Each year between 1750 and the Civil War more than one-fifth of the Black women in the 15 to 44 age group bore a child. ... They were thus more likely to have a midwife deliver their child than a more costly doctor. ... Childbearing and child rearing structured the slave woman's pattern of resistance. ... Most slave women this age were either pregnant, nursing an infant, or had at least one small child to care for "male runaways could be more assured that their children would be cared for, but slave women had no such assurance. ... Slave women shared child-rearing responsibilities. ...

• Word Count: 2427
• Approx Pages: 10

Hooks goes on to say that, "until men are taught how to parent using the same model of effective parenting that has been taught to women, they will not participate equally in child care. They will even feel that they should not participate because they have been taught to think they are inadequate or ineffective child rearers." Both black men and women need to raise their consciousness and realize that single parenting is not the most effective way to raise a child. ... Black mothers have realized that raising a child alone is not a...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Society rears certain ideals that establish a negative view for Huck such as hate and violence, and Twain displays this powerfully when Huck comes down from the tree weeping as he covers his friend's corpse and thinks how "[Buck] was mighty good to [him]" (138). ... They lie with the one person who unconditionally cared for Huck and who taught him how to treat others and look to himself for his moral code, the one person Huck looked up to and who respected him as a person not just a child. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate