Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." ... That no matter what minority that you are from you still deserve some form of compensation for the wrongs that were done not only to your ethnicity, but also to their past family relatives. ... They feel that this law is unfair, taking away more gifts that I can give to ...

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Slavery was not only about broken families and tragic break ups, but brutal work conditions. ... On average a woman made $2.25 a week, this in turn paid for her room and board, and clothing. ... They didn't have families to cheer them up when they were depressed. ... These were uneducated men trying to make an honest living to support their families. ... Families would starve to death on the account of insufficient money. ...

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"Most problems that African-Americans in the inner cities suffer from are from an internal breakdown in the family structure. In the nineteen-sixties, the overall family structure in black Americans began to crumble" (Parker 3). ... The average African-American makes over three times what the average person of Africa makes and in America, African-Americans have the opportunity for advancement. ...

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Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Both were of well-to-do families that were proud of their heritage. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

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His father, born in Stockbridge, Georgia, had worked very hard to get an education so that he would not have to partake in the family business of sharecropping. ... The King family viewed education, like many black people, as the key to getting ahead. ... Although love and a relative financial ease allowed Martin Jr. a certain shelter and comfort, his family could not fully protect him from the cruelty of racism. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

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According to statisticsbrain.com the average American spends 35 hours a week watching TV", then spending it with their family members. ... She was known to have a temper and take it out on the family especially her husband, which was mostly represented as a Sambo. ...

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The existence of single-father families is very low; only 3.4% of white children, and 4.0% of black children reside with solely their fathers (U.S. ... In addition, 63% of families maintained by white grandparents had both grandparents present, compared to only 35% of families maintained by black grandparents (U.S. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black father in a vast amount of families is a huge blow to the advancement of the young black man. ... With out a family to rely on, a growing black man is being sent up the river with out a paddle. The tragic ...

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The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ... A black athlete then doesn't have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. ... They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they can't do good or excel, but anyone can do good or excel if they put their mind to it. ... Many whites grow up in poor families, and they can't use excuses either. ...

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The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. Faced with misery and suffering that many succumbed to, African American women as a group proved resilient eno...

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The descendants of these people would feel that their family has already given enough or should at least not be included among the people who would have to pay reparations. ... The people who would receive this money are far down the family tree from the people who were slaves. The Japanese-Americans who were paid $20,000 after World War II were either themselves put in internment camps or were family members of the people who were in them. ... When compared to the people in the African countries from which the slaves were taken, black people in America today earn on average a per capita in...

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I feel strongly that keeping your family close will help you have a healthier life. ... In my life a family member that I loved very much caused me this same anger. ... Family is also very important to me so when someone in my family lets me down it hurts more than the average person. ... He promised he wouldn't break apart my family even when he knew he was. ... Even though I was furious with every thing he did, he was still my family and i found it in my heart to forgive him. ...

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Her rational powers and will to action facilitate her efforts to find strategies for dealing with sexual harassment from her master, for maintaining family unity, and in establishing a moral code in harmony with her beliefs and situation. ... He was separated from his mother at a very young age, as was typical of many Negro families. ... Throughout his autobiography, Douglass conveys the horrors that were typical the average slave. ...

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However Malcolm Little was still an average youngster who wanted a good life but was stopped by racism. ... After his mother had a nervous breakdown his family was spilt up. ... Elijah Muhammad spoke of how the Black man was the Original Man, who had been kidnapped from his homeland and stripped of his language, his culture, his family structure, his family name, until the Black man in America did not even realize who he was. ...

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She, therefore, feels ties to everyone in the house, as most relationships within the house are indeed close, and chooses to live upstairs in the house more as a guest to Valerian than a family member of the help. Willie enters the picture as a depersonalized, average-class black man who has just escaped work on a boat and needs a place to stay. ... The central character of the book, Jadine, is judged by everyone around her; her black family members, friends, and lovers because she has adopted so completely the culture of the white man, and then every white person that she does encounter, base...

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Through his poems and short story composing, Langston Hughes had the capacity to fuse interesting thoughts, as well as social issues essential to him, individual family matters, African American way of life, and even types of music. ... His poems and fiction depicted the lives of the average black workers in America, lives he depicted as brimming with battle, euphoria, chuckling, and music. ...

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Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. ... In the decade from 1890 to1899, lynchings in the U.S. averaged 188 per year, 82 percent of which occurred in the South (America 854). ...

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In the 1960's, affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, was created in order to help benefit minority groups in several areas of society. Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. One idea behind affirmative action is that it compensates for the huge disadvantage African American people have in America, which is that their entire culture is rooted in slavery and for most of their history here, they did not have basic rights. Due to this history, black people are still often subject to discrimina...

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Captivity, bondage, restraint, subjugation, and slavery. These words all mean one thing, enslaving someone against their will. Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every lev...

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a gifted poet, author, and lecturer. Her humble beginnings had a profound affect on her thirst for knowledge and justice for the Negro slave. As life and its many challenges unfolded for Harper during the 1800's, she embraced those obstacles with grace and dignity as she endured the struggles of the abolitionist movement. Therefore, this paper will examine her background, provide a critical analysis of five of her poems, and a personal commentary will be provided. According to Hill, Harper was born on September 24, 1824 ...

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