The book I read was called Dreammakers, Dream Breakers. ... These attributes were instilled within him from day one. ... He had initially gained the spark when the University of Maryland would not let him attend the school, but the man he looked up to, the dean, Charles Hamilton Houston gave him the fire to do more than he ever dreamed of. ... They first concentrated on graduate and professional schools, believing that white judges would be more likely to sympathize with these two ambitious, quick thinking and resourceful young blacks within those settings. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I am the dream and the hope of the slave. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ...

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According to Ellison the struggling initiation of the main character should be seen as parallelism for the development of the black race - or even further: for all individuals - within the American society (cf. ... As he gets thrown out of the college by Bledsoe, for taking Mr Norton to places around the campus that this one was not supposed to see, the invisible man's identity which was closely linked with the college's philosophy ("Here within this quiet greenness I possessed the only identity I had ever known ... ... Therefore this is the fulfillment of his dream described at...

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With his hopes and dreams shattered Malcom decided to move to Boston to live with his half sister Ella. ... Shorty, a young black man with a dream of his own band would get him his numerous jobs and contacts that Malcom needed to survive in the hustling world. ...

• Word Count: 4036
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• Grade Level: High School

To this day, the systematic oppression of the black man and woman as a result of their kidnapping and being forced into slave labor has eternalized itself in our society and has found its home within the minds of the vast majority of white citizens. Many white people do not like to hear this fact and refuse to believe it, but the truth is deeply embedded within our society's political framework. Annually, laws are passed that continuously leave the black man disadvantaged and often times unable to access the resources in order to get a fair piece of the American dream. ... This paper will...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. ... Today, American music represents people who would have never dreamed of being heard or taken seriously even as little fifty or sixty years ago. ...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School