Another son born two years earlier had died. ... When Langston was twelve years old his grandmother died, and he went to live with some family and friends. ... Academically and socially, Langston did well in Lincoln, The summer before he started high school, Langston and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... Now he wanted Langston to join him for the summer. ... On Smith 6 May 22, 1967, Hughes died at the age of sixty-five. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

To The White Fiends was written in 1922, when whites and blacks were in violent race conflicts in cities, this was referred to as "Red Summer". ... In Bondage was also written in 1922, during the grim setting "Red Summer" like the poem To White The Fiends. ... Given that these were written during "Red Summer" it seemed like he wanted African Americans to fight with pride and not violence in the poem To The White Fiends. ... This period of "Red Summer" was brutal on both sides, the hate was in full bloom and many died because of it. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His first trip was in the summer, and lasted two weeks. ... " The tinny sound from my laptop was Bessie Smith singing "I'm Wild About That Thing," a filthy blues number and a masterpiece of plausible deniability: "Don't hold it baby when I cry Give me every bit of it, else I'd die I'm wild about that thing.... There are glances in Zurich, where I am spending the summer, and there are glances in New York City, which has been my home for fourteen years. ...

• Word Count: 1342
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• Grade Level: High School

Also, while at Fisk DuBois spent two summers teaching a southern school and in doing so he also learned more about the south. ... DUBIOS died happy and free yet he died on the eve of the march on Washington it's a shame he wasn't able to see it. He died at the ripe old age of 93 on august 27, 1963. ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

W. E. B. DuBois once stated, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." This statement summarizes a significant issue that most African Americans recognized and sought to change during this era. Although these leaders recognized that there was a problem, they strongly...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

DuBois spent two summers teaching at a county school in the south while attending Fisk in order to learn more about the South and his people. ... A few months later on August 27, 1963, DuBois died of natural causes (Hynes). ...

• Word Count: 1675
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps the most hideous of these early codes was the code passed in October of 1669 that stated " if any slave resist his master (or other by his masters order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction chance to die, that his death shall not be accompted felony, but the master be acquit from molestation, since it can not be presumed that prepensed malice should induce any man to destroy his owne estate." ... The next major rebellion occurred in the summer of 1800. ...

• Word Count: 1791
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In, "The Color of Water," James McBride writes both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother, Ruth. In the memoirs of the author's mother and of himself, they constantly face discrimination from their race in certain neighborhoods and of their religious beliefs. The trials and tribu...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. ...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Frieda and Claudine McTeer, young girls reminiscing about their youth and the horrible summer when they came to know Pecola. ... Meaning there where no happy ending in 1941, the seeds of hope they themselves planted had shriveled and died, just like Pecola and Cholly's b...

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

Finally, in the summer of 1862, with the realization that the war would not be won without the end of slavery, Lincoln drew up the Emancipation Proclamation (Fincher). ... Nearly twice as many African Americans died of diseases on the battlefield then the white soldiers (Ward 253). ... Though the casualties were many the bravery of the black men who died in this bloodbath was apparent. ...

• Word Count: 2424
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the final section of the novel, Claudia remembers seeing Pecola searching the garbage after the baby was born prematurely and died and she became insane. ... She recalls her childhood memories that she and her sister Frieda blame each other for the unsuccessful attempt to grow marigolds that summer. ...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School