Be ye doers of the word, not hearers only.
Clinton uses the bible to gain moral authority as well as this specific quote to refere back to MLK's constant message for action is need for change to happen.
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'The vast majority of South Carolina says it's time to bringdown the flag now.
how is this claim more than an opinion but a political legitmacy or a straight up fact?
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"outsiders and agitators"
this Shows how flag supports attempting to make the NAACP seem not legitament by shining them in this light.
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Yet, as traditional Southern elites returned topower and inaugurated racial caste systems, black Americans focused on their emancipation, having lost aplace in Fourth of July and Decoration Day events in their broader community
there is a irony in celebrating freedom while being excluded from national holidays that say they honor liberty
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“Emancipation Day Celebrations: The Commemoration of Slavery and Freedom in Iowa.”60 As Schwalmdemonstrates, in the 1850s, black people in Iowa thousands of miles from Britain and twenty years afteremancipation used the holiday as a moment of political culture, asserting their civil rights in Iowa
The fact that this happened 20 years after the emancipation just shows you that the fight for freedom is an ongoing thing and wasnt changed over night.
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As Juneteenth spread throughout the United States as a festival after 1979, it emerged as an inspiration forpopular culture as well.49 Indeed, a significant amount of cultural output has come out of the festivalsdirectly.
why did the author use 1979 as the turning point and key moment when juneteenth spread culturally?What political or social changes explain the shift and why then?
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The Great Migration brought blacks further afield throughout the country, including to the Midwest. Inthe 1970s, Doris Larkins introduced Juneteenth to Wichita, Kansas, getting it recognized as a municipalcelebration.
This shows the great migration didnt just move people but moved cultures and spread them around the US.
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Not surprisingly, Juneteenth eventually became known as Black Independence Day,echoing Frederick Douglass’s famous line, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
In what ways is Juneteenth both a celebration and a protest against the jim crow era?
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