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    that is relevant to the main character and the story. It also shows what Steve is thinking about during his time in jail. Another way Walter Dean Myers demonstrates this idea is by describing one of Steve's’ thoughts: “Cut To: Exterior: MS of Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Steve is sitting on a bench, and James King sits with him. King is bleary-eyes and smokes a joint as he talks.” (Myers 149). This displays how the author Mr.Myers introduces the character James King to the reader and what kind…

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    tittle tracks draw an analogy between the biblical story of Moses and the Israelites leaving exile and his own situation. The songs also discuss returning to Africa and descendant of Africans repatriating their homeland can be linked to the work of Marcus Garvey. Relied as a single “exodus” was a hit in Britain, as were “waiting in vain” and jamming” the entire album stayed on the UK chat for more than a year today Exodus is considered to be one of the best album ever made. The same year in 1977…

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    The Rastafarian Movement

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    for the cattle and herb for the service of man." Even though this is a small part of scripture it becomes one of the biggest concepts of the religion. The Rastafarian movement originated from Jamaica. It has many roles of different religions. Marcus Garvey preached black pride and has colored skin to move back from Africa. “The coronation of Haile Selassie filled many colored people with hope for political and economic independence. They even saw him and believe his Gods messenger on Earth”…

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Biography and His Contribution for Community Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was an African-American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. W.E.B. Dubois was an intellectually gifted person and he is the first man of African descent to receive a PH.D from Harvard University.He wrote extensively and was the best…

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    males. Not only did fashion express an individual as a person, but it also represented their social status (History). Key Leader throughout the Harlem Renaissance originally sparked the civil rights movement. W.E.B DuBois founder of the NAACP and Marcus Garvey founder of the UNIA and led the “Back to Africa” movement sparked it all with a strong approach to how this peaceful and happy life most of the black people in Harlem are living should be like this across the states. Some other think…

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    the repatriation of black Americans to Africa, arguing that the only biologically sound nation was the one in which the races were geographically separate. Spearheaded by Cox, the campaign garnered the support of Marcus Garvey, leader of the United Negro Improvement Association. Garvey, Powell, and Cox corresponded frequently throughout the 1920s, the three men sharing a strong commitment to racial separatism. Cox expanded upon the theme of repatriation and the superiority of white civilization…

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    The question that is posed today is, does racism exist still? When it comes to race there is no definite way to really say that it does exist. America, has grown into a society that disguise their hate for others behind a smile. Every so often, Americans will forget the hardship that many endured to obtain their civil right and they will let their hate seep from their lip out of anger “damn nigger.” How can ones anger allow you to belittle another? Self-exposure of fear is the reason why the…

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    Langston Hughes: A Harlem Man A quote by Langston Hughes says – “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. (Hughes (1926))” As one of the most persistent figures, poets, during the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes’ work reached a wide range of viewers. He wanted to “express contemporary Harlem by borrowing from the ‘current of Afro-American popular music . . . jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop.’…

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    comparison between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Let’s get right to the biography of Malcolm X. Malcolm X has a rich history starting all the way back in mid-1925. Malcolm was born on May 19, 1925. His dad is a baptist minister and supports Marcus Garvey, who is a civil rights activist. Because of this, his family has been receiving death threats, and he had to relocate twice before he even turned four. In 1929, their home in Lansing Michigan is burned down. About two years later, his dad’s…

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    Marcus Garvey states, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” (BrainyQuote.com.) In history, especially during colonization, foreign powers have attempted practices to eradicate the culture and traditions of Native and African people. In the novels Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the protagonists Saul and Okonkwo are forced to integrate into the Caucasian culture, having their own cultures…

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