In that story, Mike, a more seasoned mariner from Newark, New Jersey, strikes an African prostitute for spilling his drink in a waterfront bar in Senegal. A more youthful mariner, "The Little Virgin," who is a kind of protégé of the more seasoned man, unsettled by depression and a loss of group, assaults Mike. ... In the poem the landlord says that the man needs to pay him ten dollars. ... At that point the landlord will advise the police and get the man apprehended, saying that the man is testing the law. ... Fine Clothes to the Jew may remain in relationship to African American...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They both focus on education and eliminating discrimination; however, Washington encourages the African Americans to accept their inferiority and limits them to only common-schools, whereas Dubois insists that African Americans demand complete equality with Whites in all aspects of life, including higher education. ... Washington, born in 1856 to a slave mother and an unknown white man, faced many obstacles throughout his lifetime, which may have influenced his views on equality for African Americans (Harlan). ... He says that "Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season,...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Baseball is an all-American past time sport but what some don't know is when baseball first was invented in 1839 by a man name Abner Doubleday it was not designed to be segregated. ... It was in the alphabet book next to the letter "B", the first baseball club was organized in 1842 by a man named Alexander Cartwright. ... People try to bring to light of how baseball was a man's game for men all races; many felt that the sport would remain segregated as long as the club owners were made up of people who opposed integration. ... With all hard work and efforts that the blac...

• Word Count: 1398
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The labor workers were not benefiting from the increase in working demand in any way at all, as a result of the dramatic increase in production the workers and their families were suffering financially. As well as financially suffering, the workers health and over all well-being was being compromised a great deal. ... When farmers could not profit from their crops one season it would hurt them a great deal financially for the following season. ... However, Addams did see that the system needed improving and reconstruction to benefit all classes of society. ... Addams changed all of that fo...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate