Many African Americans saw the need and want to fight for their country in WW II, but the inability of most to be part of the American armed forces on the front line and their service being limited to cooks and such led to a reconsideration of their social standing. ... Women during this time period not only wanted to help their country, but were encouraged to by war manufacturing factories. ... The opponents of working women were still believers of the widespread standard of a domestic wife (Doc 7). ...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...

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

One anecdote which comes to mind on a personal level is my having dinner with my brother and his wife at their home along with my nephew (as well as my godson), Lee, when he was five. ... I would not say I grew up ignorant or indifferent; I was simply unaware or made aware of the wider spectrum of people with different viewpoints experiencing different struggles in our country. ...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through this diversity America is always changing, evolving, into a more culturally enriched country by the year. ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...

• Word Count: 1077
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It turned Harlem into a sensation, a phenomenon, an even¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ something that Americans elsewhere in the country read about the mass-produced newspapers and magazines. ... Hart stated, "He had a most dramatic meeting with his literary idol of the time, Vachel Lindesayhe had a chat with Lindsay and his wife, and was given a gift of Amy Lowell's John Keats, along with a note directing him to study the New Poetry" (Hart 617). ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate