Once upon a time when we were colored, is the story of young Clifton and his early life in Green Allan Mississippi. Clifton was born in 1946 from a young unmarried woman. His Great-grandparents took care of him, Poppa and Mama Pearl. Poppa was the center of Clifton's existence; he was not only his...
World War 2 World War 2 was the last big war for America, and it had many after effects towards our country. We entered the war after Pearl Harbor on December 8th, 1941, and ended it when Japan surrendered on August 14th, 1945. The time period may have been short, but our country was changed for...
Throughout World War II, seeds were being planted for the Civil Rights Movement. "Jim Crow" laws dominated the United States, and they dominated the battlefields of the war as well. As the war raged on and the battle against Nazi Germany was won, discrimination against non-white people became mor...
In the United States during World War II, citizens of Japanese origin were taken form their homes on the West Coast and moved to inland camps by our government because, after the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor, our government made a generalization abut the Japanese. ...
In 1851 the Mormon Church published another major literary work entitled the "Pearl Of Great Price"; it contained the Books of Moses and Abraham as translated by Joseph Smith. It wasn't until 1880 that the "Pearl of Great Price" became common Holy Scripture and was incorporated with the "Book of Mormon". ... The Pearl of Great Price was also used as a major literary device in maintaining ideas of African inferiority. ...
World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict, aside from the Civil War, to occur in the history of mankind. It was a war waged on land, sea and air that lasted for approximately six years. Cities lay in ruins due to aerial bombing and hometown battles, which spread destruction over l...
A Time of Change During the years of and following World War Two, there was a colossal shift that occurred in racial politics in the United States. The main change was in relations between African-Americans and White Americans. Chester Himes wrote If He Hollers Let Him Go, with the close-to-home ...
