The movie is told through Danny Vinyard eyes, which is the younger brother of Derek who idolized by Danny. ... I guess Derek didn't get out in time to save his brother. ... It's suprising that he didn't harm his mothers boyfriend when he found out that he was a jew. ... He used a cognitived approach with Danny by making him write about his brothers life. As Danny writes his paper he realizes that his brother wasn't always racist. ...

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His younger brother Reginald steered him towards Allah and the Islamic beliefs. ... He also found that America was alone in its ideas that white people were superior to blacks. ... He had many personal troubles also bothering him, such as when his younger brother Reginald was silenced and removed from the Muslim movement. Malcolm was so pressured by his social institution that he turned his back to his brother. ... Also, about the time he found out about this, he found out that Muhammad praised Malcolm to his face, but behind his back he tore him apart. ...

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Danny Vinyard was influenced greatly by his brother. ... Then Seth went into Cameron's office and found him lying on the floor, so he went after Derek with a gun and everyone in the crowd wanted Seth to shoot Derek because he wanted out, but he didn't and Derek disarmed Seth and him and Danny fled the party. 14. ... One reason I believe Derek had a great influence on Danny is because Derek is Danny's older brother and I think that at one point in his life he looked up to him. ... Would Danny have had his beliefs of racism if it weren't for his brother? Personally I ...

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Sylvia Landry had a happy family with her parents and her younger brother until racist situations occurred. ... " The younger brother, Emily saw her as "the most perfect girl in the world.... While the lynching bodies were burning, in another place, Sylvia was getting harassed by Gridlestone's brother, who wanted to rape her. ... Alma tried to make a relationship between Sylvia and her brother-in-law, a gamble and criminal guy. ... She tried to live positively, overcame many obstacles, and finally, she found the happy ending with Dr. ...

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They then tied him to a log fence, where he was later found. ... That is 40,000 people, 40,000 victims, 40,000 brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers and fathers. ... They slit their father's throat, stabbed their mother numerous times, and beat their 11-year-old brother to death with a metal baseball bat all in the name of the Aryan Nation. One explanation of why they became involved in the skinheads was because: Bryan had finally found someone who accepted him. In Hitler he found his surrogate father, someone who had channeled hate into something constructive: no less than the dest...

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After their parents divorce, Marguerite and her brother Bailey were sent to live with their strict grandmother and their uncle Willie in Stamps, Arkansas. ... Maya felt insecure because everybody was calling her ugly while they called her brother Bailey, handsome and funny. ... When Maya's mother found out what happened, she took her to the ER. ...

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Angela became an advocate for black political prisoners, and she openly spoke in defense of the inmates George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, also known as the Soledad brothers. After guards at Soledad Prison killed George Jackson, his younger brother Jonathan, attempted to free another prisoner from a Marin County, California courthouse by taking hostages. ... From her childhood up unto her adulthood, she always exemplified the spirit of activism, and she always found a cause worth fighting for. ... Angela has found many forums to get her message across to the masses such as the Black Panther...

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When his band coach found out he could not read music, he felt so betrayed because that is one of the requirements for the band. ... "I found God in myself and I loved her." ... When they found out that their master and mistress were going to get a divorce, it scared them. ... The main two characters, Lincoln and Booth, were brothers and each had their own way of looking at life. ... He was very nice and welcoming to his brother Booth, but Booth was always looking for the easy way out of things. ...

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However, both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban League (NUL) were founded by blacks and whites during this time. ... His step-father soon found work for Booker and his brother John. ... After working in the coal mine for some time, his mother found a position for him as a house boy for the Ruffner Family. ... There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ...

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It was a letter from one of his brothers that told him, "I know how to get you out of jail, don't eat pork and quite smoking." Malcom did what his brother told him to do and began wondering how his brother was going to spring him from prison. ... During the composition of these letters, he often found himself frustrated because he did not have the vocabulary to express himself. ...

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My brother and I are extremely close and love each other very much. ... In my case my brother did the same to me. ... It caused me to push him out of my life and basically "take a break" from him, My own brother. ... This is just like with my brother and me. 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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The goal's of the UNIA was he wanted worldwide confraternity of the Black race, he wished to see the development of Africa from a backward, colonial enclave to a self-supporting giant of which all Blacks could be proud, he wanted to see Africa as a developed Negro nation, a forced in world power, and a place to which all Blacks could return and he also wanted to work for the uplifting of the Black race anywhere it was to be found (Johnson). ... Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your lo...

