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African Americans In The Civil Rights Movement

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This is an interesting question I often use the words Black and African American interchangeable, but in this week’s reading, I read that during the era of the Civil Rights Movement, some Black Americans would rather be addressed as Black, not African American because they were not born in Africa and also because they are not in Africa, they are in America and they are Americans.
In the beginning, Harlem was not an African American neighborhood but as more and more Blacks migrated from the south and the Caribbean into New York, in search of homes and jobs, Harlem became an Afro-American city.
Regardless of the ancestry, the Harlem Renaissance publicized a Black America that had never been seen before.
I am going to take a shot and say that

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