... and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. Arguably, one of the most important components in providing black Americans with the ability to band together and earn their god given rights, were the strong influences of the African American fraternal organization of the Freemasons. These brotherhoods, especially the Black Elks, and their Masonic lodges ... a promise to all fighting for civil rights that all of its brothers and sisters "would do their part by assisting the civil liberties department and leagues" and would band ...

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... to him to be a sign that the day of vengeance was at hand. In the following months he collected a small band of followers, and in August they went into action. Unlike Prosser and Vesey, he began with only a very small band which lessened his chance of betrayal. As they moved from farm to farm, slaughtering the white inhabitants, they were joined by ... ...

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... extremely prominent example would be the "Father of Blues " himself, W.C. Handy. He was not only a talented musician, but he was the first African American to start his own publishing company (Biography of W.C. Handy). He was by no means the only musician or musical influence to come out of the schools. These four territories led themselves to the rising esteem of Blues ... ...

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... a news article on a brutal attack of an African America man named Bird Sims in the town of Chester, South Carolina. According to the article, in August of eighteen seventy-one, a "band of white men broke into the house of Bird Sims, "beat him over the head terribly, and then dragged him out into the yard and shot seven bullets into him ... ...

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... , so he made the fatal decision to attend. At the theater, when everyone knew that Lincoln had entered, the actors stopped acting and the people stood silently in respect. The band began to playHail To The Chief? with many shouts of applause from the audience. Abraham Lincoln walked upstairs to his designated box and stood and bowed to the cheering crowd ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School