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Harry Crews was a young white boy who lived with his mom, brother, and father on a tobacco tenant farm in the South. Harry Crews was not old enough to work on the farm so he spent his days playing in the shade under the oak tree watching his mom, his brother, and Willalee Bookatee pick the worms off the plants. ... However, Harry could still not see a difference between him and Willalee even though he knew one existed, "I don't know what difference it ever made that I found out the Willalee was a nigger. ...

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The Brotherhood makes the narrator believe that he has found a true place, a place where everyone is working for the improvement of all the people, not just specifically blacks or whites. ... Brother Jack, the Brotherhood leader, admits this when he says, "And I could tell you that politicians are not personal persons" (Ellison 465). ... Towards the end of the meeting, Brother Jack's fake eye falls out of its socket, showing the narrator that his leader was the blindest of them all. ...

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Not only is he found guilty of violating the Immorality act, but he is also disowned by his father for violating society's ideal of racial purity. ... By comparison with her stern, unforgiving brother, she is more tolerant and compassionate; but, even with all these wonderful traits Sophie's understanding is limited in many respects. ... It is Sophie's brother Jakob who points out her biggest problem as the narrator. ...

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Toomer makes his position clear by contrasting the two locales, asserting that the black American roots are founded in the agrarian south since the story starts and finishes there. ... Kabnis, the final section of Cane replicates all of the themes found in parts one and two, however, it manages to achieve a sense of symbolic unity despite the fragmentation of the main character Ralph Kabnis. ... Descriptions of hair are found scattered throughout the text of Cane and a staggering thirty references are made to differing characters hair throughout the book. ...

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Following in the footsteps of his father, who was very well educated himself, and his older brother, who went off to medical school, Paul was anxious to learn and it was shown through his grades. ... He later went on to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that his father and oldest brother had set for him. ... Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Paul Robeson. ...

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He also finds out that Frank Green was Daphne's half brother and that her real name was Ruby Hanks. ... For example, when Coretta spoke to Easy about Daphne and the next morning she had been found murdered with a blow to the head. ... I found out later on that it was because Terell was threatening him; that he was going to tell the world that he was engaged to a woman who was half black. ...

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found that they could be even made up of friends she might otherwise consider level-headed and rational. ... Atticus had shielded her and her brother from any outward prejudice against blacks. ... Then she saw Tom Robinson found guilty, and saw him die as a consequence. ...

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Marcus Garvey was a man who seemed to have found dissatisfaction and frustration among millions of Negroes pushed northward during the World War 1. ... Garvey wanted to build or had plans to build an African-nation state. " The Universal Negro Improvement Association to have established in Africa that brotherly cooperation which will make the interests of the African native and the American and West Indian Negro one and the same." ... Woodson in 1915 founded the Study of Negro Life in Chicago. ...

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He met with his mother a few times as a very young boy, until her sick and untimely death, and was also separated from his brothers and sisters. ... His father found out, and told him if he didn't return to school that he would get a whipping. ... In conclusion, I found these narratives to be quite informative. ...

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It went racing, searching for blood, it found blood. ... Using the fingerprints found on the rifle and Galt's belongings, the FBI ran a crosscheck against known fugitives. ... The hunch paid off when Galt's fingerprints were found to match an escaped convict named James Earl Ray. The F.B.I investigators found Ray in London where he was plotting to rob a bank. ... The court found no evidence of his conspiracies and he returned to prison. ...

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Through my research, I have found Hughes" younger years the most influential for his life works. ... His mother and grandmother were the founding influences in Hughes" ideas for his later works. ... "I am the darker brother. ...

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He also read novels dealing with life in the American South, which he found "untrue and unreal." ... Despite Colonel Dye's attempts to keep them, Joe and Jane soon move to a ranch near the Texas-Louisiana border where Joe has found a job breaking horses. ... Timmy looks and acts more like Robert than does Tee Bob, and the two boys are close friends even though Robert and Miss Amma Dean still expect Timmy to be subservient to his brother since Timmy is black. ...

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Brother Logan Killicks, he's a good man.......You answer me when Ah speak. ... In her marriage to Logan, she found out that that's not what she wanted. ... Janie found what she was looking for. ...

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