The job of the NAACP was to try and fight discrimination in the courts and improve black employment opportunities. ... This is very important in the history of civil rights because why shouldn't a black person have the same opportunities a white person has for education? ... 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. ... In 1962 congress passed an amendment allowing black voters, and it was ratified in 1964. By 1965 The Voting Rights Act authorized blacks to vote,...

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

Many blacks were fearful anytime they walked out the door. During this time blacks were unjustly accused of awful crimes against whites. Rape, kidnapping and murder are crimes that were charged against blacks. ... Many blacks hated whites for these actions. ... "The boy was beaten and dragged to the suspension bridge spanning the Brazos River. ...

• Word Count: 802
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

One of the biggest problems is guns being sold illegally on the black market. Most criminals buy guns on the black market or steal them, making gun control virtually impossible (Polsby and Brennen). ... After an argument, a twelve year old New Jersey boy shot three times at a classmate. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms questioned the boy he stated that he paid three hundred dollars for the gun three days earlier. ...

• Word Count: 648
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

If a white student and a black student apply to the same college, despite their grades, the black student automatically has a greater chance of acceptance. ... Kwasi Ennis, a teenage boy, was accepted to all eight Ivy League Universities. ... In just one year UC Berkeley's admission rates showed a 56% decrease in black students and a 49% decrease in Latino students. ... Americans believed that blacks and whites needed equal chances. ... These standards were set in a different time period, when blacks and whites were struggling for race equality. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography

In the beginning of this short story, Timhead shoots and kills a 12 year old boy during a firefight. ... Back in those times, it was hard enough to be black man in America, so being a black man in the war was another challenge he had to encounter. Joe wanted to make a statement that black men can do whatever the whites can, and that they all have a job to do. ...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The recent killings of several black males by the police are a prime example that racism and all of its ugly and evil ways is alive and well. Simply being a black male makes you an automatic threat and therefore, killing you is justifiable. As a black young male in America I see the racism in this country first hand. ... From a young boy to a young adult my whole family always preached how important getting an education is especially as a person of color. ... Like many black people in America, I can move easily between two worlds because of the cultural practices and the cultural capital I ha...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5

The American business culture perpetuated discrimination against blacks rather than attempt to desegregate as a whole. ... The enslavement and oppression of blacks over the last few hundred years left them without land. ... Steve Ripley was not a victim of a white male corporation, but the victim of a racially one-sided good ol" boy system still present in this country today. ...

• Word Count: 655
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Leave it to Beaver, the definitive 1950's household comedy, focused on life through the eyes of an adolescent boy, Beaver. ... The Bill Cosby Show confronted the social issues that pertained to a black upper class family. ...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am currently pursuing higher education as I have done in the past. I've enjoyed a fruitful career in both software and financial services marketing. However, my most rewarding gig (not financially, but certainly a major step for me in lifelong learning) has been working with adults who have psychi...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate