Being ranked fifth as one of the most challenged books in the 1990s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, can definitely be considered a very controversial novel (Huckleberry 1). ... They can enjoy the fact that the novel is about real life situations, and they read the book for its contents. They believe that a novel is evaluated by the quality of its plot, and that any language enhances the understanding of the time and social period in which the novel takes place (Hartford 1-4). ... The committee of the library at the time, who were very well educated, and had a somewhat high...

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Thesis Statement: Langston Hughes was an author and a poet and a musician before his time by overcoming family adversity and racial hardships. ... Begins Publishing Books a. ... Collaborated together on Troubled Island, based on the life of Jean Jacques Dessalines of Haiti VIII. ... The last ten years of Hughes life were marked by an astonishing proliferation of books. 1. ...

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During this time, many women were changing customary ways. ... Yet at the same time, she always made herself heard. ... Her life as a singly mother also affected her writing. ... Another aspect of life that Nikki had great influence on was politics. ... Her central ideas of all of these books are about black pride. ...

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I remember one time going to work with my mom I think in Evanston, Ill. ... What do you remember about that time? ... We were conditioned to live the life that was deal to us and we accepted it. ... They both did it their own way risking their life for a change they both believed was the right thing to do. ... In my school we never good new books for school. ...

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I"d sell my life for that gun Ain't s"pose to hunt with. ... A book report inside on the rare text books read: " Chronological Issue Condition Race of Student 1 NEW White 6 GOOD White 12 VERY POOR nirgro " Once the books had reached a "very poor" condition, they were eventually donated. Also in the book, every time a "white" entry is written under the race of student, a capital "W" is used. ... Cassie then apologise four times, each time more humiliating than the last. ... As I mentioned before, poor books were given to the black students. ...

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The most influential person in her life was her grandmother. ... As time went on she became more involved in church, and religious activities. ... She would read books about black history, religion and love. When she becomes old enough to date boys she begins to read books about pornography, not knowing that these books were not fit for a girl her age. ... She opens her personal life to her readers every step of the way. ...

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By saying this, the ex-colored man can live his life free of fear from the white man and lead a better life than a black would. ... Many influences give the idea onto the character, that in order to be successful in life you must be white. ... I mean would anyone want to go through what the blacks went through during this time if you could pass of as a white man. ... The ex-colored man tries his new white way of life as an experiment, a trip into unknown territory. ... "There were two immediate reasons of my forced loneliness; I began to find company in books and greater pleasure in music...

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W.E.B. was also a great public speaker who wrote amazing books. ... Booker T. thought that since blacks had been doing labor for such a long time it was good for them to learn their ancester's work. W.E.B. wrote great books about black problems in America. ... Booker T. grew up a slave and thought that since blacks were forced to do that work, when they chose to do it they would earn the white mans respect, and make a better life for their children. ... There he saw plenty discrimination, and he decided to devote his life to stopping it. ...

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They are solely under the control of the higher forces that they work for who make the workers work harder and faster for a longer period of time. ... Another way he was alienated from human nature was when he would read books at work. ... They didn't think blacks had any business learning from books. He became so embarrassed that he started hiding his books in newspaper so no one could see them. ... He was alienated from what he could gain from his work, how he worked, what he chose to do with his life and mind, and how he interacted with other human beings. ...

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To understand Langston Hughes, the reader must first understand the time-period he wrote in, and the movement he was a part of. ... Up until this point in the young author's life Hughes spent the majority of his life in the mid-west United States. ... Hughes wrote about the many aspects of African American life. Langston Hughes loved writing so much he wrote in many different styles not just books or magazines. ... Ironically they influenced people around the same time period and from the same region. ...

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Once upon a time when we were colored, is the story of young Clifton and his early life in Green Allan Mississippi. ... Glen Allan's community nurtured and protected each other, looking to enjoy life as much as possible. ... Clifton's extended family played a big role in his life; they all encourage hem to educate himself and be somebody. ... He has people encouraging him all the time; Ms. Mayberry supported him with books and pushed education on him to better his future. ...

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The two books were the first works by an African American to be published by a major publishing house. ... He was a strong voice against the disfranchisement of African Americans, the showing of racist movies such as "The Birth of The Nation" and the publication of books denigrating African Americans. ... For a time the Eastern Railroad company refused to allow its trains to stop in Lynn because Douglass insisted on riding in the White section and made trouble if anyone tried to stop him. After the publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by himself and his ...

