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“If you ask me I’m ready”

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HhuGQUZJot8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This video of the song “Unthinkable” by Alicia Keys clearly demonstrates an interracial relationship between two young people. Interracial marriage in the united states was illegal starting in the colonial period. The Loving v. … Continue reading

Posted in November 30 Assignment, TV24 | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

= Rights!

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_b0G4xAwFVg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This video explains what Who Alice Paul was and what she fought for. She advocated equal rights for women. It is unclear who is the narrator and when the video was originally produced.

Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24 | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Ellis Island!

Ready for travel and going north, south and west. Immigrants with baggage lined up at teller’s windows marked money exchange. Photographer Edwin Levick. Picture taken between 1902 and 1913. Immigrants undergoing medical examination at Ellis Island. Photographer Edwin levick. Picture … Continue reading

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“The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior”

  Carrie Chapman Catt born January 9, 1859 was known as an activist, reformer, teacher, reporter, but most importantly as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. She had an important role in the final passage of … Continue reading

Posted in September 28 Assignment, TV24 | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

LEAVE YOUR TRIBE (REJECT YOUR CULTURE) AND BECOME A CITIZEN!

During the 19th century the citizenship rights granted by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Native Americans. Some laws did however offer them citizenship if they left their tribe and “joined” American society, but the  American Indians … Continue reading

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