White people have land in their own country. ... Here we see that the black people wanted their land back because it was not fair that some other people were taking over their land. ... We want our land. ... "You could never like the Indians because their customs were strange and funny in a bad way" . ... In African culture the land is the most important thing to them, it is also revealed that God gave this land to them, and they must retrieve it from the Whites, who have forcefully occupied their land. ...

• Word Count: 1177
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They said the white Oppressors (Whites and Afrikaners) stole their land, destroyed their families, and had taken their goods leaving the worst for them. ... Three white women were assaulted and militants drove white farmers off their land. ... Many people have experienced Racism first hand and know how bad it can be. ...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

She begs with him that a person from a good family wouldn't do anything bad to others. ... The Greenleaf boys had joined the military and made something of themselves: "The two of them were living now about two miles down the highway on a piece of land that the government had helped them to buy and in a brick duplex bungalow that the government had helped to build and pay for" (O"Connor 1445). ... Turpin and her husband Claud own land and are, therefore, above others. ... Turpin names the classes of people: On the bottom of the heap were most colored people, not the kind she would...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Things got so bad that there was a war between the North and South called the Civil War. ... In 1896, Harriet got some land at an auction located in Auburn, NY (not far away from here!) Eventually, she opened a home for old people on that land. ...

• Word Count: 711
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Segregation was especially bad in the South, one incident included a young black boy who allegedly whistled at a white women, only 14 years old got lynched. ... It shows that America is not perfect and the land of the free all of the time, it shows our country has also had it's downfalls....

• Word Count: 516
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This book generally is about all of the migrant workers, all with their own dreams. The main characters George and Lennie go from farm to farm, trying to work up a stake and save enough to buy their own farm. The other characters in the book are also all lonely in their own way. Crooks is black and ...

• Word Count: 471
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

No matter how bad he wants to escape the old life, it is always just around the corner. ... In "Negro Hero" we enter the story of Dorie Miller a black soldier who is struggling within himself to deal with the war that is going on in his home land against the black man that he is, a soldier fighting to save the people that more than likely want him dead. ...

• Word Count: 952
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Also slaves lived in such bad conditions that they caught diseases such as Yaws, measles, whooping cough, dropsy and dysentery. ... Some plantation owners gave their slaves a small piece of land, a truck-patch, where they could grow vegetables. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the song The Roots repeat the lyrics, "Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me around, I just keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marching on to freedom land" and this relates to Moody because we see her fighting for what she believes in no matter how bad the circumstances get. ...

• Word Count: 1133
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They have nothing to do because they lost it all by making bad decisions growing up. ... You want to look back on your life and say that this place didn't stop me from reaching the promise land. ...

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"[These women] go to land-grant colleges, normal schools, and learn how to do the white man's work". ... Her association with everything bad that has happened to her life is to her ugliness. ...

• Word Count: 940
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the song The Roots repeat the lyrics, "Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me around, I just keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marching on to freedom land" and this relates to Moody because we see her fighting for what she believes in no matter how bad the circumstances get. ...

• Word Count: 1133
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They use guns to steal land in North America (during 1660 to 1880s) and force blacks to work on it as slaves. ... So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. ...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5