The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. ... I'm coming out a ma n " this shows for some black American that was in the War, their attitude changed about the racial discrimination as before the War. ... Montgomery bus boycott was important in getting the civil right act passed as not only did it create awareness about racial discrimination towards coloured people. ... That Montgomery bus boy cut was an event that could arguably be the key Turing point in the civil right movement as ...

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. ... Whites who supported black citizens were where treated harshly by their own. ... On the other hand, the abuse that Blacks faced was much more severe. ... White teenage boy would drive around and hurl objects such as eggs, potatoes, and apples out of their v...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Malcolm X's speech "The Black Revolution," he is addressing to a group of white liberals about the oppression blacks have gone through and what it will take to provide racial equality. ... All throughout his speech, Malcolm X continuously talks about a bloody revolution that is to take place in America, which sticks to the minds of his listeners. ... Malcolm X says that all of the people in the world care about the injustice the black people are going through in America. X is falsely reporting that his people care enough to rise with the African-Americans in this revolution that Mal...

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

James Baldwin, though controversial in his own time due to his homosexual writings, became a leading black commentator on the suffering and abuse of his people in the United States, which he believed symbolized universal conflicts. ... It was only when Baldwin began writing about his own personal experiences did he become an accomplished writer. ... He felt as though he was "too black" as well as isolated, and all of these insecurities constituted for his leaving Switzerland after only two weeks (Als 141). ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unus...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School