... no longer flown above the state house in South Carolina after a successful boycott of that state. Leaders of the NAACP had vowed to boycott all businesses in South Carolina until the flag was removed. The flag is also no longer a part of the Georgia state flag (see figure 6). In ... that Blacks did serve as non-combatants, soldiers and sailors for the Confederacy. Some of the Blacks were freemen, but most were slaves. The free Blacks fought because some actually owned slaves themselves, while others were prominent in the south as businessmen, lawyers and doctors who . Slaves, on the ......

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• Grade Level: High School

... whites who sympathized with blacks, many were infuriated by the "Negros" defiance to segregation. The boycott cost many bus drivers their jobs, forced many businesses to close, and increased already hostile relations between blacks and whites. Whites who supported black citizens were where treated harshly by their own. For instance ... injured some were require to stay in the hospital. The most deadliest attack was the bombings of Martin Luther King Jr's and E.D. Nixon's home, fortunately no one was injured. Jo Ann Robinson tell us that two white police officers threw a brick through her ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... After World War I, unemployment and inflation sky rocketed. The Army discharged six hundred thousand soldiers still in training camps and Navy brought AEF soldiers home from France. The soldiers were hustled back into civilian life. This now created thousands of men with families jobless. Women who did have jobs ... soldiers. The cost of goods such as food and clothing more than doubled over prewar rates. African Americans thought that their contribution to fighting and home fronts would get them better treatment. They soon found out that nobody was too eager to offer them that. Race ri...

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... so great in the New South that it increased the number of labor fivefold and consumption of cotton eightfold. Unfortunately, for African Americans these jobs were limited to whites only. Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks ... not occur. The men had armed themselves and prevented their own deaths. Wells, feeling quiet strong about the matter comments, "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for t...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School