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World War 2 Masters Degree
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South African Government Nelson Mandela
638 wordsNelson Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994. He is the country's first black president. He was elected by the country's National Assembly. The Assembly had been chosen in South Africa's first elections in which the country's blacks were allowed to vote. Blacks won a majority of the Assembly seats, and the Assembly selected Mandela as president. These developments marked the beginning of a new era in South Africa. They resulted in blacks gaining control of the government after a long ...
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380 wordsNelson Mandela has played an important and controversial role in the history of South Africa and establishing South Africa as a Democratic country. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Umtata, in the Transfer territory of South Africa. His Mandela became a lawyer and, in 1944, joined the African National Congress (ANC). Mandela gain national importance as a black leader for protest against the government and apartheid which occurred in the 1950 's. In 1956, Mandela was arrested and charged with...
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Nobel Peace Prize South African Government
1,052 wordsNelson Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994. He is the country's first black president. He was elected by the country's National Assembly. The Assembly had been chosen in South Africa's first elections in which the country's blacks were allowed to vote. Blacks won a majority of the Assembly seats, and the Assembly selected Mandela as president. These developments marked the beginning of a new era in South Africa. They resulted in blacks gaining control of the government after a long ...
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Major League Baseball Simon And Schuster
1,135 wordsIn 1947 Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and was the first black to do so. Before that there were separate leagues. Segregation was a big issue and Jackie made it even bigger by calling for it to stop and letting every one have a chance to show their talent. He led the path for a less difficult life for blacks, but that path had hate, misery, and pain as obstacles and only a special person like Robinson could overcome those obstacles. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January...
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Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
975 wordsJack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia and was the youngest of five children. He had a grandfather that was a slave, Jackie's dad was a sharecropper and Male, Jackie's mother, was a maid. His dad ran away from the family when Jackie was only an infant. Jackie fought racism in his California childhood, at collage and throughout his whole life. During his childhood at California he was always picked on at school. Kids taunted him so much and so badly that ...
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The Evolution Of Black Actresses In American Film
1,783 wordsThere is a rich history in American film. There is one group of people that were many times overlooked for their great attributes to American film: the Black actors. There were many aspiring black actors. Unfortunately, as in most things in the past, they did not have the same opportunities as other mainstream Hollywood actors. They were only allowed to be coons, tragic mulatto's, mammies, and the servants. Even with those roles, they were never allowed to be the leading lady. There are many asp...
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1,180 wordsBooker T. Washington was the first African American whose likeness appeared on a United States postage stamp. Washington also was thus honored a quarter century after his death. In 1946 he also became the first black with his image on a coin, a 50 -cent piece. The Tuskegee Institute, which Washington started at the age of 25, was the where the 10 -cent stamps first were available. The educators monument on its campus shows him lifting a symbolic veil from the head of a freed slave. Booker Taliaf...
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Toni Morrison Nobel Prize
1,843 wordsToni Morrison, the first black woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, U. S. A. She was the second of four children of George Wofford, a shipyard welder and Ramah Willis Wofford. Her parents moved to Ohio from the South to escape racism and to find better opportunities in the North. Her father was a hardworking and dignified man. While the children were growing up, he worked three jobs at the same time for almost 17 years. ...
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Major League Baseball World War Ii
2,017 wordsDesegregation in Major League Baseball? We are the Ship, All Else the Sea? -Negro National League motto Barely two years after the end of the Civil War? a war that was fought, in part, over the enslaving of black Americans- the first baseball teams compromised entirely of black players stepped up to the plate in Brooklyn, New York. The Philadelphia Excelsior's defeated the home team, the Brooklyn Uniques, in a contest that was billed as? the championship of colored clubs? (Dungee 7). Black Ameri...
