… tried to describe to a very well known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South. My recital disturbed him and made him indignant; and he asked me in perfect innocence, “Why don’t all the Negroes in the South move North?” I…

… Death, has been around since the time of cave people. It was because of weak or injured animals being eaten. The animal had fleas, which carried the disease to the predator. The first recorded case of the Black plague was in China in BC 224. However…

… Americans served in federal, state, and local offices. Information on these individuals is difficult to find, seeing as during this time black lawmakers were condemned as subhuman, and in no need of documentation. Eric Foner, author of Black Politicians…

… played a central role in the struggle for civil rights in the postwar era. Stemming from an effort dating back to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the black movement had gained more momentum by the mid-twentieth century. African Americans continued…

… Seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the Nineteenth Century the White people of North America used the Black people of Africa as slaves to benefit their interests. White people created a climate of superiority of their race over the Black African race…

… War For the beginning, in the middle and in the ending of the Civil War in the United States, the Black Americans were central as soldier and civilian. At first, people tried hard to get around this fact. Even President Abraham Lincoln administra…

… you ever had a question of where did the blues originate from? How did Rock and Roll develop? How does the blues effect us? Well everywhere people go and listen to the blues music has some influence in the 20th Century. Since the past twenty years,…

… each of these distinct cultures have different backgrounds, rituals and practices. These cultures have a profound effect on the minds of their inhabitants. It's a person's culture which effects their thoughts, beliefs and their outlook upon life.…

… of a Worldview written by Audrey Smedley SUMMARY According to Audrey Smedley, in Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, race is “a set of beliefs and attitudes about human differences, not the differences themselves.”…

… autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burrough's tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred to as a "plantation." His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm. "The early years of my life,…