The History of African-American Music through the Centuries African-American music has influenced modern artists and songs quite heavily‚ but the music itself has developed immensely over the years. Every century has seen innovative genres come to life‚ and you’ll see that African American musicians have contributed tremendously in this. 19th century With the prevalence of slavery and the Second Great Awakening of the 1830s‚ African Americans created spirituals and work songs to ease their pains
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hindsight‚ it is easy to reflect on the treatment and portrayal of African-Americans in the contextual fruition of live entertainment in the United States. Dating back to the later half to the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century‚ ethnic representation in musical theater underwent a gradual change paralleling a shift in societal opinion toward racial equality. Though by today’s standards‚ its depiction of African-Americans may seem archaic at best‚ Show Boat changed the way audiences viewed
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United States went through social changes that changed the life of many African-Americans‚ immigrants‚ and women. These changes included more rights and jobs to many different men and women in America that would help change America into what it is today. At the time of World War I‚ Many whites were recruited in the military and sent to Europe. The result was a demand for workers in all types of jobs. Many African-Americans facing a plight in the south because of drought‚ loss of jobs‚ and racial
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wrote motivational speeches and literary narratives. These expositions promptly exposed and articulated the inhumane oppression inflicted on the African American race. “Under God’s guidance in this great democracy‚ we are rising out of the darkness of slavery into the light of freedom.” - Mary McLeod Bethune. Throughout the early 19th century‚ African Americans were not given freedom whatsoever‚ regardless of the situation. “We have helped to build America with our labor‚ strengthened
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African American Athletes in the 20th Century The world of sports wasn’t always the fun and games that we see today. In the 21st century the world of sports is decorated with many talented African American athletes from soccer‚ to hockey‚ to basketball‚ to baseball. African American athletes in the 20th century had to fight through the race barrier and face up against unbeatable odds to be able to do what they love. Jackie Robinson‚ Jack Johnson‚ and Jesse Owens are all African American athletes
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“African Americans of all ages are more likely to be the victims of serious violent crime than non-Hispanic whites (“African American Communities and Mental Health”). Frequent violence is a direct cause of PTSD‚ one of the most prevalent mental illnesses in the black community‚ second only to depression (“African American Communities and Mental Health”). Due to the lack of understanding of mental illness and a similarly destitute lack of treatment options‚ African Americans are left to
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The Plight of African-American Males Staheen Murray Empire State College College Writing Lisa Mastrangelo April 20‚ 2011 The issue amongst this group is the dropout rate that has affected this group in epidemic proportions. Due to oppression discrimination and racism the African American in America is still struggling for meritocracy today. With the of lack of education‚ poverty and imprisonment‚ the Black male is now being considered an endangered species. With
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Breast Cancer Is Most Aggressive in African American Women Breast cancer is the second leading cause of deaths in American women‚ with lung cancer being the first. It is the most common cancer in women not including non-melanoma skin cancers. Breast cancer is a group of related diseases in which cells in the breast‚ most commonly in the lining of the milk ducts or milk producing glands become abnormal and divide without control or order as a normal cell would. When cancer cells break away from the
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For many African Americans‚ the war offered an opportunity to get out of the cycle of crushing rural poverty. Black joined the military in large numbers‚ escaping a decade of Depression and tenant farming in the South and Midwest. Yet‚ like the rest of America in the 1940s‚ the armed forces were segregated. The Army accepted black enlistees but created separate black infantry regiments and assigned white commanders to them. Of the more than 2.5 million African Americans who registered for the draft
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consequence of African-Americans seeking after vocations in expressions of the human experience taking after the United States common war. As slaves African-Americans has learned couple of European social conventions. With more opportunity to seek after vocations in expressions of the human experience and conveying African imaginative customs to their work‚ African-Americans changed music and move‚ in the U.S.‚ as well as everywhere throughout the world. For after the war‚ African American artists and
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