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History
We typically think that the Civil Rights Movement started with Rosa Parks in late 1955. While this is true in many ways, we should not ignore the fact that there were important changes between the...
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African Americans
Alain Locke's main idea in his essay "The New Negro" is that the Old Negro associated with plantation slavery and the bourgeois leadership of black intellectuals had been replaced in the early 20th...
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African Americans
The question of whether or not African-Americans have a unique, distinct, and identifiable culture is controversial. Some scholars theorize an Afrocentric theory of culture. Dr. Molefi K. Asante,...
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History
Over the course of the last four centuries or so, African Americans as a group (if we can truly lump all African Americans into one huge group) have had to endure a long process that has led to...
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History
Of course, the ancestors of the African Americans (or at least some of them) came from the continent of Africa. (I say “at least some of them” because many African Americans today have...
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Social Sciences
[Please note that eNotes does not write student assignments. Your Question was edited to the form of one question to accord with this policy.] Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of...
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History
With respect to African American history, the Reconstruction amendments represent a great accomplishment and a great promise, but one that was not kept for decades. There were three Reconstruction...
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History
With respect to African American history, the Compromise of 1877 represents how, once again, the rights and interests of African Americans have been ignored by whites when that has been convenient....
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Slavery
Harriet Tubman represents the idea that African Americans (and, in her case, African American women in particular) were willing to fight back against the system of slavery with everything they had....
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African Americans
The Dred Scott decision (from a case formally known as Dred Scott v. Sandford), represents the depths of injustice that have been inflicted upon African Americans using the American legal system....
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History
In African American history, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 represents two different things. First, it represents the fact that African Americans could not, historically speaking, count on being...
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History
First of all, we should note that the struggle for civil rights for African Americans is, for the most part, over. African Americans have all the same rights as other Americans. The real struggle...
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History
Paul Cuffee is important in African American history as a supporter of the “colonization” movement. Paul Cuffee lived from 1759 to 1817. He was born into poverty (though not into slavery, as...
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History
Richard Allen is an important figure in the religious history of the African American community. It was Allen who founded the African Methodist Episcopalian (AME) church, which became one of the...
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African Americans
The Civil War and Reconstruction clearly changed life for African Americans. However, just as clearly, those events did not change African Americans’ lives fundamentally enough to bring them...
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African Americans
There are two ways in which African Americans have generally benefitted from mutual aid. However, neither of them can be explained in any quantifiable way. You cannot provide statistics that...
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African Americans
When we talk about mutual aid, we are usually talking about organizations that are set up to provide assistance to one another. Mutual aid societies typically do things like collecting money from...
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African Americans
I assume that you are talking about the Dunbar Hotel in Los Angeles. This was a hotel built in 1928 in LA by an African American who was the first black person to graduate from the dental school...
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African Americans
First, one note about phrasing. The Civil War could not literally provide mutual aid to African Americans. This is because mutual aid is something can only be provided by people within the same...
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African Americans
It may actually be more accurate to say that the church was the institution, rather than “an institution,” that provided African Americans with mutual support and a “comfortable place” in...
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Harlem Renaissance
One effect of the Harlem Renaissance was to help illuminate the discourse concerning race and ethnicity in America. With about a half a century having passed since the end of the Civil War, there...
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African Americans
One psychological problems African-Americans face is the stereotype threat. The stereotype threat is the anxiety and pressure that African-Americans and other racial minorities feel when they...
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African Americans
The main thing that these two horrific incidents show is that African Americans have historically had good reason to distrust doctors and the medical community. The fact that something like the...
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African Americans
One particular reason why African- Americans found the time period of Progressivism especially challenging was because so much of the goals of the era applied to their own predicament. Naturally,...
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African Americans
Several genres of music are associated with African-American culture. The first major genre is the spiritual, a type of religious music that fuses African rhythms and African American themes with...
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African Americans
Malcolm X's purpose in going to Mecca was as much spiritual as it was political. After his well- publicized split with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm was searching for meaning, a way in which to...
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History
The ways in which these two groups were treated was very different because of the differences in the relationships between each group and the dominant white majority. Native Americans were not a...
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African Americans
If we really are talking about the late 19thcentury and not the late 20th, A is not the correct answer. Instead, the best answer is B. The late 19th century was not a time of improvement for...
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African Americans
The major difference between these two men was their attitude (at least until late in Malcolm X’s life) towards white people and integration. King believed that all people are brothers and...
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African Americans
African Americans were not enslaved during Reconstruction. However, they were not truly free in most times and places because they lacked economic power and political equality. Of course, African...
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African Americans
While African Americans were technically free during this time, there were many ways in which they were not truly free. Of course, African Americans were not enslaved during Reconstruction. During...
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History
Looking at the Americas as a whole, African immigrants have had a huge impact. Some countries, like Jamaica, are populated almost exclusively by descendants of African immigrants. This has...
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African Americans
African Americans have worked to accomplish these goals in a number of ways. Among the most important of these are: Litigation. This was the most important part of the early strategy of African...
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Great Depression and New Deal
In the New Deal, African Americans were discriminated against to a great extent. For political reasons, the Roosevelt administration allowed the Southern states to run the New Deal programs in...
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African Americans
First of all, we should remember that for most of the "mid-1800s" (however one defines this) African Americans in the South were mostly enslaved rather than simply suffering discrimination....
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African Americans
During this time, African Americans faced many obstacles. These obstacles started to arise during Reconstruction. At that point, many whites in the South were trying to get rid of the...
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History
African Americans gained political power during this time in a number of ways. Let us examine two of the most important of these ways. First, this was a time in which more "majority-minority"...
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History
There are many ways in which African Americans have done this. Let us look at three of them. They have used legal action. The most famous victory achieved by African Americans in this regard was...
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African Americans
The reason that African Americans were mostly Republican before the New Deal goes back to the Civil War and its aftermath. President Lincoln who, of course, issued the Emancipation Proclamation...
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African Americans
I assume that you are asking about Ira Berlin's four passages from his book The Making of African America. If so, the four passages are: The Middle Passage or Transatlantic Passage. Here, slaves...
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African Americans
The experiences of most African Americans during this time were fairly negative. This is not true for all African Americans at all times and places. For example, there was the famous Harlem...
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African Americans
I see one major problem with this statement. The problem is that it is hard to say that there was "development of blacks' rights" starting in the late 1700s. Many African Americans did resist...
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African Americans
There are several methodological issues with analyzing the question. The first is the definition of African American that becomes increasingly problematic as assimilation increases. Increasing...
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African Americans
This is a hugely complex question with a complex answer that cannot be adequately addressed in a space this size. The general answer is that different African Americans and different groups of...
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African Americans
The most important short-term result of this movement was the "Harlem Renaissance." As African Americans moved North, they created black communities in many Northern cities. In these communities,...
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African Americans
Any migration of people tends to result from both "push" factors that make them want to leave the place where they are and "pull" factors that attract them to a particular destination. In WWI, the...
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African Americans
What you have to realize here is that this covers a great deal of time in which conditions changed tremendously for African Americans. At the beginning of this time, segregation was in effect all...