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Of Mice and Men In terms of emotional stability, there is only one thing in life that is needs and that is friends. ... Spends all his time sayin" what he's gonna do to guys he don't like and he don't like nobody... Throughout the books, he's worrying that he will be seen as being useless like his dog. ... This ol" dog jus" suffers hisself all the time. ...

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Griffin is a white reporter who temporarily colors his skin black so that he may understand the life of a southern Negro. ... Each time they refused me, they implied clearly that I had probably come by these checks dishonestly and they wanted nothing to do with them or with me"(P.52). ... One can look at hundreds of articles, read thousands of books, but they"ll never truly know what life was like for a Negro in the South. ... The controversy, truth, and experiences make Black Like Me one of the best books known to mankind. ...

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Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to produce a wide variety of fine and highly original works dealing with African-American life. ... Poets and other literary writers published several of articles, poems, and books, which extended and embraced the transformed identity of African-Americans. ... James Van Der Zee (1889-1983) was the most popular African-American photographer of that time. ... For 60 years, working in obscurity, he made a visual record of Harlem life unsurpassed in scope and detail. ....

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A man of great poetry once lived a long time ago. ... What did his poems mean and how did his poems affect his life? ... Mary Langston always inspired Langston to read books there on he fell for poetry. ... As time goes on, Langston traveled with many black writers to the Soviet Union. ... In the times of Langston life he experience racism. ...

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At the earliest moments of his life, he was a laborer, cleaning the yards, carrying water, and taking corn to the mills. ... Washington remembers his new life in West Virginia. ... Washington's life experience's taught him that everything has a time and a place. ... In many ways, I think he felt it was more important to have food on your table rather than books in your hands. ... Du Bois's research into the historical and sociological conditions of black Americans made him the most influential black intellectual of his time. ...

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Malveaux thinks that black life and history are not represented enough in newspapers, TV and history books. ... It has become a tradition and it is a good time to explore a famous black historical figure. ...

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His grandmother was the first black women to attend Oberlin College, in Ohio, and bestowed the values of reading books and education. ... It was around this time (1926) that he published a collection of poems called "Weary Day Blues." ... This time period is also a time of blossoming creativity of among young African-American artists, musicians and writers. ... Later in his life he got involved in Drama. ... He continued to write poetry throughout the remainder of his life, and by the 1960's he was know and acknowledged as "Dean of Negro Writers". ...

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His life has been a changing cycle through multiple philosophy and beliefs. ... And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... During this transitional point in his life he wrote two books of serious fiction " The System of Dante's Hell", a novel, and "Tale", a collection of short stories. Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benston, published in Boundary 2: "I was really writing defensively. ... Baraka comments about this time in his life " We hated white people so publicly for on reason, because we had ...

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They would describe the troubles and hardships that their ancestors had to face over the course of this country's life. ... Recently there has been a dramatic increase in class time devoted to events and issues dealing with minorities, and on learning what views minorities have on these topics. ... Books, articles, and movies written and produced by minorities have found their way into classrooms. ... They only wanted their way of life to be present. Anything that was not considered how a white person would live their life was considered wrong, and was not accepted. ...

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Many blacks and other ethnic people have been segregated though time and time has dealt them the bad hand. ... Ever since the NAACP has started, they have worked furiously in trying to bring new and equal books and tools into the schools and on top of that, bring races together in schools to have mutual understandings of one another. Through slavery times and the age of change for African Americans (Martin Luther King Jr. time) the NAACP has persevered and brought much equality to schools and greatly equalized the education given by the USA. ... Their efforts have paid off in that now there i...

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The 14th Amendment has been the law of the land since mid 19th century but sadly enough it had only been the theory and had hardly been enforced until some time through the civil rights movement. ... One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that "You can't ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks ) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated "separate but equal" had been the laws on the books, but law...

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Many text books, and books for that matter, show some pain and struggling from non-European cultures; the books rarely tell a story of the pain they felt daily. ... As Quincy said language is like a body, renew it and make it better, as language is life. ... As Leslie Marmon Silko believed, along with most Native-Americans, history is not distant but all around your daily life; it is something that is not linear but all encompassing. ... To really engage upon the true meanings of words from different cultures, one must know the time and place that the meaning is coming from, and understan...

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During the time that Maya was growing up, America was just recovering from the Great Depression and it was also a time when African Americans were oppressed. ... Throughout her life, Maya kept a journal of her life experiences and began taking those thoughts, writing a series of autobiographies. ... This first volume covered Maya's life experiences from the ages three to sixteen. ... I can go on writing about Maya and her life experiences for pages on end. ... I have absolutely enjoyed researching her and life experiences, and also found myself intrigued enough to buy a few of her books. ...

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