The Declaration fought for the freedom of the white American; the rights of the black man were not included in this new revolutionary legislation. ... "In fact there was a notable gap between antislavery rhetoric and the realities of revolutionary politics. The slavery issue could not be allowed to divide revolutionary alliances or to take precedence over such critical questions as military defense and political reconstruction." ... By 1775 the necessities of war had pulled both free and slave Negroes towards the British army, many of them clutching promises of freedom as their eventual rewar...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass, through the entirety of the story, uses references to American Revolutionaries to show the correlation between the plight of African Americans and those issues that the American Revolutionary War was fought for. ... Douglass was not at all blunt in the meanings of all of these revolutionary references. ... They risked their lives, not unlike the American Revolutionaries who fought for their independence less then 100 years before. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

"Black Panthers believe and believe profoundly, that black dignity and black liberation are not possible in the United States without profound changes to the system, changes which run so deep that only so strong a word as "revolutionary" will do to describe it." ... Through its ideologies the Black Panther Party developed a ten point plan that was to be the platform and program that articulated the wants and needs of the black masses in America that were still alienated from society and oppressed despite the abolition of slavery at the end of the Civil War. ... • We want an immediate en...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ... The change of hands between the to leaders was slow but revolutionary for the region none the less. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

As an African American composing (and endeavoring to distribute) poetry in the United States just 60 or somewhere in the vicinity years after the end of the Civil War, a period when indications of prejudice-including explicit segregation, brutality, and even lynchings-were still widespread, Langston Hughes inescapably investigated such points as oppression and liberation in his work (Evans 2010). ... Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature h...

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

Revolutionary incidents like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the march on Washington were just a few of the major catalysts in what is known today as the greatest civil rights movement of all time. ... He refers to this as a "world-wide powder keg" that will explode into a major race war (Malcolm X 232). ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Just as it had been done by France's revolutionaries in the French Revolution. Just as it had been done against Germany during World War I by America, England, and France all together, allowing these countries to have the peace they had already individually gained. ...

• Word Count: 2365
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School