Hughes began writing in high school, and even at this early age was developing the voice that made him famous. ... Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. His innovations in form and voice influenced many black writers. ... Beginning in the 1930s, Hughes was active in social and political causes, using his poetry as a vehicle for social protest. ... Langston Hughes has earned a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced, but more than that Hughes has given a voice to the African American experience. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One distinctive mark of the great writing of the Harlem Renaissance includes the development of a creative voice that explains both Black history and the pain endured. ... His writing consistently exhibits a voice that embraces the African-American experience through symbolism in an act of glorification rather than shame. ... Hughes' use of this Blues aesthetic serves several functions: it brings an active quality to the complexities of pain and it allows a reality of human understanding to come alive in his poetry. ...

• Word Count: 758
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Adjacent to the most powerful distinguished women of the world such as, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamner, and Rosa Parks, thousand of African American women have confronted sexism and other forms of oppression to give a real voice to the directorial power of women. ... Jackson was an active member of the Black Panther Party, created an even more vivid image of her knowledge. ...

• Word Count: 555
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Numerous women were active in these campaigns but were left nameless, including many women of color. ... They have also worked to uplift the black race, achieve a voice in government and work toward equality for the race as for themselves as women. ...

• Word Count: 618
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The Works of James Baldwin We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only forces that can change it. James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. Shortly after his birth his mother married David Baldwin, a factory worker and Pentecostal min...

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While in San Diego she became very active in politics where she met Kendra and Frank Alexander, who were active members of the Black Panther Party as well as the Communist Party. ... She was the voice for the voiceless. ...

• Word Count: 1404
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Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1891 to James and the former Helen Louise Dillet, Johnson would eventually sometime in his lifetime, become a songwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, autobiographer, diplomat, educator, lawyer and later become an active member of the NAACP (English.uinc.edu). ... After becoming bored with practicing law, Johnson met up with his brother Rosamond in 1899 and the two of them over the years would compose many pieces of music with the most recognizable being "Lift Every Voice and Sing." ... Nash resigned as Executive Secretary to become active in the U.S. ...

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He claims that by studying their work it enables the later generations to learn and see working class African American women who were usually illiterate and repressed without a way to tell their stories in conventional ways to their kin and the greater public accomplish this feat by demonstrating through their quilts that they are they are persons with their own minds and voices, (38). Dee is not a part of this kinship of generations as she actively takes herself out of that picture, as Whitsitt points out, during her interlude of Polaroid snapping of everything from her earlier life, but hers...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Then Momma introduced her to Bertha Flowers, a beautiful and educated black woman who brought Maya out of her cocoon by giving her special attention that focused on love of the human voice in the recitation of literature. ... In California, Maya found her mother just as beautiful and active, but more attentive; the man she had married made a good stepfather, and life in the city, with its fluidity and diversity, was exactly to Maya's liking. ...

• Word Count: 1226
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. Even at this country's birth, its Founding Fathers incorporated the Three-Fifths Compromise, ending a dispute over slaves" votes, into the United States" very Const...

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• Grade Level: High School

This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... As it turned out, the FEPC achieved very little, in part because the committee could not work pro-actively and could investigate reports of discrimination only after it received a complaint. ...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School

American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes this succinctly: Running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America. ...

• Word Count: 9463
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride and an end to stereotyping. Blacks everywhere got fed up with being treated as if they were inferior and slaves, so they banded together to form a movement. Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as viole...

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• Grade Level: High School

SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

• Word Count: 4173
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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

• Word Count: 9660
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• Grade Level: High School