Many students live very segregated lives up until the time they start college. ... Interaction allows students to learn that persons of the opposite race are people too, more or less like themselves. Students starting at a disadvantage need a boost, minority students start out at a disadvantage in their college or job application process. ... Sincere, hard-working minority students are every bit as capable as white students, but because of these disadvantages, they may not have the same paper qualifications. ... Students can learn a lot from one another, but only if the student body contains r...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was rather frustrating for black students but they were struggling to learn under such hard conditions. ... They weren't even allow to learn under their native language, instead of that, they were forced to use the language of the whites, namely Afrikaans. ... So, on 16 June 1976 black students from various of schools joined to the South Africa Students Organization (SASO) in Soweto to start make a peaceful protests against the government. ... At first the police officers used tear gas and some shots to notify students. ... As it got spread around, more students and black Afric...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... A government study on discipline in public schools states that black students are three times more likely to be suspended than white students. ...

• Word Count: 594
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This tension is highlighted in Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic through his depiction of a race tension amongst students within a high school in Kentucky. Tensions between white and black students at the local high school had been escalating over the issues of white students displaying Confederate flags and black students wearing caps with an X on them, celebrating Malcolm X. ... We can all learn something significant from these two films. ...

• Word Count: 1597
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By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... She was instrumental in organizing a conference of student sit-in activists in 1960, forming the beginning of what would become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... Because the SN...

• Word Count: 2185
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... Nussbaum believes that rightful citizens are born when individuals learn to hold their identity as irrelevant and consider themselves part of a larger group that values the equal rights of all people. ... In her essay, Nussbaum questions the righteousness of having an extreme sense of national identity by saying, "As students here grow up, is it sufficient for them to l...

• Word Count: 2792
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... We can learn a lot from the obstacles and challenges these pioneers faced, they had no road map or precedent, probably some of those challenges they faced are similar to those we face today. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of wo...

• Word Count: 2290
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When racial socialization is done correctly young people learn early on about the systemic racism that surrounds them and they are taught the coping mechanisms and skills necessary to survive and thrive in such an environment (Degruy, 2005). ...

• Word Count: 1971
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People are usually in the HUB advocating for people to join their sorority, fraternity or organization and some of those organization or groups of Greek life explicitly state they are seeking African Americans, Hispanics, or Irish students. ... Social engineering states that students need to be educated on our nation's history and on the history of the different cultures and races with in our nation. Aside from being educated, students need to also be engineered to function in a democracy by learning the democratic values that will keep our nation together and allow us to strive for a bet...

• Word Count: 2862
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A grandmother name Bunny Plaskett, was upset to learn that youth today is using the word. ... That's why I propose the solution that schools teach students more about black history. When I was in school all I learn about blacks history was that Harriet Tubeman freed 300 slaves, Martin Luther King's "I have a speech" and how Rosa Parks started the boycott on buses in the south. ...

• Word Count: 1650
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Blacks were kept uneducated they could not attend schools and learn freely, blacks were also unemployed and even if they had a job is was the one's that no one wants to do and it paid low wages. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate