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    DISCUSSION 1 WASHINGTON & DUBOIS PART 1: QUESTION: We will begin our discussion concerning race relations during the historical period now called Reconstruction – this is the time period after the Civil War. As African Americans tried to combat racism and avoid racial conflict‚ they clashed over strategies of accommodation and resistance. The Southern educator‚ author and civil rights leader‚ Booker T. Washington urged

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    In the 1950s and 1960s there lived the idea “Separate but Equal”. This idea made it seem like it was just to segregate african americans from the rest of the U.S. The blacks used to idea of non-violence to solve this problem‚ even though the whites only used Violence and bullets. One of the first non-violent acts carried out by the African Americans was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was caused because there was heavy segregation on buses‚ where all blacks had to sit at the back the whole time

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    different because if they did they risked losing friends and being accused of being an enemy of the country. The source of the conformity and the fear came from the government trying to rush the American people into the cold war and against the communists is portrayed in the words of J. Edgar Hoover‚ "Every American Communist was‚ and is‚ potentially an espionage agent of the Soviet Union." The typical family in the fifties is usually known as a nuclear family or traditional family. A nuclear family is

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    I heard the gunshot‚ the race had begun I had a good start. I was in the top 30 and pushing top 20. This was not an ordinary race it had some 300 kids running in the race. I was nervous because of all the big teams there. It was 11:00 a.m. 30 minutes till the race. Everyone was doing the warm up stretches as a team. I was nervous because of how many kids there were at the meet. The time till the race felt like forever because of all the big names there from all over the state. It was time 2

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    Europeans into North America had considerable impacts on Native American lives. Suddenly‚ North American natives found themselves entangled by European power politics. European empires at the time‚ such as the French‚ English and Spanish empires‚ often fought against each other for power and control. The arrival of Europeans into the North American continent meant new political relationships for both the Europeans and the Native Americans. Both sides had something to gain out the relationship such as

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    Britain’s relations with the American colonies was destined to collapse‚ since the British lacked much respect for the colonies and the unequal mistreatment. During the French and Indian war their relationship altered drastically politically‚ economically‚ and ideologically. This war would soon lead to the American colonies revolting against Britain. Since the start of the war the Americans were eager to help Britain in winning the war‚ the Americans believed by doing this they would get respect

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    and Indian relations as being between just two very different groups of people‚ it is important to recognize this is not entirely true. Although the settlers of the new world are singularly referred to as Europeans‚ each group of people came from a different nation and with different motives and expectations of the new world. Similarly‚ the Indians were neither a united group nor necessarily friendly with each other. Due to the complexity and diversity of these groups of people‚ relations between the

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    The relation between the early colonists and Native-American Indians through American settlers and Native-Americans changed so drastically due to many tragic factors. Although the biggest factor would have to be that the settlers saw the Native-Americans as savages and felt that they needed to alter their cultural ways to the European ways. The Sand Creek massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn were two events that greatly affected the relations among the settlers and the Native Americans. These

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    Desirae Jackson American history throughout the years shows the struggle that some citizens had to endure. When the Civil War ended African Americans were no longer slaves‚ but they were not equal either. African Americans still faced discrimination because they were Black people. This essay will explain how and why African Americans attacked segregation in American society in the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1950s and 1960s African Americans communities made public announcements

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    In the 1800 there was terrorism against african americans they got lynched‚ raped‚ and got there homes set on fire. Many rural blacks at this time lived under a sharecropping system(you give half of your crops to the owner of the land). But at least it was a little better than slavery at least they were free. Over the next 20 years‚ blacks would lose almost all they got the right from the civil war by the jim crow laws. Jim Crow was a slang term for a black man. Any state law passed in the south

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