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African American writers recorded the changing conditions: on one hand the disappointments and hardships of being black, on the other hand the definition of self as a thinking reflecting being in a society
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The backbone of the anti slavery movement.
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Their purpose was to supress and terrorise African Americans.
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People helped former slaves become part of society. Three amendments were passed in this time, giving black people more rights.
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Build by exploited Asians and African Americans.
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The Democratic Party won which were on the side of southern separatists.
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Slavery was officially outlawed.
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The establishment of a black college.
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Everything was segregated, and black men was disen'franchised.
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In this period 2500 black men were lynched, hanged, burnt alive, castrated and tortured.
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One of many personal experiences written during the Reconstruction Period, the novel pictures one of the most prominent early exsamples of African American fiction written by a young woman.
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The Supreme Court decied and declared that segregation was not unconsitutional as long as equal facilities were available.
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One of the white writers that began dealing with the complexity of racism in Southern culture. He is known for being a really brilliant writer.
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Thomas Dixon Jr. wrote "An historical romance of the Ku Kux Klan", to prevent moral decay and to maintain the segregation of races.
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WW1 made thousands of African Americans go north and get jobs in the military, on the railroad and in factories due to white male Americans went off to Europe to fight.
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African Americans moved to Harlem to unfold their creativity, such as jazz, blues, dance. Harlem was called "The Capital of Negro" in this period of time.
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The crash put an end to the Harlem Renaissance, and started The Great Depression.
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Margaret Mitchells book won the Pullitzer Prize, and was made into one of the most popular films ever made, that helped portrate the myth of the happy slave.