African American History Final

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Black power movement

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The progress made at achieving civil rights, achieving self-determination for people of African descent

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Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Very different in terms of means of achieving equality, both assassinated at the age of 39

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FBI Targeted the black panther party

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Named them the #1 threat to security of the nation and called them extremist.

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The black panther party

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founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality but became an organization that fought for equality and asking black citizens

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Muhammed Ali

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Cassius Clay, now known as Muhammad Ali, was convicted of violating the United States Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted on ground of it being against religion and was dethroned

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Black arts movement

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Asthetic expression of black power. politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers.

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Maulana karenga and Kwanzaa

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African-American professor of Africana studies, convicted felon, activist and author, best known as the creator of Kwanzaa.

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Nina Simone

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Wrote young gifted and black in memory of her late friend Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun

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Dr jemison

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First female African American to go into space

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Amiri Baraka

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Black fire, a collection of African Americans works

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Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr.

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the first African American in space.

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Clarence Thomas

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More conservative and anti thurgood Marshall will being second black supreme Court Justice

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Maya Angelou

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African American poet

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Collin Powell

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the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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The Negro Family (known as the Moynihan Report) was written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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report focused on the deep roots of black poverty in the United States and controversially concluded that the high rate of families headed by single mothers would greatly hinder progress of blacks toward economic and political equality.

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Keener report

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concluded that the nation was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.”

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nihilism

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the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.

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4 levels of racism

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Internalized

Interpersonal

Institutional

Structural

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Internalized racism

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Private beliefs

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Interpersonal

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Between individuals, hate crimes and such

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Institutional racism

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Occurs within institutions and systems of power ie: school systems and unemployment

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Structural racism

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Occurs among institutions and within societies ie: war on drugs and criminal Justice system

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Condaleeza rice

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first female African-American Secretary of State

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Voting rights any of 1965

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aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote