Sentences with phrase «black emancipation»

Regardless, she serves as a symbol of black emancipation by providing positive forms of self - representation.

He was very jovial...» It was a deeply moving reminder that the history of black emancipation in America is short in the relative sweep of history.

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Cone then went on to ask how it is possible to reconcile this focus on Black Power, and on emancipation at any cost, with Christ's message of love.

As far as blacks go, um who gave the emancipation proclamation?

In this book Cone declared that «Christ is black, baby,» that black power means «complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary.»

In the South, even gradual emancipation could no longer be openly discussed, and in the North black voting was curtailed in almost all the states where it had been permitted.

[45] Designed by Theodosia Salome Okoh; the red represents the blood that was shed towards independence, the gold represents the industrial minerals wealth of Ghana, the green symbolises the rich grasslands of Ghana, and the black star is the symbol of the Ghanaian people and African emancipation.

The report, assembled under the direction of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, made the case that civil rights legislation needed to be only the first step toward emancipation of black Americans from the legacies of the past.

Although the abolition of slavery and emancipation laws led to the start of education for all, the descendants of Black slaves are often amongst the poorest classes in Jamaica.

The church, led by the Reverend Clementa Pickney who, in addition to his pulpit, was a state senator, is the oldest traditionally Black Church in the South and has long been a fixture of the struggle for emancipation and civil rights during its almost 200 year history.

The title refers to the day in 1865 when black slaves in Texas learned of their emancipation, two years after the fact.

In that sense, it forms a unique bridge able to address a variety of topics, such as female emancipation and black consciousness.

Owusu uses an experimental, cinematic language to visualize what she has termed «triple consciousness,» an adaptation of sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois's conception of black American identity after emancipation, extended to the experience of African expatriates.

Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways

Gore got himself into trouble with black activists last month when he compared the fight against global warming to the emancipation of black slaves.