John Griffin is a journalist and wants to see how life is different as a black man and how everyone reacts when they see a black man. ... In the book Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin realizes how different the blacks are from the whites and knows that the whites try to put the blacks "in their place." ... As John is walking down the street one night minding his own business a white teenager all of a sudden starts to chase John down the street and starts to harass him. ... World Book Encyclopedia. ... Summer 2002. 29 Mar. 2003 . ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

(Lipsitz 2) In his book, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." ... In his book, Lipsitz states that "[w]hiteness is everywhere in U.S. culture, but it is very hard to see (Lipsitz 1)." ... Lipsitz admits that "the murder of Bill Moore did affect [him] to an unusual degree, even more than the many reports of the deaths of dozens of blacks in the civil rights ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Church and is an even-keeled figure through the book. ... I think I may be able to understand why some urban groups have started to refer to themselves as niggers. ... The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. ... Although the book is fiction, one does think that trials like this probably did happen. ... It was then reported that Ray was dating the daughter of a white police officers. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She uncovered the men responsible for lynching and reported on the incidents. 2. ... They also told about how the violence against African Americans was unjust and wrong. She also wrote an autobiography of her life starting when she was just a little child until the weeks before she died. This book proves her devotion to her cause and shows she was a good intelligent person. ... She attended the organizational meeting for the NAACP and attended meetings threw its starting years to reform the racial injustices of our country. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is in London where many believe that Garvey gathered all the knowledge he needed to start the Universal Negro Improvement Association. ... On June 14, 1914, Marcus Garvey left England and arrived in Jamaica with many ideas on how to bring justice to the black people; ideas that no other black person would dare to implement or go about due to fear of how the whites might react. He wasted no time once back in Jamaica to start his own organization of which he planned to finally liberate his race through. ... He wrote to the well-known Booker T. ... "The Black Star Line was an important symbo...

• Word Count: 2365
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is important to know the public's opinion on controversial issues such as this one and it is interesting to find out how different sub-groups feel about the same controversial subjects. ... Before starting my research, I hypothesized that a higher percentage of African Americans would oppose the death penalty than Whites. ... In addition, it has been reported that "Women and African Americans have been consistently less supportive of the death penalty than men and Caucasians" (Simon and Blaskovich 35). ... For example, in the book, "Racial Prejudice and the Death Penalty," it states th...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography