Many older, more traditional Americans believed this new music to be a bad influence on the young generation. ... This was caused by the large gathering of black writers, musicians, and artists in Harlem, NY. ... Zora Neale Hurston was not a poet but an African American novelist, traveled around the South in her old car collecting stories, songs, and prayers of black southerners which she published in the book Mules and Men. ...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

" It is a short story about a 17-year-old African American young man who wants to be treated like he is a real man, except others think of him as a slave or underdog. ... Invisible was called to make a speech at a gathering where all of the top people in town were going to be. ... That changes when he arrives at the hotel where the event is happening; he is suddenly pushed into a ring with other men to fight. While fighting, all of the important white men in town wanted him to get hurt. ... All the white men who attended didn't pay attention to him and were very disrespectful. ...

• Word Count: 1099
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to white woman. ... And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. ... (pp. 165-66) During the next few years, he would travel all over the world gathering support...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He is one of seven men-- called the Seven Days--who kill random European Americans in retaliation for murders of African Americans. ... Officials from the hospital came out cautiously when they realized the gathering wasn't some sort of racial uplift demonstration. ... It means he doesn't have to go collect rents, which he always felt lowered his dignity, and frees him up to plan and visit the bank men. ... He has a meeting planned with six old men. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In fact, Professor John Burgess, the founder of Columbia University graduate school of Political Science and an important figure in American scholarship defined the African race as "a race of men which has never created any civilization of any kind..." ... It is not uncommon, during these weeks in February, for African students in the U.S. to receive a number of invitations to speak at gatherings, schools and in community churches. ... He was a gifted student who became a reporter for the New York Globe when he was 15 years old. ...

• Word Count: 3305
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School