Hale County‚ Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community. The Politics of Reconstruction The Civil War was bloodiest war in American history (600‚000 soldiers died). It began as way to preserve Union but evolved into a struggle for African American freedom‚ resulting in the death of slavery in the United States and the unification of the states under a stronger central government. The Defeated South South destroyed after defeat: towns ruined‚ slavery (means of labor in cotton fields)
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In the United States there have been many social changes. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was the most powerful and compelling change to occur in our history. The Civil Rights Movement was a time dedicated to activism for equal rights and fairness for African Americans in the United States. The people pushed for nothing more than social‚ legal‚ and political changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation. Though Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery was one step in the right direction
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The 1960s and 1970s helped shape the conservative movement to grow in popularity and allowed conservatives to enjoy modern benefits such as economic prosperity and consumerism without conforming to liberal ideologies. The period of strong conservative support‚ the 1960s‚ usually refers to the time frame between 1964 through 1974. The grass roots mobilization started strong with the help of Orange County’s middle-class men and women volunteers. The effort and hard work of these people along with
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Black Blizzard In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west‚ creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land‚ buried roads‚ ruined car engines‚ gave people dust pneumonia‚ and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay. In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was
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established on October 24‚ 1945. The new international organization recognized the importance of freedom of movement through documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966). Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ adopted by the U.N. General Assembly‚ reads‚ (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country
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Huey Newton‚ one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence‚ stated: “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” From the late 1960s‚ to the early 1980s‚ the Black Power Movement (BPM)‚ triggered by the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and influenced heavily by Malcolm X‚ used a variety of techniques‚ including an increasingly militant approach‚ to bring about the change African-Americans demanded‚ with some success and
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African Americans had to overcome before they reached any type of freedom. The first challenge they had to overcome was that they were slaves and considered to be property‚ not a person. Once this was outlawed‚ they had to overcome the discrimination from the government and other Americans. They finally achieved some of the benefits of American freedom by being able to vote‚ work in industrial jobs‚ and express themselves through art. The period Reconstruction lit the fire to a new beginning in
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During the 1960s‚ the Black Power Movement placed emphasis on sustaining Black Nationalism to retain cultural pride within Black people. As a result‚ they formed the Black Arts Movement‚ whose primary mission was to emphasize political awareness for the Black Aesthetic in America. This was to be achieved through various art forms such as theatre‚ literature‚ music‚ etc. The Black Arts Movement was formed when people began to witness disparities between the ideal “American Dream” and the “American
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During the 1960s‚ America witnessed the rise of activist movements that addressed issues such as racial discrimination‚ equal representation in leadership‚ and equal access to education and business by all people in America. This involved a campaign to address the issues of social injustice‚ oppression‚ and suppression of the minority groups in society. They also wanted democratic rule in America where all people were to acquire full citizenship. Establishment Movement was the main operating mechanism
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Black Power From the start of our country African Americans had been beneath white society. The civil rights movement of the south put an end to segregation and gave African Americans the same rights as an Anglo American legally. Racism and black segregation were still very much alive though‚ and if African Americans were ever to be treated as equals they would need to liberate from white society and truly empower themselves. This was the Black Power Movement.
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