His father was not happy with the way African Americans were being treated so he moved to Mexico. ... When the Great War in Europe had begun, Langston's mother sent for him to come live with her. ... The letter said he wanted him to stay with him in the summer in Mexico. ... There was not much to do in Mexico and he began to hate it. ... He knew if he didn't go to Mexico he would probably never attend college. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Coraghessan Boyle is about two Mexican immigrants who come to America to be free. One of the Mexican immigrants, Candido, gets hit by the car of a white man. ... America is a seventeen-year-old Mexican girl who, through the eyes of Candido, appears to be nave but is actually a very strong individual. ... She is like Rosa Parks during the civil war movement. ... Boyle portrays America as an African American during the civil war movement. ...

• Word Count: 1023
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• Grade Level: High School

He grew up in a small Mid-western town in Kansas during the quiet years before World War 1. ... His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. ... After graduation he spent a year in Mexico and a year in Columbia University. ...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. ... After graduating from high school, Hughes planned to return to Mexico to visit with his father, in order to try to convince him that he should pay for his son's college education at Columbia University in New York City. ... On his way to Mexico on the train, while thinking about his past and his future, Hughes wrote the famous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." After arriving in Mexico, the tension between Hughes and his father was strong. ... He traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Haiti,...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some examples of this are the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, the use of minorities for hard labor at low wages, and especially the lynching of black Americans in the south. ... Today and in Southern California, Mexicans suffer from discrimination, similar to what others have faced before. ...

• Word Count: 396
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Seasons The novel is divided into four seasons, but it pointedly refu...

• Word Count: 384
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

His father, who had studied to become a lawyer, left for Mexico shortly after the baby was born. ... After graduation, he went to Mexico to visit his father, who agreed to pay for his college education. ... His historical paintings include the Migration Series, Harlem Series, The South Series, and War Series. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the age of seventeen, Hughes traveled to Mexico to visit his father. He saw that the Mexican people took great pride in their identity through their art. ... The civil war had taken place roughly 40 years before and there were still a vast number of white people who looked upon black people as slaves. ...

• Word Count: 1190
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After a conflict-filled visit with his father in Mexico, "Langston Hughes returned and began writing poetry of distinction" (Hughes 1). ... As stated by Rummel, " He joined the Writers War Board, penning articles for newspapers, composing lyrics with W.C. Handy and Clarence Muse for war blues, sung at rallies- (99). Through constantly writing about his country he almost felt morally obligated to help with the war effort even if in a small way as he did. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

Hughes" father, being frustrated with job opportunities, moved to Mexico when his son was not even two years-old. ... During the 1930s, while World War II was in progress, Hughes" main concern was writing about world issues in his commitment to racial justice (Bloom 125). He encouraged the Black Americans to support the war efforts and encouraged the government to give to its own citizens what they were advocating abroad (Harper 3). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. ... These conflicts and the beginning of World Trade, the United States and its rise in power resulted in a World War. Although the government claimed to want to stay neutral we eventually ended up right in the middle of World War I. ... Our participation in the war changed everything for the United States. ... Many were isolated in ghettos (African Americans) and barrios (Mexican Americans) and left with very little income or access to things like electricity and decent jobs. ...

• Word Count: 2136
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His parents divorced when he was a small child and his father moved to Mexico. ... Following graduation from high school in 1920, Hughes spent a year in Mexico with his father and a year at Columbia University. ... Perhaps Hughes's finest literary achievement came during World War II in the course of writing a weekly column in the Chicago Defender that began in 1942 and lasted twenty years. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"I promise you I wrote it. I can't tell you more, but read the book, and the piece in the last September's Reader's Digest and you"ll know who I really am" (Griffin, 37). In the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, he tells about his experience as a white man that changes his pigmentation of...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... Mexican people went to church on Sunday evenings instead of Sunday mornings with the other members of the community. To show my disagreement with the situation I went to church with the Mexican people on Sunday evening instead of going together with my family. ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
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• Grade Level: High School

The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. Even at this country's birth, its Founding Fathers incorporated the Three-Fifths Compromise, ending a dispute over slaves" votes, into the United States" very Const...

• Word Count: 3013
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• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School