Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.

The black caiman and American Alligator are the only members of the alligator family that pose the same danger to humans as the larger species of the crocodile family.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society.

The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

As of 2012, this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN.

As a result, in North America, the term " black people " is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a history related to institutionalized slavery.

In 1835 black leaders called upon black Americans to remove the title of " African " from their institutions and replace it with " Negro " or " Colored American ".

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

A considerable portion of the U. S. population identified as black also has some Native American or European ancestry.

Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

Example: In American Roulette, there are two zeroes and 36 non-zero numbers ( 18 red and 18 black ).

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Fur colour in American wolves ranges from white, black, red, yellow, brown, grey, and grizzled skins, and others representing every shade between, although usually each locality has its prevailing tint.

He was described as a " race man ": an African American who dedicated his skills to the furtherance of the black race.

Spiral served as a collective of conversation and artistic exploration for a large group of artists who " addressed how black artists should relate to American society in a time of segregation.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

Of Cuba's vintage American cars, many have been modified with newer engines, disc brakes and other parts, often scavenged from Soviet cars, and most bear the marks of decades of use.

Penguins on the dimly lit Antarctic ice ; ... a family of gorillas, the male beating his chest, ... an American grizzly bear standing on his hind legs, ten or twelve feet tall, and staring me right in the eye.

His grandson, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and was claimed by his mother to bear a strong resemblance to her father.

In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".

She was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.

North American indigenous traditions particularly mingle the idea of bear ancestors and ursine shapeshifters, with bears often being able to shed their skins to assume human form, marrying human women in this guise.

However, the American Institute of Biological Sciences also notes bones of dead elephants, left on the ground and subsequently trampled by other elephants, tend to bear marks resembling butchery marks, which have previously been misinterpreted as such by archaeologists.

Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name " Super Bowl " ( The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as " Super Bowls ").

A number of wildlife species threatened or endangered with extinction can be found in the Canadian boreal forest, including woodland caribou, American black bear, grizzly bear, wood bison and wolverine.

In no particular order, early American settlers viewed the right to arms and / or the right to bear arms and / or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes:

* armed sloop ( 18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777 ), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain

* Enterprise ( 1776 ) schooner ( 20 December 1776 – February 1777 ), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

Is this any longer an English Parliament, if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of Europe ; with above two millions of people in your American colonies, you will bear to hear of the expediency of receiving from Spain an insecure, unsatisfactory, dishonourable Convention?

The American bison ( Bison bison ), brown bear or grizzly bear ( Ursus arctos ), and elk or wapiti ( Cervus canadensis ) entered North America around the same time as the first humans, and expanded rapidly, filling ecological niches left empty by the newly-extinct North American megafauna.

In early 2002, United States Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper ordered that one airplane in each USAF squadron and all USAF demonstration planes would bear an image of an eagle on an American flag with the words " Let's Roll " and " Spirit of 9-11 ," to remain until the first anniversary of the attack.

The ( North ) American black bear ( Ursus americanus ) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.

Losing fewer than two dozen Hellcats, the American pilots were dominant during the battle racking up nearly 500 kills in two days alone.

* The rack or racking is a lateral gait most commonly associated with the Five-Gaited American Saddlebred.

In St. Louis, the spitballer Shocker had come into his own as a starter, racking up four straight 20-win seasons in the years 1920-23 and leading the American League with 27 wins in 1921 and strikeouts the following year, when he won 24 games.

The fortunes of manga in America were changed forever that year when Kurt Hassler of Borders ( who has been called " The Most Powerful Person in Manga " by ICV2, a designation Smith has publicly agreed with, adding that he considers him " he most important person in the history of American manga ") successfully persuaded Waldenbooks to commit to racking a large quantity of unflopped manga titles, even placing them in " dump bins " near the cash registers.

* 1949 – Ann Romney, American horse rider, wife of Mitt Romney

* 1987 – Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey ( d. 2011 )

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

* 1972 – Ruffian, American race horse ( d. 1975 )

* Cleopatra ( horse ), an American racehorse

* Dark Star ( horse ), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

* 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder ( b. 1864 )

* 2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder ( b. 1921 )

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

* 1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer

* 1967 – Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer

* 1965 – Trigger, American acting horse ( b. 1932 )

* 2012 – Scamper, American rodeo horse ( b. 1977 )

* 1975 – Ruffian, American race horse ( b. 1972 )

The " Royals " name originates from the American Royal, a livestock show, horse show, and rodeo held annually in Kansas City since 1899.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

* 1966 – Calvin Borel, American horse jockey

* 1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder ( d. 2010 )

* Phalanx ( horse ), American Champion racehorse

* Quadrangle ( horse ), American thoroughbred, winner of the 1964 Belmont Stakes

* 1935 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer

* 1904 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager ( d. 2003 )

* 2012 – Deputed Testamony, American race horse ( b. 1980 )

The Hagerman horse is also called the American zebra or Hagerman zebra.