Therefore, this left the states little room to push the freed slaves back into submission. ... Since the states knew that they could not prevent the freed slaves from voting. ... This is evident in the book immediately following the robbery and murder of Mrs. ... While on a much lighter note, the third and final demonstration of discrimination and hatred towards the black community of Wilmington (Wellington), the separate car rule, allows us to see the concept of de jure segregation in action. ... During this particular scene of the book, he was asked to end his conversation with Dr. ...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cynthia Davis notes that, "All of Morrison's characters exist in a world defined by its blackness and by the surrounding white society that both violates and denies it (Davis 217)." ... Playing on his slave's ignorance, a white slave owner gives the freed slave not the promised valley "Bottom" land, but hilly land that he claims is "the bottom of heaven (Morrison 5)." ... In anguish and uncertainty over the unfamiliar setting around him and his own lost identity, Shadrack begins to cry on a curbside and is picked up by the police and promptly booked for "vagrancy and intoxication," s...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... In this sense no one is free to choose his own destiny and ultimately no one is truly "saved."" ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on ...

• Word Count: 3584
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate