... show the cruelty and disrespect the victims are faced with. Four Little Girls, a documentary directed by Spike Lee, is an example of this. He interviews those that were involved or held knowledge of the bombing at 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He speaks with officials and professionals, preachers, family members and childhood friends of the four girls ... used to make political points. The existence of the steel mills, industry, and foundries, made accessibility to dynamite quite efficient and easy. When black families began to build substantial homes on a hill...

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From 1865 - 1900, most of America was at war with one another for equality. African Americans were still being held captive by whites, Native American land was still being taken away, and women continued to be suppressed. Things would, however, begin to change. African Americans, Native Americans, and women would ... reconstruction governments and local leaders. (Faragher, et al, p. 335). In October 1870, after republicans carried Laurens County in South Carolina, bands of white people drove 150 African Americans from their homes and murdered thirteen black and white Republican activists. I...

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... . A law was then passed called the Freeman's Bureau. It was established on March 3, 1865. The plan was to improve the former slave's lives. It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. The Freeman's Bureau spent around $17,000,000 to build houses, hospitals, and schools for the slaves. A few years later Congress tried to give more power to the Freeman's Bureau ... the election of 1866 there became more Radical Republicans in Congress. In the following year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was divided into military districts. Elections were held in each state with blac...

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... . A law was then passed called the Freeman's Bureau. It was established on March 3, 1865. The plan was to improve the former slave's lives. It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. The Freeman's Bureau spent around $17,000,000 to build houses, hospitals, and schools for the slaves. A few years later Congress tried to give more power to the Freeman's Bureau ... the election of 1866 there became more Radical Republicans in Congress. In the following year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was divided into military districts. Elections were held in each state with blac...

• Word Count: 858
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• Grade Level: High School