During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... Lula represent the whites power in America during that time. ... Looking back to American history Whites has treated Blacks very brutally. ... African-Americans, South Asians, Latin Americans, and other people of color have, for many generations, internalized this Eurocentric standard of attractiveness. ... Looking back, it is clear that Dutchman appeared on the eve of a major shift, both in American society and in the life of the playwright. ...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5

Campbell, the "Last Free American". Campbell is an American-born playwright who has made his life in pre-war Germany. ... One day an American agent, after appealing to Howard's sense of heroics, recruits him as a spy for America. ... Was he an American who inadvertently helped the Nazis? Or was he an American not reluctant to help the Nazis? ...

• Word Count: 772
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the year 1940, 75 years after slavery was abolished, African Americans were still experiencing hateful and demoralizing discrimination. ... Angelou was an acclaimed poet, author, dancer, actress, playwright, director, and civil rights activist. ... This quotation exemplifies the lack of common courtesy African Americans received- even at their public event- by white people. ... Angelou begins to question her own self-meaning and how being an African American woman discounted her in society. It is not until Angelou sings along with Henry Reed that she discovers the gratification of being an ...

• Word Count: 1074
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes Poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, and songwriter: all of these words describe a man who is said to be one of the twentieth century's most respected and often controversial writers. ... Shaped by his parents, childhood, and life experiences, Langston Hughes became one of the most influential Black Americans of his time. ... He once said, "Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America" (Berry 21). ... In 1932, he went with a group of twenty-two blacks to Russia to help make a film about race relations in the America...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School