One of the leading members of the society was a teacher at Princeton (and later President) Woodrow Wilson who was adamantly against the desegregation of schools. ... This educational escapade would also set the foundation for how Paul later in his life whenever faced with adversity was able to overcome it and do it with grace and humility. ... While in Grammar school he also took a keen liking to sports, which would later lead to a college sports career and brief career playing professionally. ... At first when I started to read this book I wasn't at all interested in it, I was merely rea...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was when Maya returned to live with her grandmother that she discovered reading, great literature and the endless possibilities of her creativity. ... She later met the renowned African American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey with whom she formed the unsuccessful dance team ˜Al and Rita'. ... Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana while Guy attended the University. ... A few years later, at the request of Mar...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Uncovering the truth regarding a sensitive time in history can be accomplished through reading novels often deemed controversial, in this case, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. ... Through reading this novel, students can further understand the deep rooted racial segregation between black and white Southerners, and the absurdity of the laws the deep South enforced against African-Americans. ... My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, ˜Let up on me "it ain't too late yet "I'll paddle ashore at the first lig...

• Word Count: 2046
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, he states how Morgan's acquisition of Carnegie and Rockefeller's industrial empires combined would eventually set the stage for financiers to truly control the power of the industries and, along with the rise of poverty in large urban areas & the anger of the discontent rural population, would contribute to the later populist and silverist movements. ... What I found most interesting while reading The Reckless Decade was the way Brands described the political battles between Bryan and McKinley leading up to the 1896 presidential election. ...

• Word Count: 504
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This rapid growth meant tens of millions more readers "and colleges and universities began to encourage the reading of writers and literary movements outside of "the canon- that had been established decades before. ... The interstate highways that spread across the continent in the late 1960s, the electronic media that by the mid-1950s could bounce television and radio signals from coast to coast, brought on waves of consolidation and conformity in popular and literary culture: the same TV shows, music, food, consumer goods, and housing. ...

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Wright Mills said "The Sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography"(the reading page 5 b). ... Most of the public schooling does not have books less teachers the class are so big and that the teachers can't teach the student they have old books and they don't have updated books so when the black kids take the sat they are not prepared because the lack of resources available to them and s o do poor on the sat and later on they are criteria for doing bad on the test. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in 1944, ETS was chartered and the SAT was en route to becoming the standard college admissions tool for universities across the nation, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.1). ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reading African American literature ranging from spirituals and slave narratives, to works written during and after the Civil Rights Movement provides readers and scholars with a rare insight into the minds and lives of African Americans at that time. Much of African American literature is realistic in nature, meaning that it tends to be about their personal experiences, especially the later works; therefore, readers are able to experience firsthand the struggles that African American people faced on a daily basis. ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... Africans and their descendants have been an essential part of the story of America since the late 1400s. ...

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Segregation came later, which is the biggest fracture with in the logic of the Americanization debates – so many just say if you're a natural-born citizen, you're fine, yet why were black people treated like second citizens? ... While reading the first two chapters, the reader becomes enraptured by the culture of the Yankton Sioux. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate