... the bus lines. Blacks would have to sit in the back of the bus while whites got to sit in the front of the bus. The writer for "World Book Encyclopedia" states, "King's civil rights activities began with a protest of Montgomery's segregated bus system in 1955. That year, a black passenger named Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a city law requiring that ... how the whites "hate" the blacks and proves to him that blacks are definitely not treated equal as others are. Works Cited Garrow, David J. "Martin Luther, Jr. King." World Book Encyclopedia. New York World Book, 2002. 17 Mar. 2...

• Word Count: 1860
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... as laborers. They would receive less pay than a white soldier would. Instead of $13 plus clothing expenses, they would only receive $10 without clothing expenses (The American Civil War: A Multicultural Encyclopedia 55). When word of African Americans enlisting in the Union Army got out, the Confederate Army lashed out many threats. They warned that Union officers recruiting and arming slaves were ... April 1864. Finally, three months later, "pressured by public opinion and encouraged by many white officers of these black troops Congress enacted equal pay legislation" (The American Civi...

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... felt protection, because his people "The Negroes" surrounded him as he pointed out in his works. Unfortunately, he watched Harlem decline with the beginning of the Great Depression. (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000) He saw Harlem turn into a place to be feared by many. The Great Depression marked the end of the Harlem Renaissance. Thousands of people were out of their jobs ... easy to tell that Langston Hughes was a dreamer. He dreamed of equality, he dreamed of peace, and most of all he dreamed of changes. On his poem "Harlem"(Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000) which is dedicated...

• Word Count: 1984
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... Case quickly draws national news coverage, and Jake doesn't realize it yet but he is in way over his head. Jake has the help of his good friend ,divorce lawyer, Harry Rex, and the help of his old mentor, Lucien. He also has the help of a young ALCU member who is a law Student at Ole Miss named Ellen Roark. During the ... ...

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... Ickes, planned to stimulate the economy with government money starting with the poor and working it's way up, but it failed. Then there was the Works Project Administration, headed by Harry Hopkins, that tried helping people by putting them to work. Thousands of projects they built are still here today, such as Turner Falls, Taft Stadium, and Bricktown. These establishments are ... ...

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... is still Japanese. Giving him a scrap of paper won't change him. I don't care what they do with a Jap as long as they don't send them back here. A Jap is a Jap"(Harry Kitano pg.46) On February 19,1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 for massive evacuation of Japanese Americans. Six days later on February 25,1942 the evacuation started ... ...

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... Pictures signed James B. Lowe, a handsome black actor, for the lead role in the Universal Pictures production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lowe was chosen to play the part because film director Harry Pollard, a former blackface actor, believed he "fit in with the realistic demands of the times-(Bogle, 6) Tom was to be followed by the coon, although he remained the cinematic Negro ... ...

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... preferential treatments to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting." Justice Harry Blackmun stated that "In order to get beyond racism we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat someone equally, we must ... ...

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... government was forced to put black troops into combat. The African American units preformed with distinction. After World War II, the modern civil rights movement began to take shape. President Harry Truman, who succeeded Roosevelt following his death in 1945, was more supportive of the fight for racial equality than any president before him. Another culturally significant event took place in ... ...

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... 2 The Booker T. Washington Papers 3 Up From Slavery 4 W.E.B. DuBois-Biography of a Race 5 Analysis of the Clash Over the Issues Between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois 6 The Correspondence of W.E.B. DuBois 7 The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 8 The American Pageant 9 Critical Essays on W.E.B. DuBois 10 The American Pageant 11 Up From Slavery 12 Dusk of Dawn 13 The American Pageant 14 Analysis of the Clash Over the ... ...

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... , John Brown, Quest of the Silver Fleece, The Negro, Dark Water, The Gift of Black Folks, Dark Princess, Black Folk then and Now, Dusk of Dawn, Color and Democracy, The Encyclopedia of the Negro and his Autobiography, Words of Color. I received my information from some of the above titles and these listings;...

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... with it left Harlem or stopped writing, while new young artists who appeared in the 1930s and 1940s never associated with the movement. ("Hughes, Langston," Microsoft ® Encarta ® Online Encyclopedia 2002 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.) Hughes writes about African-American people all over the world. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers- (this is ... ...

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... her beliefs and equality. She told people that God was only looking for people who show love and concern for others and this is why she must continue to preach (Encyclopedia, 474). Isabella was one of 13 children from slave parents and she could only speak Dutch. She lived with her parents until the time she was 11then she was sent ... ...

• Word Count: 1935
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... Department (Hynes). In 1961, DuBois moved to Ghana, as an act of defiance, and joined the American Communist Party. At the age of ninety-three, DuBois began work on the Encyclopedia Africana, a work on Africans and people of African decent throughout the world (W.E.B.). DuBois's passport expired in 1963 and he applied to have it renewed, but was denied by the U.S. government ... ...

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