Examples of Black Friday in the following topics:
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- Beginning with the Black Friday gold speculation ring in 1869, corruption was uncovered during Grant's two presidential terms in seven federal departments.
- The first scandal to taint the Grant administration in 1869 was Black Friday (also known as the "Gold Panic"), which was an attempt by two financiers to corner the price of gold without consideration for the nation's economic welfare.
- Then, on September 23, 1869 (known infamously as "Black Friday"), the price of gold soared to $160 dollars an ounce.
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- This unstable economic growth came at the end of a series of economic setbacks: the Black Friday panic of 1869, the Chicago fire of 1871, the outbreak of equine influenza in 1872, and demonetization of silver in 1873.
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- Black Power emphasized racial pride, the creation of political and social institutions against oppression, and advancement of black collective interests.
- "Black Power" is a term used to refer to various ideologies associated with African Americans in the United States, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values.
- Black Power meant a variety of things.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. was not comfortable with the "Black Power" slogan, which sounded too much like black nationalism to him.
- The 1960s composed a decade not only of Black Power but also of Black Pride.
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- Free blacks were an important demographic in the United States, though their rights were often curtailed.
- Free blacks in America were first documented in 1662 in Northampton County, Virginia.
- By 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War, the nationwide percentage of free blacks remained at 10 percent, but included 45.7 percent of blacks in Maryland, as well as a whopping 91 percent of blacks in Delaware.
- In some Northern cities, blacks were even able to vote.
- Blacks were also outspoken in print, as Freedom's Journal, the first black-owned newspaper, surfaced in 1827.
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- The conditions of black Americans would not improve until the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s.
- Despite these failures, important landmarks in civil rights for black Americans nonetheless were reached at that time.
- The "Reconstruction Amendments" passed by Congress between 1865 and 1870 abolished slavery, gave black Americans equal protection under the law, and granted suffrage to black men.
- Reconstruction was never forgotten among the black community and remained as a source of inspiration.
- The system of share-cropping allowed blacks a considerable amount of freedom as compared to slavery.
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- The Exodus of 1879 was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
- It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
- Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas only to be stranded in St.
- Black churches in St.
- The Kansas Fever Exodus refers specifically to six thousand blacks who moved from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to Kansas.
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- After the Brownsville Affair, blacks began to turn against Roosevelt.
- A renewed investigation in the early 1970s exonerated the discharged black troops.
- While president of Princeton University, Wilson discouraged blacks from applying for admission, preferring to keep the peace among white students than have black students admitted.
- Wilson and his cabinet members fired many black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, but also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.
- Wilson drafted hundreds of thousands of blacks into the army, giving them equal pay with whites, but kept them in all-black units with white officers, and kept the great majority out of combat .
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- At the time of the American Revolution, some blacks had already been enlisted as Minutemen.
- In addition to the role of soldier, blacks also served as guides, messengers, and spies.
- In state navies, some blacks served as pilots, such as in South Carolina which had significant numbers of black pilots.
- Revolutionary leaders began to be fearful of using blacks in the armed forces.
- This order did not apply to blacks already serving in the army.
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- Others responded to Dunmore's Proclamation and fought for their freedom as Black Loyalists.
- Freedom was the main motivation for the black slave whether joining either the Patriot or British army.
- The free black may have been drafted or enlisted by his own volition.
- In state navies, some blacks served as pilots; South Carolina had significant numbers of black pilots.
- Revolutionary leaders began to fear using blacks in the armed forces.
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- Also known as the Brownsville Raid, the Brownsville Affair arose from tensions between black soldiers and white citizens in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906.
- Black people and many white people across the United States were outraged at Roosevelt’s actions.
- Prior to the Brownsville Affair, the black community had supported the Republican president.
- After the Brownsville Affair, however, black people began to turn against Roosevelt.
- A renewed investigation in the early 1970s exonerated the discharged black troops.