Word: accustomedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Nego is not a recent immigrant. But unlike the white immigrant groups, the Negroes did not join together in ethnic communities upon arrival in the "land of the free" and were thus not able together to accustom themselves to the new society and to pursue mobility aims in the classic Lower East Side-to-"respectable" apartments-to-suburbia fashion of the other major immigrant communities, Slavery meant that members of the same African village or tribe were forcibly separated and settled in different parts of this country and even that members of the same family were split from each...