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2,342 wordsThroughout his life Ralph Bunche worked to improve race relations and further the cause of civil rights. For 22 years he served on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, earning its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in 1949. He participated in several civil rights demonstrations, including the 1963 March on Washington. That same year, U. S. President John F. Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian award. Sojourner Truth, Ameri...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya And Bailey
2,461 wordsChris Coreypg. 1 I know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1) Setting? I? : Stamps, Arkansas, in a black ghetto neighborhood where Maya lives with her grandmother and paralyzed uncle St. Louis, San Francisco, a junkyard, and Southern California; A brief incident takes place across the border in Mexico starting from 1930? s to mid-late 1900? s, she was born in 1928 2) Character? I? 1: Primary Characters Maya? a black girl with nappy black hair, broad feet, and a space between her teeth; the narrator of the...
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2,998 wordsMaya Angelou has touched the hearts of many with her shocking and inspirational autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and has amazed many with her provocative and eccentric life style. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis to Mr. Bailey and Mrs. Vivian Baxter Johnson. Sadly, at the age of three, her parents divorced and Marguerite and her brother, Bailey Jr. , who nicknamed her Maya, were sent to live with their father s mother. Thus began the roller c...
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2,478 wordsI know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1) Setting " I" : Stamps, Arkansas, in a black ghetto neighborhood where Maya lives with her grandmother and paralyzed uncle St. Louis, San Francisco, a junkyard, and Southern California; A brief incident takes place across the border in Mexico starting from 1930? s to mid-late 1900? s, she was born in 1928 2) Character " I" 1: Primary Characters Maya? a black girl with nappy black hair, broad feet, and a space between her teeth; the narrator o...
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Civil Rights First Black
496 wordsThe Great One He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and the true American champion. Ronald Reason. I don t know if anyone could have summarized his life better. Jackie was a great influence to the American public. To over came diversity and succeed is a great accomplishment. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, January 31 1919. He went to college at the University of UCLA. Where he was a star ...
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1,039 wordsJackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier April 15, 1946 was an important event in not only baseball history but also in the history of America. Thousands of baseball fans crowded into Ebbits Field to see one man, the first black ever to play in Major League Baseball, and one man who would eventually put an end to segregation in baseball. That one man s name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson, otherwise known as Jackie Robinson. His struggle to break the color barrier helped set the standards for futu...
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World War Ii Jackie Robinson
943 wordsJack Roosevelt Robinson was born the grandson of a slave on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. His parents Jerry and Male Robinson were a plantation laborer and a housekeeper. Robinson was the youngest of 5 children, and at the age of 6 months, his father Jerry, abandoned the family, leaving his mother with a huge responsibility. Robinson and his family were moved to California with their mother so she could search for work. At the time, California was a place where segregation existed, but wa...
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South Africa De Klerk
641 wordsMandela was born July 19, 1918, in Umtata. He was imprisoned from 1964 until 1990; he is a symbol of black South Africans against segregation and the white minority rule in South Africa. In 1944 he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and became the co-founder of the Anc's Youth League. Mandela became a big time activist for blacks, when sixty- nine blacks were killed in a demonstration in 1961. That same year he became the head of a militant underground protest movement. In 1962, he was a...
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Civil Rights Movement Raisin In The Sun
1,572 wordsLorraine Hansberry rejected the limitations of her race and gender and through her written works, became a social activist and expanded the role of a black woman in America. Lorraine Hansberry wrote many works that allowed her to explain her views. She also explored these ideas through playwrights. Lorraine Hansberry was said to be a spearhead of the future. She was a woman who refused to be confined by the categories of race and gender (Tripp 3). Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930. Both of her...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar True Feelings
1,240 wordsPaul Laurence Dunbar &# 9; Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872 in Dayton, OH. His mother Matilda, was a former slave and his father Joshua had escaped slavery and served in the 55 th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5 th Massachusetts Colored Calvary Regiment during the Civil war (online). Joshua and Matilda separated in 1874. &# 9; Dunbar came from a poor family. After his father left, his mother supported the family by working as a washerwoman. One of the families she worked for...
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