a riot in Harlem in 1935 "set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community "shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro. ... For example "Mother to Son- the mother says "So boy don't you turn back, don't set you down on the steps cause you find its kinder harder, don't you fall now-. ... In many of Langston Hughes poetry, nature serves as a strong symbol for triumphs and defeat of the soul. ... Nature serves as a s...

• Word Count: 1518
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To serve the cause of human freedom, a person has to be brave, a leader, patient and unselfish. ... Washington contributed so much to society to serve the cause of human freedom. ... His management declined as whites set up laws to keep all African American's from voting and mixing socially in places like schools and restaurants. ... To serve the cause of human freedom, one must gain the respect of his people and encourage them with positive ideas. ...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. Hitler had been defeated indefinitely. Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. However, not all of the changes were bad, some were good, but they were changes that affected America in terms of social, economic...

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"... the pious missionary wanders off to central Africa and sets up Negro missions until there, too, out "higher culture" turns healthy, though inferior and primitive, human beings into rotten brood of bastards." ... Until German men have served in the German army, they are not true citizens, but only subjects. ... This changes when men serve in the army and women marry. ...

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In many ways, Hughes sets the standard for this distinctive mark. ... Hughes' use of this Blues aesthetic serves several functions: it brings an active quality to the complexities of pain and it allows a reality of human understanding to come alive in his poetry. ...

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In Virginia, he saw an elderly woman who had to wear an iron muzzle on her face and in Montserrat he knew of a man who tried to escape his master's bondage, but was caught and covered in sealing wax then set on fire. ... In the end, he served his purpose of informing readers of the inhumane trafficking and brutal treatment of slaves and free blacks....

• Word Count: 678
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The father seeing his brittle and weak girl in the hospital decided that justice was not served. ... If there are rules set in court they should be placed on every individual, and not every race. ... So he put his career on the line to defend Carl Lee and he proved that justice was truly, and genuwinly served. ...

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Also by being a general of the army he is forced to become detached from the men who serve under him. ... Aaron is a slave who serves the queen of the Goths. ... However the newly elected emperor sets them all free when he decides to take Tamora for his bride. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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Also by being a general of the army he is forced to become detached from the men who serve under him. ... Aaron is a slave who serves the queen of the Goths. ... However the newly elected emperor sets them all free when he decides to take Tamora for his bride. ...

• Word Count: 1882
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He served on the Court for 24 years until June 28th, 1991 when he announced his retirement due to advancing age and deteriorating health. ... Before serving on the Supreme Court, Marshall served as a legal director of the NAACP. ...

• Word Count: 4823
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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841-1898) was the first African-American who served a full term in the U.S. ... Bruce was a Republican senator representing Mississippi; he served from March 5, 1875 until March 3, 1881. ...

• Word Count: 3305
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Even Highly educated blacks ere routinely denied the right to vote or serve on juries. ... Soon it was obvious to the owners of the bus company and to the white community that the Blacks were not going to ride the buses unless their terms were met They wanted only three things: courteous treatment from drivers; seating on a first-come, first-served basis, and the employment of Black bus drivers. ... As King set out to build his new organization, the SCLC, his aims were to expand his network of supporters, and to learn more about planning protests. ...

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Imagine being locked all alone in the back of a jailhouse for something that you did not do and knowing the exact day and way you were doing to die. Well, that was how it was for Jefferson, a 21-year-old black man, or in the judge's case a "hog," who was innocent just in the wrong plac...

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"Asserting one's self over slaves was a way of declaring power over another group of people and could serve as a way to feel more significant to plantation life" (Moore). ... Flint's plan to set Brent up in a little cottage, where she will only do light work like sewing is actually a trap to keep Brent out of the public eye, where the potential for neighborly condemnation of Dr. ...

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The same is true for some white indentured servants but at least with the whites most of the time they were set free and able to take land ownership. ... But the third runaway received the most severe punishment shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural Life here or elsewhere " (55). ...

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On hearing about a major news event, millions of Americans then turn to their television sets or radio to learn more". ... Thomas Jefferson had strong feelings about the press: "Newspapers serve to carry off noxious vapors and smoke" and later, "Nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper". ...

• Word Count: 1085
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Ernest James Gaines is one of the most important African American authors of this century. (Benet's 365) He succeeds as a writer as well as a college English Professor at University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1983. Gaines was born on January 15, 1933 in Oscar Louisiana. He had a hard childhood whi...

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This coined the phrase "Separate but equal" and set the way of life for almost the next sixty years. ... On February 1, 1960, four black college students from North Carolina A&T University began protesting racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at "white only" lunch counters and waiting to be served. ...

• Word Count: 1907
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Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live her life. She searched to find a peace that made her whole and made her feel like a complete person. To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she was not like everyone else. In Their Eyes Were Watchin...

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The utopian society I am proposing is just that, a fictional society in which I set the rules. ... Rawls three basic features for liberal people are "a reasonably just constitutional democratic government that serves their fundamental interests, citizens united by what Mill called "common sympathies", and finally, a moral nature". ...

• Word Count: 2007
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Pre-college Education The inequality in the college preparation of black Americans can potentially serve to restrict their access to college by limiting pre-college academic programs and resources. ... Diseducation 5 Pre-college education for the black male, for the most part, is set up for him to fail. ...

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. She believed that through finding God in one's life, salvation and mercy would follow. She...

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Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... Two of the men were members in hate-clubs or white supremacist groups and all three had served time in jail for other violations. ...

• Word Count: 1892
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Making Race and Nation In the book Making Race and Nation by Anthony Marx, he compares the development of three different countries which were major active members in the slave trade late into there development and into the modern era.. Marx compares South Africa, Brazil and The United State...

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"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and hig...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: High School