A five-hour drive from Chicago on interstate 57 South will lead you to Southern Illinois. ... The African American students have labeled the indigenous residents "Carbonites." ... Most African Americans live on the Northeast and East sides of the town whereas most of the Whites live on the West and South sides respectively. ... Like many large agrarian African Americans families, we were part of the great exodus from the south. Some families settled near-south in areas like Southern Illinois while other families continued to places like Chicago and Detroit. ...

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"The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabella Wilkerson tells the story of the movement of over six million African American men and women from the southern states to northern states during the era known as the Great Migration. ... She chose these characters because each represented on of the three major streams of the Great Migration, the East coast, the Midwest and the West coast. ... They were able to gain more wealth than what they had while working for minimum wage in the South. ... If not for the Great Migration, many African American would not have the opportunities that we have been give...

• Word Count: 845
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• Grade Level: High School

The prejudices towards blacks throughout the north and south, forced them into a period of suffering and misery just as bad as slavery. ... Since most of the war had been fought in the south, all the cotton fields had been destroyed and they needed to be plowed and restored. ... This behavior was disgraceful for it portrayed African Americans as foolish and moronic. ... In this case, a 30-year-old black man named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the white car of the East Louisiana Railroad. ... Today, select schools in the south are segregated. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... Started by African-American intellectuals like Alain Locke, W.E.B. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender i...

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In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Anthologies from various West and East cost prisons, including Soledad, Falsom, Attica, and Norfolk also reflected the burgeoning consciousness and militance of the black inmate through works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays (Berkman, 1979). ... Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected children, or handled money carelessly. The convict lease system farmed black and a few white prisoners out to work in factories, mi...

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During the Mid 1900's in the south east, people began to depict the African American community as a whole. During this time, African Americans began to integrate into schools. ... The African Americans had always been banned from stores and schools where white people attended. ... Like in Sawyers case towns people in the communities took action against African Americans to get them away. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Blues was created at the tail end of the 19th century in the South region of the United States. ... So, technically Tupac was from the east coast, and originally has a strong New York accent that slowly faded. ... Like Many other blues singers that did Chicago Blues, Chester was born and raised in the South. ... Their lyrics described situations that were common in African American life. ... The STD and HIV/AIDs rate in the African American community is higher than any other race in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1900
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• Grade Level: High School

As one can see, African-Americans didn't have it easy trying to gain their civil rights. ... In recent years, a poll tax was to be paid in order for citizens to vote in the South. This kept most African-Americans from voting because they didn't have enough money to pay the tax. ... Although he spent most of his time outside of the United States traveling to such places as Africa and the Middle East, he did help out in the civil rights movement. ... In 1969, he moved to Africa where he changed his name to Kwame Turé, a named derived from two African leaders, Kwame Nkrumah o...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School