All those views changed during the 1970's when black sitcoms were becoming more reality based. ... He was the big, oversexed black man (Gray "Recognizing"). ... They were rated the 6th most popular show during the 1971-72 season, and 10th during the 1976-77 season. ... Alba 3 The Jeffersons were seen often on All in the Family from 1972-1975. ... Sondra, the oldest daughter was a senior at Princeton University during the first season; Denise and Theo were the know-it-all teenagers; Venessa the rambunctious 8-year old; and Rudy the adorable and mischievous little girl ("Network and Cable"...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In that story, Mike, a more seasoned mariner from Newark, New Jersey, strikes an African prostitute for spilling his drink in a waterfront bar in Senegal. A more youthful mariner, "The Little Virgin," who is a kind of protégé of the more seasoned man, unsettled by depression and a loss of group, assaults Mike. ... In the poem the landlord says that the man needs to pay him ten dollars. ... At that point the landlord will advise the police and get the man apprehended, saying that the man is testing the law. ... Fine Clothes to the Jew may remain in relationship to African American...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I was a young girl, my family and I would all cram around the television set to watch The Cosby Show every Thursday evening. ... I think that the show made people realize that in a way we are all the same. ... Sondra didn't marry a man and have kids straight out of high school. ... The show followed the same sequence for six seasons. ... He purchased all of the books that he wrote, and he even bought every season of The Cosby Show on DVD. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Reverend Soaphead, a man just looking for acceptance. ... Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. These types of divisions in the novel mark a correlation between the seasons and the chain of events in the story. ... This theme is represented all throughout the novel being the main rationale for Pecola Breedlove desire to have the bluest eyes. ... The thing she desires most to have is the Bluest eyes of all, which she believes will make her beautiful. ...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

A prime example of an unfortunate black man is Frederick Douglass. ... The free black man was still living an oppressed life. ... Not all women could cope with these conditions and live in this manner. ... An example of this came with a man named George M. ... They were reduced in wages as often as the seasons would recur, or as opportunities arose or were made" (Gompers 218). ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baseball is an all-American past time sport but what some don't know is when baseball first was invented in 1839 by a man name Abner Doubleday it was not designed to be segregated. ... It was in the alphabet book next to the letter "B", the first baseball club was organized in 1842 by a man named Alexander Cartwright. ... People try to bring to light of how baseball was a man's game for men all races; many felt that the sport would remain segregated as long as the club owners were made up of people who opposed integration. ... With all hard work and efforts that the blac...

• Word Count: 1398
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Southern white ideas expressed certain propositions about the black man in society. ... With these contracts, planters extended authority and presided over all aspects of the lives of blacks. ... Blacks would labor the entire season only to be left with the feeling of despair that was identical to slavery. ... The black man was viewed as being part of a system where they were thrown into the bottom of the social classes with no legal status." ... (Current, pg 154) The black man was harassed and tortured throughout American history, and also accused of crimes that they neither committed no...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Football was all white. ... "Jesse Owens is perhaps the best-remembered Olympic star of all time. ... That all changed with a man named Jackie Robinson. It is extremely important to be knowledgeable of Jackie Robinson because he was the man that paved the way for professional sports as we know them today. ... "On October 23, 1945, He was flown to Montreal to sign a contract to play for the Montreal Royals during the 1946 season" (Alexander 199). ...

• Word Count: 1632
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This is understood in the beginning of his speech, "In the season of disturbances and excitement, if others yield to the temptation of losing control of their judgment and give way to passion and prejudice, let us teach the world that we have learned the great lesson of calmness and self-control; that we are determined to be governed by reason rather than by feeling... We cannot afford to class all as our enemies, for there are many who are our friends... "(21) He tries to let his people know that all white people in the south were not against their cause, that some were willing and wanting to...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6

This treaty closed the land to all non-Native Americans; however the Texas ranchers driving their herds north to Kansas would look with envy to graze their cattle on that land. ... [T]here they gain a knowledge of how the white man lives and "earns his bread by the sweat of his brow (Stewart, 1905).... While this freed all the African Americans and even led to a short period of increased prosperity for them, the Jim Crow laws would quickly relegate them back to second class status (Healey, 2012). ... Celebrating births and changing of seasons, mourning the loss of tribal members, to prepa...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate