A Muckraker is a brave organization exposing injustices; so grave they made the blood of the average America run cold. ... " –charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1911 Both black and white families struggled to keep their family alive. The little children in the families, they had no choice but to work, then be educated for their family to survive. ... Low wages family prevented their children from education. ... It was either good or bad for the family and the society. ...

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Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. Hughes hated his father and he was passed around between his different family members and family friend. ... Langston continued to write poetry however and he dropped out of college with a B+ average. ...

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Johnson states, "Segregation in housing and schools is stubborn and pervasive, and the average wealth of white families is almost ten times that of Blacks." ... It was intended so the White male could have luxurious cars, live in a big house, and be able to spend money on either himself or his family. ...

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Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." ... That no matter what minority that you are from you still deserve some form of compensation for the wrongs that were done not only to your ethnicity, but also to their past family relatives. ... They feel that this law is unfair, taking away more gifts that I can give to ...

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Bigger Thomas was poor for most of his life, living in a one bedroom apartment with his mother, brother, and sister, Bigger struggled through most of his life like any other average black person. Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as his family. Like Bigger, Richard Wright was forced to live with his family in a small apartment, through most of his life he struggled to feed himself, his family, and tried to attend school as well. Richard Wright didn't get...

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In America the average income for a black man is 61% less than the average white man and that is the same percentage difference as in 1880. ... This is going to cost a lot of jobs in America and the UK so the big businesses can get richer while thousand of people have no money to support their family. ...

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The Breedlove family has moved from the rural south to urban Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family dysfunction. ... He represents the average black man. ...

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Prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird " As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." ... He was an average black man in Maycomb. ...

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More blacks ran for office and more than average were elected. ... The result of this was black families moved to the white suburbs. When the black families moved there they were met with angry white families, and eventually made the black families go back to the ghetto in Chicago south side. ...

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"Most problems that African-Americans in the inner cities suffer from are from an internal breakdown in the family structure. In the nineteen-sixties, the overall family structure in black Americans began to crumble" (Parker 3). ... The average African-American makes over three times what the average person of Africa makes and in America, African-Americans have the opportunity for advancement. ...

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"1 This was because slaves had their food, clothes, shelter and everything needed for themselves and their families provided by their masters, although the condition and quality of such provisions were not mentioned. ... In his document, he wrote, "The negro men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day....

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I feel like the average person would fall under this fallacy. ... I say that because I think my family's cultural practices have definitely provided me with cultural capital. ... I also come from a family that has many college graduates and I aspire to be one as well. ... My family operates with a high work ethic, and it is expected I do the same. ... The cultural capital I inherited from my family has and will continue to help me navigate in a Eurocentric world. ...

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The average prisoner is said to be less educated and perform at the level of a 10th grader. ... Also, higher incarceration rates affect the family unit. ... As a result, their families struggle economically while they are locked up which contribute too cycle of incarceration in the community. ...

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The wage gap becomes harmful to African-American women because these women tend to support families on their own. Statistics show that female-headed households earn an average income of $32,031. ... The Institute for Women's Policy Research reported that 20 percent of African-American women are very worried about having enough money to provide for food and shelter for their families compared to 10 percent of white women. ...

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Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Both were of well-to-do families that were proud of their heritage. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ...

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Police Blood runs in his family. ... Throughout the year of 2012, 21 people were killed by the NYPD, which averages at almost 2 killings per month. ... Statistics for police brutality in America are as followed: 3,445 police misconduct reports 4,778 victims 258 fatalities reported One incident every 96 minutes 33% of officers charged were convicted, not justly for the crime committed 64% of officers convicted were imprisoned, not as long as justified Those sentenced served as average of 14 months, far less than citizens for the same crime (Stephan). ...

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Because of tension with whites, Teedyuscung and his family and his followers left hometown of Trenton, New Jersey to Lehigh, Pennsylvania. ... He made a relationship with the whites and at 50 years old, on March12, 1750 he and his family were baptized a Christian and all took new names. ... He learned the native ways with his Dutch family. ... The average sugar baron in Barbados owned 115 slaves in 1680 and slaves became the majority of the population. Few slaves could have families due to the man to woman ratio, so the slave population could not grow by natural reproduction. ...

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But then again how would you be looked at by your own race, by your family. ... The ex-colored man didn't want the average salary of a black man; he wanted what he deserved despite of his color and race. ...

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This impoverishment of the middle and poor classes hit families hard and "by 1989 CEOs of corporations were making 93 times as much as the average factory worker"(Zinn, 425). ... One third of African American families fell below the poverty level and black unemployment was at a rate of 30 to 40 percent, two and half times as much as whites. ...

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The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ... A black athlete then doesn't have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. ... They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they can't do good or excel, but anyone can do good or excel if they put their mind to it. ... Many whites grow up in poor families, and they can't use excuses either. ...

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The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. Faced with misery and suffering that many succumbed to, African American women as a group proved resilient eno...

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According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Once a black family moved into a house on Kinloch grounds, all of the white families around them began to leave the city (Wright 7-9). ... "We like it this way," said my friend Alfredo Lewis commenting on the community empowerment theory, "I don't care if a few white families move in around me, as long as I live in a place that's mos...

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I feel strongly that keeping your family close will help you have a healthier life. ... In my life a family member that I loved very much caused me this same anger. ... Family is also very important to me so when someone in my family lets me down it hurts more than the average person. ... He promised he wouldn't break apart my family even when he knew he was. ... Even though I was furious with every thing he did, he was still my family and i found it in my heart to forgive him. ...

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Her rational powers and will to action facilitate her efforts to find strategies for dealing with sexual harassment from her master, for maintaining family unity, and in establishing a moral code in harmony with her beliefs and situation. ... He was separated from his mother at a very young age, as was typical of many Negro families. ... Throughout his autobiography, Douglass conveys the horrors that were typical the average slave. ...

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