She typed up what had happened to her on a big poster and stuck in the window of the store. ... A man named. ... Donleavy was in the middle of his speech when he started deciding what race got what heroes. " ..what school official in the white-goddom of Little Rock had the right to decide that those two men (Owens and Brown Bomber) must be our heroes?" ... I think this was a very big struggle because now she had to fight against her inner self. ... Patricia Williams and Maya Angelou have made it a little easier to deal with through their writings and civil right activism. ...

• Word Count: 594
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I chose this poem because in so little words it says so much. ... If the boy had been a grown man instead I don't think his readers would have had the same reaction because in that time period that incident was nothing out of the ordinary. It was common to hear of a black man experiencing that kind of discrimination and things far worse like lynching. ... It adds to the image of an innocent little boy. ... When I think of discrimination it rarely even crosses my mind that little children had to experience it too. ...

• Word Count: 617
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the movie, Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little. ... Malcolm bumped into a man named Archie who was a big time thief. ... Baines was a man everyone respected including the guards. He was know as the real man and gave speeches about Islam. ... The Black Muslims recruited heavily among the poorest of urban blacks and in prisons, where Malcolm Little was converted to the faith. ...

• Word Count: 891
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The loyalty, the big-toothy grin, the bellowing laughter, and the maternal love was just a big act that Mammies were forced to put on to please the white slave owners. ... She is a bigger African American woman. ... However, Mary Lou is first a little worried about Ivy, but quickly blows it off and states that she'll be just fine. ... A male Mammy is an African American man that dresses up to look like an exaggerated overweight African American woman and make themselves look "Mammy-like." This is seen in the characters Madea in the Tyler Perry films, Rasputia in Eddie Murphy's fi...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Once he was in the big city, a variety of things happened to him which made a big effect on his lifestyle. ... At an early age, he hears rumors about a white man beating a black boy and that fills his mind with questions about relations between white and black people. ... When Richard becomes a little older, he takes a few jobs that really opened his eyes towards seeing how blacks are treated. ... After seeing them, Richard feels like a civilized man from a big city. ...

• Word Count: 1035
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

And The Boys Harold' . . . and the Boys is about Hally, a white young man, and the damage done by apartheid and alcoholism. ... He wanted the little boy to be proud of something, proud of himself. ... Carrying on with this little man routine, Hally asks Sam to call him Master Harold. ... A beautiful big chamber-pot with roses on the side, and it's full to the brim with piss. ... He became the man who caused his pain. ...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A man who befriends her takes Beloved off somewhere to hide her. ... The big question for me would be if Beloved herself really existed when she came back into Sethe's life and were her two sons truly ghosts? ... Beloved is a child who suffers a little mental-retardation from lack of oxygen to the brain. ... When Denver went looking for a job, she didn't hesitate to ask a white man for directions. ... A man, I believe his name was Paul, came in and out of the picture to lend some support. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the 1930's in the little rural county of Maycomb where Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout live, during a time of racial discrimination. ... Robinson is falsely accused of having raped a white man's daughter. ... After being accused of rape, most of the people see Tom as an evil man. ... Another event that plays a big role in Lee's portrayal of unfairness is through Jem and Scout's maturations and adventures throughout the story. ... Tom Robinson is a black man who was found guilty of a rape he didn't commit. ...

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Director Joel Schumacher introduces the issue with traditional Southern States music and a big yellow pickup truck featuring a confederate flag and the definition of Southern States white males: two rednecks with mullets, tattoos and derelict clothing, or as I like to call them "yobbo's". ... The way little ten year old Tanya is portrayed is completely opposite to the way the yobbo's are. ... Cruel history blasted to us on the movie screen, dragging us into the inequities of the time and spitting us out with little left but thoughts of, "how could humans be so cruel." But ultimately,...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Then the movement took place when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a bus. ... King had a dream that little black boys and girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and girls. ... A big problem with racism is many live in racist conditions and don't even see it. ... Superiority is a big part of racism. ... Police got the call of a dead body and the man's torso was found first, right arm second. ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

A dark corner of history now has a little more light. ... Little, it seems a contradiction of terms for such a giant of a man, a man I never took the time to understand. ... A summer with his half sister, Ella Little, showed Malcom just what he was missing. ... It was the question, some argue, that changed Malcom Little's life forever. ... On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. ...

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

(King, 1994) The marriage complexity in her family was a big contribution to Maya's nightmare childhood. ... Once she revealed the identity of the man, he was found murdered a few days after by her uncle. ... (biography.com,2015) The Christian faith had a big impact on Angelou's values and ideals in society. ... She was aware of the power of her words since she was a little girl. ...

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. The laws and culture of the Jim Crow South make it possible for a jury to have full confidence that although a black man is innocent, he will still get convicted. ... Bob Ewell's morals are erroneous, and he is a mean and lowly man, but racism was something he believes in, and he is willing to stand by it, no matter the odds. ... Cal is taking a big risk by taking Jem and Scout to her churc...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin says little about his childhood, commenting only that "it is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the unrestrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again" (http://www.oceanrush.com/baldwin.html, pg. 1). ... At 14, his literary career was challenged by a new vocation when he became a junior minister at a Harlem storefront church, drawing crowds bigger than his stepfather's. ... The essay Stranger in the Village has been much collected; it reported on the author's unique experience of being the first black man encountered by a small Sw...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another warn from another Negro man is "If you walk past an alley, walk out in the middle of the street. ... That was sufficient reason for them to deny me those rights and freedoms without which life loses its significance and becomes a matter of little more than animal survival"(111-112), as Griffin explained how they judged him on his skin color. ... But the Negroes know that but they just are afraid to keep facing the whites, because they don't to cause bigger and bigger problems. ...

• Word Count: 2270
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Things would have been drastically different if he had heard the bearded guy in the back of the club get a big laugh from his buddies when he said, Why-oh-why is a honeypot like that sitting with a nigger?"... Consider this a little literary tip. ... "It's all right, man. ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

They used threats, burning and lynching to keep the black man in his place". ... Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. The law, jobs, political affairs and the mass media were still controlled by the white man. ... His desire to be excellent to show that African-Americans "could make it in the white man's world." was always present. ... Nine pupils had to be escorted by federal troops as they tried to enter Central High School in Little Rock. ...

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