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Minstrel-show characters played a powerful role in shaping assumptions about African Americans. However, unlike vehemently anti-black propaganda from the time, minstrelsy made this attitude palatable to a wide audience by couching it in the guise of well intentioned paternalism.[64] Black Americans were in turn expected to uphold these stereotypes, or else risk white retaliation. Some were even killed for defying their minstrelsy-defined roles. ...

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1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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Along with the talent he booked each week, he also had recurring characters appear many times a season, such as his puppet sidekick Topo Gigio, and ventriloquist Señor Wences. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show also aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. For many years, Ed Sullivan was a national event each Sunday evening, and was the first expo ...

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Aa-Al - Am-Au List of famous pairs - Aa-Al. Aachen & Aix-la-Chapelle (geographical; juxtapositions) (German and French names for the same town) Abbott & Costello (colleagues; entertainers) Abélard & Heloise (couples) Abercrombie & Fitch (commercial partners) Ace and Gary (fictional; partners) Adam & Eve (Biblical; couples) Addison & Steele (colleagues; writers) Adenine & thymine (scientific; complementa ...

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List of famous pairs, List of famous pairs - A, List of famous pairs - Aa-Al, List of famous pairs - Am-Au, List of famous pairs - B, List of famous pairs - Ba, List of famous pairs - Be-Bi, List of famous pairs - Bl-Bo, List of famous pairs - Br-Bu, List of famous pairs - C, List of famous pairs - Ca-Ce, List of famous pairs - Ch-Co, List of famous pairs - Cr-Cy, List of famous pairs - D, List of famous pairs - E, List of famous pairs - F, List of famous pairs - G, List of famous pairs - H, List of famous pairs - Ha, List of famous pairs - He-Ho, List of famous pairs - Hu, List of famous pairs - I, List of famous pairs - J, List of famous pairs - K, List of famous pairs - L, List of famous pairs - La-Li, List of famous pairs - Lo-Lu, List of famous pairs - M, List of famous pairs - Ma, List of famous pairs - Me-Mo, List of famous pairs - Mu, List of famous pairs - N, List of famous pairs - O, List of famous pairs - P, List of famous pairs - Pa-Pl, List of famous pairs - Po-Pu, List of famous pairs - Q, List of famous pairs - R, List of famous pairs - Ra-Ri, List of famous pairs - Ro, List of famous pairs - Ru-Rw, List of famous pairs - S, List of famous pairs - Sa-Sh, List of famous pairs - Si-Sm, List of famous pairs - So-Su, List of famous pairs - T, List of famous pairs - Ta-To, List of famous pairs - Tr-Ty, List of famous pairs - U, List of famous pairs - V, List of famous pairs - W, List of famous pairs - X, List of famous pairs - Y, List of famous pairs - Z

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In early 2005, Estefan participated in two charity concerts to aid the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami. She sang "There's Always Tomorrow" on a live NBC broadcast, "Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope", with other superstar musical acts, that raised over $18 million dollars for the Red Cross International Response Fund. Estefan also raised $120,000 for tsunami relief efforts with her performance at a private benefit concert at financier Donald Trump's ...

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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Ha - He-Ho - Hu List of famous pairs - Ha. h and Chi Persei (astronomical; juxtapositions) Hagar & Helga Hagbard and Signy (the Romeo and Juliet of the Vikings) Hagler and Hearns (rivals; boxers) Haim and Feldman (entertainers, the two Coreys) Hale & Dorr (commercial partners) (Boston law firm) Hale & Pace Hall & Oates (musical duo) Ham and eggs (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) Hammer &a ...

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List of famous pairs, List of famous pairs - A, List of famous pairs - Aa-Al, List of famous pairs - Am-Au, List of famous pairs - B, List of famous pairs - Ba, List of famous pairs - Be-Bi, List of famous pairs - Bl-Bo, List of famous pairs - Br-Bu, List of famous pairs - C, List of famous pairs - Ca-Ce, List of famous pairs - Ch-Co, List of famous pairs - Cr-Cy, List of famous pairs - D, List of famous pairs - E, List of famous pairs - F, List of famous pairs - G, List of famous pairs - H, List of famous pairs - Ha, List of famous pairs - He-Ho, List of famous pairs - Hu, List of famous pairs - I, List of famous pairs - J, List of famous pairs - K, List of famous pairs - L, List of famous pairs - La-Li, List of famous pairs - Lo-Lu, List of famous pairs - M, List of famous pairs - Ma, List of famous pairs - Me-Mo, List of famous pairs - Mu, List of famous pairs - N, List of famous pairs - O, List of famous pairs - P, List of famous pairs - Pa-Pl, List of famous pairs - Po-Pu, List of famous pairs - Q, List of famous pairs - R, List of famous pairs - Ra-Ri, List of famous pairs - Ro, List of famous pairs - Ru-Rw, List of famous pairs - S, List of famous pairs - Sa-Sh, List of famous pairs - Si-Sm, List of famous pairs - So-Su, List of famous pairs - T, List of famous pairs - Ta-To, List of famous pairs - Tr-Ty, List of famous pairs - U, List of famous pairs - V, List of famous pairs - W, List of famous pairs - X, List of famous pairs - Y, List of famous pairs - Z

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David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor and musician who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. He is the son of Irish Catholic actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, who was of English Protestant descent. Prior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared on Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. When he started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself broug ...

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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D (born July 12, 1937) is an American actor, comedian, educator, television producer and philanthropist. He was the first African-American man to star in his own television series (I Spy with Robert Culp, in the mid-1960s), and also broke racial boundaries with his stand-up comedy career in the 1960s and 1970s. After I Spy he starred in other series, some of which were successful (such as the long-running cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), while others were not. In t ...

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• Bill Cosby - The Pound Cake Speech
• Bill Cosby - Cosby and Jazz
• Bill Cosby - Controversy
• Bill Cosby - Quotations
• Bill Cosby - Partial discography
• Bill Cosby - Trivia

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Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s,especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In the United States, this decad ...

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1920s, 1920s - Events and trends, 1920s - Technology, 1920s - Science, 1920s - War peace and politics, 1920s - Economics, 1920s - Culture religion, 1920s - People, 1920s - World leaders, 1920s - Entertainers, 1920s - Sports figures

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Burakumin (部落民: buraku, community + min, people), or hisabetsu buraku (被差別部落 "discriminated communities") are a Japanese social minority group. The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaido and residents of Korean and Chinese descent. Their place in Japanese society is often compared to the Dalits, or Untouchables, in the culture of India. Past and current discrimination has resulted in lower educational attainment and socioeconomic status among ...

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• Burakumin - Criticisms of the Buraku Liberation League
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• Burakumin - Eta
• Burakumin - Burakumin in film and fiction
• Burakumin - Credits

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1950s - World leaders. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada) Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) Emperor Hirohito (Japan) Pope Pius XII Pope John XX ...

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The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a more con ...

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The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a m ...

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