Why did Jesse Jackson embrace the term "African American" for people of African descent?
A: It is free from racial biases.
B: It represents social progress.
C: It is in the interest of common Americans.
D: It follows the standard naming practice.
A: It is free from racial biases.
B: It represents social progress.
C: It is in the interest of common Americans.
D: It follows the standard naming practice.
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- Why did Jesse Jackson embrace the term “African American” for people of African descent?
- The blues song Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom manifests African Americans’ pride as being African Americans.
- There are many people in the Untied States today whose ancestors (祖先) came from Africa as slaves (奴隶). These people are usually called African Americans (非裔美国人). African Americans prefer (更喜欢)this name rather than "Blacks. " African Amcricans were onee called "Negroes" (黑人)or "colored people." These names are considered (认为) impolile (无礼) today. Black Americans like people to call them ______ A: Negroes B: Blacks C: African Americans
- Martin Luther King Jr. as well as many African Americans devoted themselves to struggling for racial ＿.
- Known as African Americans" poet laureate, ______articulates the miseries and agonies of the blacks in face of racial discrimination.