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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr was a Jamaican political leader who accomplished many things within his lifetime. He was a well-known publisher, entrepreneur, journalist, Black Nationalist, as well as Pan-Africanist. Pan Africanism is the idea that all African American people possess a common cultural legacy extending from Africa. In saying this, all African Americans should work together in maintaining the culture and removing expatriate power. Marcus Garvey was important because he aided in inspiring

The whole country was shocked and disheveled by the news and the director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was on a search. The investigation of the assassination of JFK caused panic to American citizens as they were looking for someone to take the blame. Though America had been through three other previous presidential assassinations, the United

Malcolm X and the Black Panthers both the profoundly affected the goals of the civil right movement. Malcolm X was born on May 19th, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. Earl Little, (Malcolm’s father) was an outspoken Baptist minister and an avid supporter of the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcom graduated at the top of his class however when a teacher told him that his dream of becoming a lawyer was “no realistic goal for a nigger” (Genius, 2016), these words greatly impacted him and caused him

A communist government is a system in which a state plans and controls the economy. A single party holds the power. The state controls include the elimination of private property and capital, claiming to make a social order in which all goods are equally shared among the people. A communist state is a one party system, there can usually be multiple parties but most of the time there is one dominant party. The economy in a communist state is dominated by state owned and state run enterprises. There

John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Assassination On the tragic day of November 22nd, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy 's assassination, America stopped and stood still. The 35th president of the United States was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, other conspiracies say that the CIA, Lyndon B. Johnson or the Mafia could have done it too. The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. He was born in Brookline Massachusetts, to Rose and Joseph Kennedy. He was also the grandson of John

too. John Fitzgerald Biography John F Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. Kennedy’s maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald was a politician who served as the mayor of Boston and a congressman while his paternal grandfather P. J Kennedy was a liquid trader and a

During the late 1960's and early '70's posters of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the country. Wearing a black beret and a leather jacket, sitting on a wicker chair, a spear in one hand and a rifle in the other, the poster depicted Huey Newton as a symbol of his generation's anger and courage in the face of racism and imperialism (Albert and Hoffman 4, 45). His intellectual capacity and community leadership abilities helped

Stokely Carmichael Kwame Toure, better known as Stokely Carmichael, was one of the most prominent civil rights figures in our history. Born in Trinidad, he became a citizen at the age of 13. Stokely and his family moved to an Italian and Jewish neighborhood where he was one of the few African Americans. He attended one of the most prestigious high schools, Bronx High School of Science where he remained one of the few faces of color among his white elite counterparts. Carmichael became very

“ The 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights in the Constitution and federal law.” from Wikipedia.com. The Civil Rights Era was where many things have changed for the world now. To education, law, enforcement and the people's freedom. Many people had sacrifice ensure our future to be bright, and most of the big stars now

“Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity,” has been the longstanding motto of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since being founded in 1908, by J. Edgar Hoover and Theodore Roosevelt. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was once infamously known as the “Murder Capital of the World” from 2008 to 2013, due to territorial control amongst drug cartels and daily mass murders. I was born in El Paso, Texas, which is bordered with Ciudad Juarez. Unfortunately, I witnessed this violence first hand at the time it was occurring