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The Great Depression was an economical depression in the 1930s. This depression lasted ten years and greatly impacted the lives of Americans. The date Tuesday, October 29, 1929 has been known as Black Tuesday. On this day, the stock market crashed, causing the beginning of the Great Depression. This crash lost millions of investors’ money and the unemployment rate of America increased drastically. Although Black Tuesday is not the only cause of the Great Depression, it was one of the major causes…
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Losing the right to vote. The end of Reconstruction did not mean an end to African‐American political influence in the South. Blacks continued to serve in several state legislatures as late as 1900 and were even elected to Congress after 1877, albeit from all‐black districts. However, a change took place in the 1890s as attitudes about race became more strongly felt and the prospect of an electoral alliance between poor whites and blacks that could threaten the power structure became a possibility…
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Harlem Renaissance Between the end of world war 1(1917) and the start of the great depression and the years leading up to the world war 2 (1930s),African Americans engaged in a thriving period of cross- disciplinary artistic and cultural activity known as the harlem renaissance.I feel like the harlem renaissance is interesting because it talks about the black culture which I find really cool and it kind of relates to the jazz age which also interest me as well. Background In the 1920s and 1930s,…
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African American works of literature. A few that will be discussed thoroughly in this paper, that are majorly common in these types of works are: the idea of double consciousness, the question and search for identity, the Sankofa experience, the Great Migration, and lastly the return to the South. These tropes may seem very different but they all tie into the question of identity and the struggle that African Americans faced and still to this day face due to slavery. It is important to read works of…
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Tricia McCullers End of chapter question Chapter 12-20 1 . What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction? Reconstruction brought important social changes to former slaves. Families that had been separated before and during the Civil War were reunited, and slave marriages were formalized through legally recognized ceremonies. Families also took advantage of the schools established by the Freedmen's Bureau and the expansion of public education, albeit segregated…
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attitude resulted in both a war with Mexico, and the simultaneous acquisition of vast new territories. The Civil War, however, shattered the United States. When the war was finally over, and reconstruction began, there were many questions left. People did not know what rights to give the newly freed slaves, if any. In the North, people wanted blacks to be citizens with full rights. In the South however, groups such as the KKK, the Knights of the White Camellia, and others, used terrorism to prevent blacks…
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labor force) Americas to Europe (raw materials) Europe to West Africa (finished goods guns & weapons) West Africa *Ghana, Mali, Songhay Empires, *Trans-Saharan Trade *Diversity: ethnicity & Religion Transatlantic slave trade *FORCED MIGRATION *5 MAJOR STEPS 12.5 MILLION PEOPLE March to the Coast Europeans set up forts on West African coasts Krumen: AFRICANS WHO AIDED IN THE CAPTURE AND TRANSPORT *Conditions- shackles, resistance, 25% dont make it Slave Fort *Wait for ships…
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Equality For many centuries African American’s have been treated as if they were lower class citizens and treated as so. It has taken them many years and help from some amazing people to rise above it all. After the many centuries of segregation and ill treatment, African Americans have been able to overcome and have become more respected in society today. This is a wonderful outcome of what is known as the Civil Rights Movement. In 1865, America had many major changes that needed…
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April 18, 2011 The system of Apartheid was a politically engineered system instituted in 1948 within South Africa by the National Party that was aimed to ensure absolute white domination in all aspects of society. Under this new era of racial segregation, numerous legislative acts were passed to supplement the idea of Apartheid and thus favor the white population and disadvantageous to those of color. Therefore, the doctrine of apartheid essentially crushed the black South Africans’ civil liberties…
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Panther chapters outside the state.”In October of 1967, the police arrest the Defense Minister of the Panthers, Huey Newton, for killing an Oakland cop. Panther Eldridge Cleaver begins the movement to "Free Huey", a struggle the Panthers would devote a great deal of their attention to in the coming years, while the party spreads its roots further into the political spectrum, forming coalitions with various revolutionary parties. “Stokely Carmichael,the former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…
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