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16
1991
Stars And Strife:The Racial Collision That Involved The Flag, School Buses, And A Photo That Shocked The Nation
Stars And Strife:The Racial Collision That Involved The Flag, School Buses, And A Photo That Shocked The Nation
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Namibia: N$6 Billion Needed to Meet Land Delivery Target
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Harry A. Blackmun
Harry A. Blackmun , in full Harry Andrew Blackmun (born Nov. 12, 1908, Nashville, Ill., U.S.—died March 4, 1999, Arlington, Va.), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1970 to
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The words of King David that appear in Psalm 13 of the Old Testament echo in the hearts of American people of color
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(1987) Thurgood Marshall, “A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration”
On August 15, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges.  Reflecting on his two decades on the Court and particularly on recent affirmative action rulings by the High Court, Justice Marshall reminded his audience that the United States had not yet
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15
1987
African American History and Women Timeline 1970-1979
[Previous] [Next] • Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss New York, became the first African American contestant in the Miss America pageant • (August 7) Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroo
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Keep Your Statues And Movies- Give Us Our Reparations Now – Your Black World
The paper says, “HBO Max temporarily removed the epic from its service after the surge of Black Lives Matter protests across the country and a re-energized discussion about racial inequality” ) But While Hollywood copes with their conflicts and contradictions for promoting White supremacy in their
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The Racial Politics of Miss America
Elwood Watson, a professor of history at East Tennessee State University, is one of the few African American cultural historians to focus his research on the Miss America pageant.  In the article below he examines the success of eight black women in winning the pageant and gaining the coveted crown
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Racism in the United States
Racism in the United States has been present since the colonial era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans. European Americans (particularly the
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Black conservatism
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California Senate Okays ACA 5: Affirmative Action Decision Moves to Voters
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Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history
The Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal
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Who Will Be The Next Supreme Court Nominee? Another Issue Black Voters Must Stay On Top Of
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White flight
White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been
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Chambers, Julius L. (1936-2013)
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1924
Schmoke, Kurt L. (1949- )
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The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities of Color in “America’s Suburb”
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East Pasco Co-op (1965- )
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