It not only segregated black people from white people, but it separated black people from each other. ... It was required that all blacks carried a "pass book". The "pass book" included fingerprints, photo and information on access to non-black areas. ... In 1993 Nelson Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He accepted it on behalf of all South Africans who suffered and sacrificed so much to bring peace to our land. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

African Americans were forced to live separate from the white people. The black community was forced to live in separate communities away from the whites. ... Bigger felt at peace. While in prison, due to the visits from Jan, Bigger begins to see white people are not the untouchable power that he assumed in the beginning of the book. ...

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A book can be the window to a whole new world. ... Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. ... The men went to separate prisons to do their time and the women received a sentence of five years in a women's reformatory. ...

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During the turn of the century, Booker T. ... Washington understood that his speech, although meant to present the races "as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (451), also gave him a bit of backlash from his own community, while bringing prosper from the white community. ... Especially when he claims that the black man is not even yet free – "The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins" (535) – for so many of the black community are still being persecuted simply for the color of their skin, the coarsenes...

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Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. ... With this in mind, he began his first book "St...

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Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. ... (Morrison 19) That was an excerpt from the book The Bluest Eye and in that scene we see how Pecola adores the cup with the pretty little while girl on it. ... The novel says that it is due primarily to her injured foot that she felt a sense of separateness and unworthiness and also why she "never felt at home anywhere, or that she belonged anyplace- (Morrison, 111) This feeling was intensified by her experiences of exclusion and loneliness after moving up north. ...

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I remember learning King was a minister, a supposedly pure Christian, and won the great Nobel Peace Prize because he was willing to turn the other cheek. ... The two men were working towards the same goals as Cone explains in his book, but in different manners. ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... Then that home was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible - (5) Only seemingly harmless and peaceful though, because Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town inhabited by townsmen of Virginian ancestry, and by slaves. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School