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. ... Similar criticism came forward in 2013, when the novel was adapted again, this time to become a Broadway theater play. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... Out of these economic problems that play a big part in the novel, Carl Lee can only pay Jake $900 to take his case, and is unable to g...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• 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). ... Previously most of the characters of the Coon and Jim Crow were played by white men in black face in addition the up and coming black entertainers found that as the characters had been exaggerated in the past they too had to exaggerate the...

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