In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. ... They argued that segregated schools were not necessarily harmful to black children; great African American such as Frederick Douglas, Booker T. ... The court had to make its decision based on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when the amendment was written in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equa...

• Word Count: 936
• Approx Pages: 4
• 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. ... 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 Scout, as the book references her. ... In the beginning, the racism is not outright harsh, but as the book continues, it becomes very obvious and detrimental. ... Through tax deductions and home loans, moving t...

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

Upon his return to semi-consciousness, Shadrack is released from the military hospital despite his psychologically disturbed condition and left to find his way home. ... She is reprimanded for entering a white car by the conductor who, despite her elegant and dignified appearance, calls her "gal" and causes her to react with a bedazzling smile (Morrison 20). ... He stands in line for nearly a week hoping for the chance to work a masculine road building job, "real work" as he calls it, instead of the waiter position he currently holds (81). ... Sula comes from a house of "throbbing disorder con...

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

As the situation escalates, the national guard is called into town, while everybody is awaiting the trial jury's decision. ... Stephen Hunter, who reviewed the film for the Baltimore Sun wrote: "Why is it taking place in 1996 instead of 1958? ... There are different reasons stated for the permanent or temporary removal of "A Time to Kill" from the libraries; when asked about the book banning in his home state of Mississippi, John Grisham himself assumed that it was because of the "graphic rape scene" in the first chapter. ... Between 2000 and 2009, "A Time ...

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• Approx Pages: 20
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It means, the apartheid society has taken place in the country in a such long time. ... These two race groups weren't allowed to use the same official places such as hospital and schools etc. Namely they had segregated neighborhoods, black people were forcibly removed from their homes and were put in a separated area from whites. ... While white students were having many skilled teachers, all the texts book they needed and a pleased school building. ... The uprising was organized by Soweto students as well as a man called Steve Biko, he was an antiapartheid activists. ...

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