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Martin Luther King Jr
1,021 wordsMartin Luther King Jr. is a well-known person in history. He is know for his work in civil rights, and is known for his I Have a Dream Speech. King's speech not only change history for the black community it gave hope to black through out the world. King's speech was so successful because he was able to arouse his audience to their feet and get them mad at society. In his speech, he uses different types of language. One type is from Burk and Burk called charging of language. This is using strong...
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Harriet Tubman Emancipation Proclamation
486 wordsSlavery was the most common form of forced labor in History. Slavery was very bad and wrong. A slave was treated like property and not like a Human Being and owned by other Human Being's. There were important people that related to Slavery. These people are the one of the most important people in Slave History. First was Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave. She helped a lot of slaves escape by using the Underground railroad. The Underground railroad was a secret network of people ...
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Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
631 wordsAbraham Lincoln was a man who was best known for standing against the difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, Negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln had many strengths as well as flaws. Lincoln was a self-educated man, who had never had a full year of schooling in his life. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He was born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. In 1816, the Lincolns moved f...
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Booker T Washington Emancipation Proclamation
520 wordsDuring the progressive era in the late 1800 's, white people were in control of society. The blacks had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation, but were not being treated equal. Mainly because they were black. But that was not the only reason. Blacks were also not treated equally because they did not possess the intelligence and skills of whites. A great man decided to fight for equality between blacks and whites. His name was Booker Taliaferro Washington. Booker T. Washington was born i...
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Colored Troops Emancipation Proclamation
1,069 words... the place that was selected as a meeting and a recruiting place was forced to remove the American flag. At another place the owner was told by the police "we want you damned niggers to keep out of this; this is a white man's war. " Frederick Douglass was the most persistent advocate of arming blacks, perhaps the greatest black leader this country has ever had. " Colored men were good enough to fight under Washington. They are not good enough to fight under McClellan. " He further stated; "th...
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Emancipation Proclamation Colored Troops
1,098 words... bsp; It was evident to the Union that they would need more men to join the draft so they could fill the ranks, but the wives of these men did not want their husbands and boyfriends running off to war, just to be killed. President Lincoln realized that more men were needed, but in order to keep the issue of slavery out of the wa, r he did not want to use blacks as soldiers. The war began as an effort to save the Union, and that is how Lincoln wanted it to stay. On the morning of April 12, 186...
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The Civil Rights Movement A Struggle For Justice
2,353 wordsThe Civil Rights Movement: a Struggle for Justice We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. These words, proclaimed in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Independence, defined Americas promise equality and freedom for every one. However, these notions meant nothing in reality for so many African Americans, who were slaves...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
1,537 wordsI Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to the thousands of African Americans who had marched on Washington, D. C. at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The date of the speech was August 28, 1963, but it is one that will live for generations. The purpose of the speech was to convince his audience on several fronts: he sought to persuade the black community to stand up for the rights afforded them under the Constitution, and he a...
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