In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... In his book Du Bois says, "A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers But say to a people: "The one virtue is to be white," and the people rush to the inevitable conclusion, "Kill the 'nigger'!... Stand out amongst the crowd with passion and pride. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand it is a good example for people; because they can take the advice from this book and learn how fight all these troubles that life has created. ... When Margarite listens song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson's she prides for black people because they also can have all opportunities to reach their goals and to be the part of "the wonderful, beautiful Negro race" (156). ... She does not give up and "fights" with racist hiring policies in San Francisco to get her first real job as streetcar conductor "The Black female is assaulted in her tender year...

• Word Count: 1584
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A book can be the window to a whole new world. ... Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... An argument over gambling with a man named West Indian Archie sent Malcom out of town, if he had stayed one or both of the men could have lost not only their pride but also their lives. ...

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