Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... This factual information can easily be taught in a classroom or found in history textbooks, but class materials fail to portray the truly devastating personal and emotional effects that African-Americans endured in the harsh face of racism. Huck Finn perfectly captures the intense emotional agony Jim faces running ...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kennedy has written several books and other shorter works: almost all regarding to the promotion of equal rights for blacks and all people. ... Kennedy wisely begins the essay by using several emotional appeals in order to make his audience sympathize with him, and then goes on to use logical appeals to fully convince his readers that his argument is quite valid. By putting his emotional appeals first, it puts the readers in a sympathetic mood, and doing this can make the reader feel sorry for the writer and black community; therefore the reader may be more likely to agree with the logical ap...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass black woman, There Is Confusion (1924) were among the first books written by Blacks to be published. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate