Angelou begins her story by describing the pure excitement and anticipation that the town of Stamps, Arkansas felt surrounding the graduation. ... Moreover, Angelou lists a variety of examples that display how the town and her family were elated for the graduation. ... Angelou professes, "The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galilieos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Gaugins, and our boys (the girls weren't even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises" (28). ... Angelou begins her narrative when describing the elation that the town Stamps, Arkans...

• Word Count: 1074
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. ... A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan returning to the area. As the situation escalates, the national guard is called into town, while everybody is awaiting the trial jury's decision. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... When the klansmen ar...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences than others, and police and any other authorities do keep this in mind while on duty, not because they are racists, but for the better safety of our town and country. ...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. It was difficult for white people within the towns to grasp the notion that a black man had the capability of riding a horse on his own. ... There is no way we will be able to combat the issue of racism in our country, if we continue to allow the use of objects such as the Confederate flag, which still carries a significant racist connotation. ... If we gave more sufficient opportunities to members of disadvantaged groups who suffer from discrimination within American culture, we would come to ...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discrimination has always been a large part of our society. ... The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... It is evident through these percentages that racial inequalities exist in the core of our judicial system. ... Our current state of affairs should focus on police brutality and to what extent their power should give them. ... A prime example of the problems racial profiling conveys to our citizen is in the case of Amadou ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their collective efforts not only established this new African-American identity, but also contributed to the development of our modern American culture. ... In his town of birth, Wide Water, Virginia, he was often referred to as a self trained artist. ...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Our country is no stranger to riots that cause major civil disturbances, which often result in thousands of dollars in damages and mass amounts of both injuries and casualties. Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and resentment between two races, while the riots in Ferguson erupted out of resentment for th...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Early Monday morning, 21st of March 1960, Africans throughout the nation gathered within their towns at the request of Robert Sobukwe, the PAC leader, to protest against the pass laws. ... In Sharpeville, the estimated five thousand African protestors marched through the streets towards the police station without their passes, chanting campaign slogans such as "Izwe lethu" (Our land); "Awaphele ampasti" (Down with passes); and "Sobukwe Sikhokhle" (Lead us Sobukwe). ... We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means within our power in defense of our people, our future a...

• Word Count: 1663
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. ... She speaks casually of the reserve "which our forefathers gave to Maduna when he yielded to them, a hundred years ago" (56), without questioning the precise nature of the giving and taking involved in the Afrikaner seizure of land. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Understanding representation is vital to understanding identity, with the Michael Brown trial still fresh on our memories, it is important to remember that the actions and words of a few do not represent the beliefs of a whole. ...

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

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate