Throughout O'Connor's work she explains and shows you as the reader what it was like to live in the post World War II South. ... During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas" (Segregation, Freedom's Story, TeacherServe). ... There were a lot of movements going on post World War II like the Civil Rights Act from 1946-1953. According to The Civil Rights Postwar Era "WWII had brought about irrevocable change.  ... The share of defense jobs held by blacks had increased from 3 to 8 percent" (Civil Rights Post World War ...

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At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... Some of the most heinous innovations of the Jim Crow era sprang from the "Negro voting problem." ... Then came the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century. ... From this era sprang the circumstances under which the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was born. ... Abraham Lincoln brought the nation out of civil war; Booker T. ...

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First, let us look at the history of the first era of African American music, "Slave music (1600s -1860s)." ... A civil war broke out in America and when it was over the slaves were free; the slave community had just become the black community. ... The next era of African American music was called, "Classical African American Music (1860s -1950s)." During the 1860's, before the Civil War, but after the birth of Negro Spirituals, a new type of slave song appeared in the South. ... The Blues was more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular in the South. ...

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Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... A black middle class had developed following the American Civil War (1861-1865), increasing education and employment opportunities with a new sense of racial pride (Collier, 1985). During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunitie...

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However, to see freedom, a civil war, in which many African-Americans died, had to be fought. ... Today, in the so-called era of colorblindness, in the era of Obama, a new caste system has emerged in the form of mass incarceration. ... In October 1982, Reagan announced the War on Drugs. ... To justify the War on Drugs, the Reagan administration launched a media offensive. ... However, we chose the path of war. ...

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Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. ... At this time, many of the federal civil rights legislations were passed and America went into the Reconstruction Era. ...

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During the Civil Rights Era, racial profiling was a major issue, thousands of black Americans were unnecessarily stopped and arrested based on their skin color alone. ... The war on drugs has given police a license to target those people who they believe fit the "profile" of a drug dealer or a gang member. ... From the outset of the "war on drugs," minorities have been targeted. ...

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The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... Ill just touch up on Martin Luther King's historic moments because to speak on him would be the entire paper and I would like to cover multiple monumental moments of this era. ...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance...

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The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or destroy slavery,9" therefore demonstrating that he was not committed to the equality of African-Americans in the "de facto" sense. ... I most agree with Ward who stated "although slavery is buried...Jim Crow is very much alive...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

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After the Civil War and the Emancipation Declaration which abolished slavery, everything at first seemed to change. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... Like his father he became a "social activist pastor" joining the NAACP and the Alabama Council on Human Relations, and also became very popular in the black community because of his skills. go to top The Civil Rights Movement After decades of being treated as inferior human beings who were confronted daily with discrimination the decision of the US Supreme Court that segregation in pu...

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Also we shall look at his famous "I Have A Dream" speech held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which along with Winston Churchill's "We Shall Never Surrender" speech during World War II, would become one of the most prominent speeches of the 20th century. ... It was from here that Martin Luther King, Jr, would gradually shed the position of quiet observer and become the leader of a people who were in desperate need of someone who could lead them together into a new era of equal opportunity and equal rights. ...

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