Washington was an educated man who gave his life to promote the education of blacks, and believed strongly that education was the first step to acceptance. ... Booker T. believed that "progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing". ... Thomas Fortune said, in regards to Washington's school, "What is practical, what will best fit these young people for the work of life, that is taught (at the school), and that is aimed at It is impossible to estimate the value of such a man as Booke...

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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
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First, this town was segregated in all aspects of daily living. ... This did not go over well with the city, especially since Coach Boone was a Black man. ... It seemed that all the white members of the team were racist at the beginning of the movie, only knowing the ways in which they were taught by their parents to respond towards minorities. ... Eventually they got together as a team and united to have a winning season. ... Coach Boone wanted to make a difference in his players" lives and was soon applauded by the blacks and the whites through the winning football season. ...

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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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story is told from the perspectives of the sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. ... He started demonstrating an poor attitude at all times the night of his Aunt's Jimmy's brother's funeral when he was caught having sexual intercourse with Darlene. ... The flashlight man lifted his gun down from his shoulder, and Cholly heard the clop of metal."... He represents the average black man. He is just trying to make it but as all black men, he has his "obstacles" that he has to avoid. ...

• Word Count: 480
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They both focus on education and eliminating discrimination; however, Washington encourages the African Americans to accept their inferiority and limits them to only common-schools, whereas Dubois insists that African Americans demand complete equality with Whites in all aspects of life, including higher education. ... Washington, born in 1856 to a slave mother and an unknown white man, faced many obstacles throughout his lifetime, which may have influenced his views on equality for African Americans (Harlan). ... He says that "Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season,...

• Word Count: 1189
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

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Robinson established a reputation as a man who never tolerated insults to his dignity (Kahn 6). ... Many whites had never seen a man react in such a tranquil way. ... The following season Robinson got moved up to the Los Angeles Dodgers professional team only five days before their first game (Kahn 101). ... Teammate, Carl Erskine, said "this is a white mans game- (118). ... Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, all of which were assassinated (239). ...

• Word Count: 1421
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• Grade Level: High School

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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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). ...

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In Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn there are a few significant instances that show the white man's derogatory treatment of, or attitude towards, slaves. ... This direct quote explains how it was difficult for Huck to apologize to a black man because everybody around him was so against blacks. ... In Douglass" A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, there are many examples of the white man's derogatory treatment of, or attitude towards, slaves. ... Slaves did work of all sorts. ... The slaves were even worked in all weather. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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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...

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This special population of people almost entirely means the black man who occupies the majority of all poor urban areas nationwide. ... When someone describes America the first thing most would say is that it is the land of opportunity where all men are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. ... The New Jim Crow and The Jail, both tell a similar story of severe hardships forced upon the black man.  ... In short, the black man has always since the birth of this nation, in some shape or form, been controlled by the white man. ... The purpose of these amendments was to provide c...

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The labor workers were not benefiting from the increase in working demand in any way at all, as a result of the dramatic increase in production the workers and their families were suffering financially. As well as financially suffering, the workers health and over all well-being was being compromised a great deal. ... When farmers could not profit from their crops one season it would hurt them a great deal financially for the following season. ... However, Addams did see that the system needed improving and reconstruction to benefit all classes of society. ... Addams changed all of that fo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs to only him?... Although the white men saw Native Americans a lot differently than themselves, this also happened later on during the Colonial Era with the white man's relationship to their slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2660
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• Grade Level: High School

In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. ... I don't regret a thing about the way I was raised, because that's what made me into the respectful and intelligent man that I am today. ... It is a way of having food all year around. ... I always wonder about the idea of having food all year around, given that food does not naturally grow in the winter season. ... Martin Luther King Jr., and Marcus Garvey all were proponents of "Black Power". ...

• Word Count: 3405
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• Grade Level: High School