Three days later, Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River. The body was reported to have one eye missing and collapsed skull, which had a bullet in it. ... Mamie Bradley, Emmett's mother, requested that the body of her son be brought back to Chicago. ... The pictures of Emmett's destroyed body shocked the entire African American population in America. ... The violence and brutality that had been started by mayor Bull Connor's police also helped their effort. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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The girls dropped their basket and started running after the red roses to keep them from getting soiled in the snow. ... A woman started singing "O Sugarman done fly away" when she saw Mr. ... They started giving orders as soon as they got over the sight of Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I wished to contemplate who I was beyond my body, this container of flesh. ... I wondered who I was beyond This complicated, milk skinned, genital-ed body. ... To be.'11 Alexander's poem makes an example of Toomers personal struggles with understanding his race, capturing how he was not trying to dissociate himself with his heritage but was trying to move 'beyond my body, this container of flesh'. ... The book comes full circle, starting in the south, moving to the north and back down to the south again. ... Toomer makes his position clear by contrasting the two locales, ...

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Being from one of the most diverse countries in the world where there is hardly any racism, coming down here was a shock to the body. ... We really start to understand how racist Old Dudley is when the black neighbor moves in next door to him. ... When I first started reading, I thought she was racist but as I write this paper, I have come to realize that it was in her nature to write like this to teach the reader about the history of the South and what went on from the 17th century to the 1960's. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Bennett writes the poem surrounding the woman's blackness by starting off with, "I love you for your brownness " signifying that her beauty lies within her skin color (line 1). ... By being linked to royalty and the tenderness of the woman's body, Bennett claims that a darker woman is far more beautiful than a white woman. ... She did this in order to save her body from Dr. ...

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Right now, many Americans are acting with complete ignorance because the news has not stopped talking about the Ebola virus that is said to have started in Africa. Now people are starting to connect all Africans with disease just because the news has poisoned our minds to think this way. ... When girls see Nicki Minaj on stage twerking, they admire her for all the attention she is getting, then in reaction, young girls turn around a post videos twerking and using their bodies to get attention. ... To be clear, I am not speaking for all African-Americans when I talk about people being disresp...

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These boys" actions started sit-ins in hundreds of cities. ... Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... After the arrest of Rosa Parks people then started to have bus boycotts, which drew much support of almost 100 percent of the cities black residents. The civil rights movement also started the rise of a black power movement towards the middle of the 1960's. ... It also indicated that blacks needed to have unity and pride instead of just integration.1 This started the result of many organizations that supported black power. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ... The Africans were linked in pairs or in threes by chains, and sometimes the companion was a dead body; sometimes of the three attached to the same chain, one would be dying and another already dead. ...

• Word Count: 4160
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• Grade Level: High School

When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... When we start to believe in a hierarchy of races and decide to set ourselves at the top of that pyramid we are only strengthening the color lines that separate us and hinder our ability to function together in a democracy that values all people of different backgrounds. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder......

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Janice was about 12 years old when her body began developing; she noticed men in a sexual way. ... Janice found interest in her cultural background when she started college at Cal State Dominguez and was living in the dorms. ...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. The pos...

• Word Count: 5084
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some people are born to be certain things in life. Some are born to be doctors, some are born to be lawyers, some perhaps engineers or teachers. Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. Destined to fill the void of support for a race of people, who having been kicked in the teeth for so many years, were finally willing to rid their lives of oppression and to stand up and be counted, not just in the eyes of the law, but in the hearts of the people. It was never going to be easy. ...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unrecognized strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

• Word Count: 4261
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School