... she is asking for respect from men and white people. According to author Suzanne Smith, "The lyrics often reflected the exact situation that the activists were confronting at that moment. If they were arrested at a rally, they would often sing the songs in jail to keep their spirits up". Some other popular black musicians were Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and James ... Brown. All these people had a big impact on the cultural change because they proved that not only white people can be good musicians but so can black people. Because of the baby boom after World War II, the ...

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... by Hale, and her gentle, just nature creates a sense of sympathy for the audience to feel. Interestingly, Rebecca Nurse, is the only character to suggest that the people of Salem 'go to G-d for the cause of' Betty's unresponsiveness rather than jumping straight to the subject of witchcraft. She points out that 'there is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits', stating a witch hunt could 'set [them] all to ... great power in her home. She has a wise influence on John, controlling the majority of his actions due to his intense care of her opinion, and is also abl...

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