He became perhaps the most prominent black leader of his time. ... Booker over came the obstacles of the free black man by educating himself and other blacks to become "equal" to whites. ... They settled in a very small house with many other black and very poor white neighbors. ... After working in the coal mine for some time, his mother found a position for him as a house boy for the Ruffner Family. ... Washington encouraged black progress in economic and educational opportunity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They would rape black women, burn crosses, whip well-known black leaders, and ransack home which blacks lived in. ... Blacks could no longer take it. ... There was a story about how a young, teenage, white boy drove around in his red pick-up truck with the Confederate flag hanging off the back of the cabin. ... One day a bunch of teenage blacks saw and recognized this white boy and his truck from school. They ran him off the side of the road and shot and killed the white boy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Hughes was a boy he felt pressure when he went to church to be saved by Jesus Christ. ... The impact of Hughes's work had a profound effect on the entire literary community, not just the black community. ... Langston Hughes, a black man that struggles, ends up achieving his dreams with nothing more than hard work. ... Work from the Harlem Renaissance gave many blacks the courage to stand up and say, "I"m proud to be black and you are no better than me." ... A person can find many different things significant about Hughes's writing, because he relates facts of black hardships...

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• Grade Level: High School

In defense of frequent claims by Southerners that blacks are slaves due to being born inferior, Douglass argues that slavery and education are complete opposites and that slavery actually creates the inferiority by promoting ignorance. ... Even as a young boy Douglass becomes frustrated at the fact that he does not know his birthday but all the white children do. ... By sharing his perspective on education, his narrative is one of the key influences that helped other blacks understand the importance of education and how one can only truly be free once they are capable of grasping the reality a...

• Word Count: 1456
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Louisville, blacks were indeed able to own houses and many participated in various community activities. ... Many schools that provided a great education for young minds were for whites only and blacks did not get their chance to expand their minds. ... Another school, that still stands today, holds its roots into the educating of young black youths, and that is Central High School. ... Athletics such as, "varsity football" (32), "boy's baseball team" (35), and "girls' basketball" (34). ... Blacks were also real estate agents, Humes & Gilliam being a ...

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Black people are the strongest people on earth. ... Soon after, Abraham Lincoln realized Black soldiers were great assets and that he needed Black soldiers to fight in the war against the Confederacy. Black regiments emerged all across the northern states. ... It show that Whites hated having a Black postmaster. ... Whites showed up at Trice's house and demanded for the boy to come outside. ...

• Word Count: 1964
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• Grade Level: High School

Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the 19th century. ... However, the prefaces also implicitly place black narratives under the control of white editors. For this reason, in all of his subsequent autobiographies, Douglass replaced Garrison and Phillips' endorsements with introductions by prominent black scholars. ... For instance, as a boy, not yet ten years old, Douglass learned the importance of knowledge when he overheard Hugh Auld chastising his wife Sophia for teaching a slave to read I quote "a nigger should know nothing but to obey his ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Early "stood with legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face black and grim." ... It is like he is a little boy when it comes to the war (hopping around in the saddle, patting the horse, slapping his own thigh, gesturing wildly, pointing, grinning. p.317). ... Those that are close to him view him fondly (a lovely adventurous boy, thirty-eight years old and never to grow older, fond of adventure and romance and all the bright sparkles of youth. p.58). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

Charles Hamilton, a quite and shy boy tells Scarlett, "I-I love you...I want to marry you"(109), which is something that probably would not have come out of Charles at that time except for the the confusion in his head. ... All of the blacks were free, but some stayed with their masters because they felt as though that was where they belonged. ...

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But Douglass's work shows firsthand the hardships of slavery, and how he overcame his challenges to become a free, educated, black man who's books are still read today. ... Although he did not have much of a relationship with his mother, she did manage to silently make trips in the night to see her young boy, although she faced a severe beating if she was caught. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School