white" men. ...

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With a african american president, the question still comes up over whether race matters or not. ... When Obama did his campaigns on television, it took away the stereotype that people have over African American Families (CNN). ... African American youths arrested for drug possession are 48 more times likely to have harsher sentences than caucasian youths for the same crime (Abagond). African Americans and Latinos are more likely to be stopped and have their car searched, (that face surprised me, since that is something i have experienced, just from eating a salad in my car at night). Then ...

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The video also had clips of groups of African-American men making stereotypical remarks toward the white-Americans. ... But I never realized that the African-Americans of today still feel now, the way the African-Americans of that time felt towards the white-Americans. ... He also made fun of African-Americans and their "Ebonics." ... Next, I saw pictures and videos on African-Americans and how they were discriminated against. ... There were also many African-American pioneers of Industrial Revolution in America. ...

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Unfortunately, for African Americans these jobs were limited to whites only. ... In fact, during this time period African Americans labored hard in the fields. ... African Americans then joined their leadership councils. ... This plan was a huge set back to the African American community and they"re right to vote. ... Alabama had a similar outcome with the registered African American voters. ...

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One idea behind affirmative action is that it compensates for the huge disadvantage African American people have in America, which is that their entire culture is rooted in slavery and for most of their history here, they did not have basic rights. ... Meanwhile, 12 African-Americans in the same range of qualifications applied for admission and all 12 were admitted" (Grutter 382). In this situation, it seems that the upside" of being African American appeared to outweigh the "plus " of being Hispanic. ... As Gary Becker, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, puts it, "I am not...

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Huck's father, Pap, is a deliberate racist who, in contrast to his son, imagines African-Americans are beneath him. ... Post-era Mark Twain; hatred continued to surround African-Americans, yet a promising future seemed achievable. African Americans after the war enjoyed many civil liberties that their predecessors could only dream of. ... The case was specifically held as another battle of racism towards African-Americans. ... This was a period of creativity and prosperity for African-Americans. ...

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Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. ... But how much has African American life changed since then? ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included the right of African Americans to vote. ... African Americans earn the lowest annual income among racial groups in the United States today. ... These are just a few examples that display the social inequalities in regard to African Americans. ...

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Recent events which depict this movement are the solutions to the following racial conflicts: apartheid in South Africa, the American civil rights movement, and the treatment of aboriginals in Canada. ... Since they began to emigrate as slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African- Americans have had to struggle for equal rights, both politically and socially, in their own country. ... The white Americans had always been able to keep African-Americans from being allowed the same opportunities as they had, now they saw blacks as threats to their way of life...

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. ... For example, just as Wheatley was brought into slavery from Africa as a child to America, so to Terence was sold into slavery at a young age and brought from Africa to Rome. ... She preserved through being kidnapped from Africa and bought into slavery in America, to become the first African American poet published in the United States. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Phillis Wheatley used double meanings to s...

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