Learning The Rules In the time of the Jim Crow South, the majority of white people displayed extreme ill will towards the black people. ... Wright is discussing how there was a set of rules for "Negroes" to live by. If one were to break a rule set by a white man, then he/she would be punished so he/she would learn not to break that rule again. ... All the black people of that time knew the rules set by the white people. ... After learning the rules of the Jim Crow South, a black person sets out into the world to try and find a job. ...

• Word Count: 973
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• Grade Level: High School

Law is a system of rules used to govern a society and control the behaviors of its members. ... According to Thoreau Henry David "The practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rules in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it." If majority of people are willing to follow t...

• Word Count: 700
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• Grade Level: High School

He addressed the fact that blacks would be forever mediocre without political equality, yet ignored the fact that the whites were the majority. He expected political equivalence yet refused to follow the initial democratic rule: majority rules. He instead isolated the majority, further delaying the labors of African-American rights activists. ...

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Growing up as a teenager, Melba Pattillo Beal's had to fight one of the most courageous wars in history. No, not a war that took place in the trenches of a battlefield, but a war that took place in the halls of an American high school "a war against color. Melba was one of nine black students."" War...

• Word Count: 555
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This rule forbids a lot of things to Negroes and blacks like white and black people swimming together or playing cards together. ... The majority of the black population moved north to the Northern states because there was more jobs and "freedom" for them there.Freedom was not the case though, there was still racism in the North although it was small in comparison to the racism in the South .The blacks had overcame all problems which had been thrown at them although this was just the beginning of it for them. ...

• Word Count: 627
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• Grade Level: High School

At that time it was an established rule for the blacks to give up their seats to the whites if whites were left standing and even if a row is sat by blacks, they would have to clear the row to let the whites sit even if it were just one white passenger. ... The bus company lost money because more than half of the bus riders had been African Americans and Blacks were the majority of the clientele of the buses accounting for 60% of the riders. ...

• Word Count: 757
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From 1866 to 1875, the south went through Congressional Reconstruction's period of harsh Radical Republican rule that was designed to punish white southerners for the consequences of the Civil War. ... Redeemers saw this as an opportunity to gain votes from some of the more moderate Republicans who were uncomfortable with black rule. ... Redeemers were given their name for the way they tried to redeem the South from Radical Republican rule. ... After the Vicksburg riots, leaders of the Democratic Party met in the capital and came up with a plan to end Republican rule in Mississippi once a...

• Word Count: 2285
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• Grade Level: High School

Most slave revolts occurred in the South, and the majority of Garvey organizational branches were in the South as well. ... In 1915 the Supreme Court ruled against the grandfather clauses that had kept blacks from voting in several states. ... In 1955 The supreme Court rules desegregation of public schools. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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• Grade Level: High School

As this poem reflects an analysis of internal and external observations of what is ruled and what really happens we can observe that it reflects on the structure of the poem. ... The main message of the poem is that even though Black Americans and the American majority claim to be separate (but equal) entities, each is actually a product of the other. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

As this poem reflects an analysis of internal and external observations of what is ruled and what really happens we can observe that it reflects on the structure of the poem. ... The main message of the poem is that even though Black Americans and the American majority claim to be separate (but equal) entities, each is actually a product of the other. ...

• Word Count: 1930
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• Grade Level: High School

Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. ... The vast majority of southern whites simply took it for granted that the black race would remain lesser than the white in every respect. ... The Southern white planters would determine the rules and regulations in the contracts. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

This belief emulates the beliefs of Aquinas and Paul and indicate that the minority Negro population will not suffer alone from the injustice of the majority society. ... He suggests that the colonists defending themselves against unfair and tyrannical rules broke such laws, but were considered freedom fighters and doing right. ...

• Word Count: 1396
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• Grade Level: High School

It can be caused by the imposition of certain rules and regulations forced upon a particular group of people, as was the case in both "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes, and "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. ... That feeling of oppression by the majority of the population sparked a fire in Hughes and pushed him to write this poem. ...

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Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. He is just one of the motivating start buttons to the movement that I think could have been written about a thousand times and still not cover the complexity of his heart, strength and ideas. I believe this is why I have chosen to do my report on him out of all the other justices to date. His life alone has brought about so many changes in social, racial, and political America that without his assistance today's world would not be, at all, as it is at this moment in time. The book I read was called D...

• Word Count: 4823
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• Grade Level: High School

The Supreme Court ruled that blacks could not vote in primary elections, and that seperate but equal facilities had to be equal. in 1954 the court stated that all public schools must be integrated. ... But the majority of the white middle class who believed in the equality of African Americans did not care strongly enough to do anything. ...

• Word Count: 1562
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By the year 2050, a huge majority of americans are expected to be biracial or minority (CNN). ... With the flow of immigration and the way people are becoming more open to diversity, many rules may change. ...

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One should fight for what they believe in, because if they do not, they will be fighting against themselves for all of eternity. However, fighting for what one believes is right is never easy. The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. Maycomb acti...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Grade Level: High School

(Carter, pg.21) In that same year, the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British rule. ... Black children in Nova Scotia and Ontario at this time were asked to name the Black person they admired the most and majority of the kids answers were Dr. ... In the prairies, the majority of Blacks who homesteaded did so in Alberta. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

agrees: "since the majority of R&B artists were black, and most radio station owners were white, many artists had difficulty getting their music on the air. ... It was very uncommon for slaves to have actual churches to attend because of harsh rules laid down by white authorities. ... Yet the majority of the artists were still white, and had no trouble finding radio stations to play their music and finding record labels to sign them. ...

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The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. ... As a nation we wanted to be free from British rule and be a country unto ourselves. ...

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A majority of these units are poorly maintained and often do not even seem livable. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...

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The vast majority of non-black people of that time believed that blacks were not equal to other races. ... Any court that rules only after considering the racial implications is not just, despite the trust many have placed in the judicial system. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American as...

• Word Count: 3205
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