He started High School at the age of 18. ... As a Christian, he fighting for freedom for all people, all of God's created beings. ... Malcolm grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of violence done by people claiming to be religious (white Christians). ... In grade school, he also encountered a lot of racist people. (pp.121) When Malcolm was in his younger ages, he used to be a bad young Christian. ...

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One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... Before the movement there were completely separate schools for blacks and whites. The black schools were usually just old run down homes in the middle of nowhere. After integration the blacks were allowed admission into the previously all white schools. ... The Southern Christian Leadership Conference would have never been founded, and school integration may have never succeeded to the degree that it did. ...

• Word Count: 765
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I know this because she tells Dill, Scout and Jem that "We"re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us." ... They are very vindictive as they are supposed to be part of the Missionary Tea Society, which is supposed to be very Christian like. ... And when she announces that she doesn't like school, Atticus, makes a compromise, that if she goes to school, then he will carry on reading to her at night, just like they always have. This shows how close they actually are; because most people would just tell their children straig...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ann and attended elementary school there also (Winnick). ... Everybody believes that revenge is God's, but at the same time 3 we are men, and revenge sometimes springs up, even in the most Christian heart. ... Not only by God, but even in the most "Christian heart" revenge sometime "springs up", even in man. Is he saying that even in the most "Christian heart" it is ok to seek revenge? ...

• Word Count: 1240
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• Grade Level: High School

During this time Baldwin attended Frederick Douglas Junior High School and DeWitt Clinton High School. During his school years, Baldwin won several awards for his writings. The joy that he felt from having others praise his work was overshadowed, however, by his father's disapproval of his non-Christian-oriented writing. James Baldwin's father was a very religious Christian who forced the church on young James. ... With a high school diploma under his belt James Baldwin moved to New Jersey and began working as a railroad hand. ...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. ... Schools, the workplace, our community, our friend's house, even our homes. ... No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous teacher. These two boys made it clear, that they hated blacks, Christians, athletes and foreign people (O"Donnell). They killed a black for his color and a Christian for saying that she believed in God. ...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: High School

For example, in the Catholic Church people adore (not worship) the Virgin Mary while in a Christian church, they don't. ... Board of Education, because it ruled in favor of Brown making schools desegregated (Remy). ...

• Word Count: 559
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• Grade Level: High School

This is just another shameful part of America's history that was minimized and hardly taught to most children in grade school or high school. ... Not only did the Europeans bring germs and disease, they brought Christian based ideas and enforced a male dominant way of life. Many Native Americans were forced to abandon and reject their traditional beliefs to become Christians. ...

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The Separate but equal" decision of 1896 confirmed the segregation in the South and soon everything was being segregated, the churches, schools, restaurants, even the toilets. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... King set about organising the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operation throughout th...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ... SCLC's motto was "to redeem the soul of America- that reflected both its Christian orientation...

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Henry set up a school for sailors to learn the secrets of the ocean. ... David Livingstone Africa has more than 250 million Christians, making Christianity the second most prevalent faith on the continent. Africans learned of the faith through devout Christians who traveled to Africa on a mission to teach their religion. ...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Another women by the name of Claudette Colvin who was the age of 15 in high school was also handcuffed and taken to jail. ... Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). ... The NAACP has stuck with its goal to promote racial separatism.2 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) i...

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Washington High School". ... At seventeen, King decided to become a pastor in order to better influence people in social changes and to promote Christian ideals. ... In September 1951 King entered the University's School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Amongst them was Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a most influential and widespread organization. ...

• Word Count: 4457
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• Has Bibliography
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This representative of how Ruth and James McBride were accepted as Christians solely, therefore avoiding any difficulties having to do with race, at least when speaking about it with religion. ... James encounters racism in school, where everyone thought that he could dance. ... Also, another incident in school is when James was called a, "nigger," and everyone in the classroom laughed. ...

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

This is where the school of thought that the "white man's floor is the black man's ceiling" comes from. ... This group was made up exclusively of whites, and did not just persecute blacks; it was against any non-white, and non-Christian, such as Jews. ...

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The Cunninghams send their children to school, as apposed to keeping them home to work in the field, and refuse to accept welfare or help from the town. ... The children only attend school on the first day. ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and other ultra-right wing groups prior to his run for the Presidency in 2000. ...

• Word Count: 1892
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When Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old high school student was arrested on March 2, 1955, and later found guilty for not relinquishing her seat (one that was reserved for black passengers) to a white person, the black community of Montgomery was outraged. ... I envy their unity, their good humor, their fortitude, and their willing ness to suffer for great Christian and democratic principles or just plain decent treatment" [p.103]. ...

• Word Count: 1946
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In seventh grade black students at my school began wearing t-shirts with "Malcom and Martin" printed on them, I did not know who Malcom was. ... He was also the only black in the neighborhood and school. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School