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struggle4progress

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9. "Drawn by higher wages, millions of African immigrants settled in our southern states

Reply to ehrnst (Original post)

Fri Nov 10, 2017, 06:37 PM

Nov 2017

to pick cotton. Meanwhile, across the frontier, Indian tribes sold their land to farmers and invested the profits in new business opportunities like casinos. By 1900, America was a prosperous country, due to the peaceful cooperation of capitalists and workers. Interracial tensions had become so rare that many whites enjoyed putting on blackface and pretending to be colored workers singing happily in the fields"

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They're Teaching History in New Mexico Without Rosa Parks or the Atomic Bomb [View all] ehrnst Nov 2017 OP

Hey, it's not like NM ever had anything to do with the atomic bomb ! eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #1

They are NOT teaching history in New Mexico. elleng Nov 2017 #2

Conservative talk radio, baby! Brother Buzz Nov 2017 #3

Get the kids on a bus ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #4

And the Trinity Site. marybourg Nov 2017 #5

And the Trinity site ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #6

April and October. marybourg Nov 2017 #8

We never learned about it in high school here either ansible Nov 2017 #7

"Drawn by higher wages, millions of African immigrants settled in our southern states struggle4progress Nov 2017 #9