When his grandma died he went to live with his Aunt Reed. ... The letter said he wanted him to stay with him in the summer in Mexico. This made his mom really angry she said that it was just like his devilish, evil father to take him away from her as soon as he got big enough to help her and work to take him away from her.That summer in Mexico was the most miserable Langston had ever been. ... Langston didn't do much that summer except read books, ride his horse, felt lonely and wrote poems. ... On May 22, 1967, Hughes died in New York City at the age of 65 from prostate cancer. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Another son born two years earlier had died. ... When Langston was twelve years old his grandmother died, and he went to live with some family and friends. ... Academically and socially, Langston did well in Lincoln, The summer before he started high school, Langston and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... Now he wanted Langston to join him for the summer. ... On Smith 6 May 22, 1967, Hughes died at the age of sixty-five. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To The White Fiends was written in 1922, when whites and blacks were in violent race conflicts in cities, this was referred to as "Red Summer". ... In Bondage was also written in 1922, during the grim setting "Red Summer" like the poem To White The Fiends. ... Given that these were written during "Red Summer" it seemed like he wanted African Americans to fight with pride and not violence in the poem To The White Fiends. ... This period of "Red Summer" was brutal on both sides, the hate was in full bloom and many died because of it. ...

• Word Count: 1452
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His mother had died during the summer he had left Fisk and Du Bois entered a world that he would claim for his own. ... Through these and other encounters with racial hatred, as well as through his experience teaching in poor black communities in rural Tennessee during the summers, Du Bois began to develop his racial consciousness and the desire to help improve conditions for all blacks. ...

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She died in Boston, Massachusetts as a result of childbirth in December 1784. ... When Mason died in 1891, she was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights. ... Just invited Young to work with him during the summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, starting in 1927. ... She eventually returned to Howard to teach and continued working at Woods Hole in the summers, but her relationship with Just cooled considerably. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. He was born August 2, 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones. Baldwin's mother never told him the name of his biological father. Emma Jones left Baldwin's father when Baldwin was a young child because of his father's us...

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His grandfather died during the insurrection at Harpers Ferry. ... James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. ... He died from congestive heart failure in the Polyclinic Hospital in New York City. ... "My writing has been largely with the depicting of Negro life in America," Hughes said before the day he died. ...

• Word Count: 1559
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• Grade Level: High School

"The Man Who Was Almost a Man,"" (1940) is a short story written by Richard Wright which tells about a young African-American boy Dave's entrance to the manhood. The story deals with how a young black boy defines power with the wrong impressions given by society and how he use this power to escape f...

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• Has Bibliography
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DuBois spent two summers teaching at a county school in the south while attending Fisk in order to learn more about the South and his people. ... A few months later on August 27, 1963, DuBois died of natural causes (Hynes). ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. ...

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Finally, in the summer of 1862, with the realization that the war would not be won without the end of slavery, Lincoln drew up the Emancipation Proclamation (Fincher). ... Nearly twice as many African Americans died of diseases on the battlefield then the white soldiers (Ward 253). ... Though the casualties were many the bravery of the black men who died in this bloodbath was apparent. ...

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In the final section of the novel, Claudia remembers seeing Pecola searching the garbage after the baby was born prematurely and died and she became insane. ... She recalls her childhood memories that she and her sister Frieda blame each other for the unsuccessful attempt to grow marigolds that summer. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". ... During the summer of the year 1961 some groups of black and white students went with their busses from the North to the South. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School