Ronald Reagan’s America presented African Americans with a series of contradictions. Black Americans achieved significant advances in politics, culture, and socioeconomic status. Indeed, income for

Note that this discussion centers on the development of the desk-top individual computer (“PCs”), as compared to large, sophisticated “mainframe” computers used by industry. The

Ronald Reagan left office in 1988 with the Cold War waning and the economy booming. Unemployment had dipped to 5 percent by 1988. Between 1981

Reagan and the Republicans dominated the national political scene during most of the 1980s; however, he could not run for another term in 1988. The

What follows is a list of some of the literature used generally as resources for the topics in this section of the Songbook. Other citations

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