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Ferguson, Missouri (ARTICLES (Serwer: "Eighty Years of Ferguson"…
Ferguson, Missouri
ARTICLES
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Coates: "Barack Obama" 
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"Hope is what Barack Obama had promised to bring, but he was promising something he could never bring."
Serwer: "Eighty Years of Ferguson"
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"Violence, as harmful and self-destructive as it is, sometimes works"
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MLK London Speech (1964)
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HOWEVER, there still is a long way to go for African Americans.
"But there is another form of segregation coming up. It is coming up through housing discrimination, joblessness, and the de facto segregation in public schools."
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LITERATURE/ INFORMATION
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Gruesz: "America"
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Writers like Walt Whitman ingrained the idea that America is a synonym for the United States (ex: Leaves of Grass)
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Berlant: "Citizenship"
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White people are seen as more "free" than people of color based on certain immigration legislation (ex: U.S. Naturalization Act of 1790)
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Johnson: "Black"
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"Black" replaced terms such as "negro" and "colored" that have since been associated with Jim Crow laws
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Black Panthers: "Ten Point Program"
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Some goals are applicable today (education, housing, end to police brutality) while others are not (exemption from military service)
Garza: Herstory of #BlackLivesMatter
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Her thoughts: "When black people get free, everybody gets free."
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BLM: A Movement, Not a Moment
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POETRY
Komunyakaa: Ghazal, After Ferguson
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Repetition of "in the streets" implies the disconnect between what goes on outside of African American neighborhood.
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Seidel: "The Ballad of Ferguson, Missouri"
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Pushes the important of race in Brown's death: "Skin color is the name, skin color is the game, skin color is to blame for Ferguson, Missouri."
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