I know this because she tells Dill, Scout and Jem that "We"re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us." ... They are very vindictive as they are supposed to be part of the Missionary Tea Society, which is supposed to be very Christian like. ... And when she announces that she doesn't like school, Atticus, makes a compromise, that if she goes to school, then he will carry on reading to her at night, just like they always have. This shows how close they actually are; because most people would just tell their children straig...

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• Grade Level: High School

During this time Baldwin attended Frederick Douglas Junior High School and DeWitt Clinton High School. During his school years, Baldwin won several awards for his writings. The joy that he felt from having others praise his work was overshadowed, however, by his father's disapproval of his non-Christian-oriented writing. James Baldwin's father was a very religious Christian who forced the church on young James. ... With a high school diploma under his belt James Baldwin moved to New Jersey and began working as a railroad hand. ...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. ... Schools, the workplace, our community, our friend's house, even our homes. ... No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous teacher. These two boys made it clear, that they hated blacks, Christians, athletes and foreign people (O"Donnell). They killed a black for his color and a Christian for saying that she believed in God. ...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: High School

This is just another shameful part of America's history that was minimized and hardly taught to most children in grade school or high school. ... Not only did the Europeans bring germs and disease, they brought Christian based ideas and enforced a male dominant way of life. Many Native Americans were forced to abandon and reject their traditional beliefs to become Christians. ...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

Gospel music was virtually ignored by white Christians and it was not until the twentieth century that denominational churches included gospel as a form of music. ... They were songs that should change lives and become part of the entire Christian experience. ... Contemporary gospel music demented found by choirs found a new place in the congregation and school settings. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The public schools were funded by property taxes. ... Linda Brown was a young black girl who lived in the transitional part of town between school zones. However, because she was black she was bussed to the black school. ... As a result of this by 1966 less than 1% of Southern schools had actually desegregated. ... In 1957 he became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

• Word Count: 1907
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• Grade Level: High School

It also led to the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ... As late as 1969, only 1 percent of the black students in the Deep South states were attending public schools with whites. After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to apply plans, such as school-district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and faculty under one roof. In 1971, the Supreme Court upheld school busing as a possible means of meeting integration goals. ...

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Another reason that may have contributed to the rise of missionaries in Africa was that the industrial society from the emergence of cities and towns created a "godless" society where Christians began to feel the government was not putting enough emphasis on the church and religious life. ... It can be seen that the main Holy Grail was to change the identity of Africans and by slowly assimilating Africans into European culture; a common example to illustrate this is the changing of African names to Christian ones. Similarly, the schools were connected to the missionaries and focused on teachin...

• Word Count: 2491
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I woke up, took my siblings to school, got to school early, and was planning on finishing up some homework and having breakfast with my friend before class. ... I didn't see anyone inspect a white, Christian male entering a federal building after the Oklahoma City bombings. ... Society is just one big junior high school. ... That's why schools in the US do not enforce the learning of a second language; they feel that English should be the universal language and that everyone should learn it. ...

• Word Count: 1542
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• Grade Level: High School

Henry set up a school for sailors to learn the secrets of the ocean. ... David Livingstone Africa has more than 250 million Christians, making Christianity the second most prevalent faith on the continent. Africans learned of the faith through devout Christians who traveled to Africa on a mission to teach their religion. ...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

He also said that the blacks needed, "to protest,"" but in a peaceful way and that, "our actions must be guided by the deepest principles of our Christian Faith."" ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. ...

• Word Count: 1782
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• Grade Level: High School

Ferguson "separate but equal " doctrine, not only intended for public schools but to other legal formed originations that pushed segregation including public transportation. ... Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way except the by bus. ... He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a highly influential civil rights organization that worked to end segregation throughout the South. ...

• Word Count: 1709
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• Has Bibliography
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He also said that the blacks needed, "to protest,"" but in a peaceful way and that, "our actions must be guided by the deepest principles of our Christian Faith."" ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. ...

• Word Count: 1781
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• Grade Level: High School

This representative of how Ruth and James McBride were accepted as Christians solely, therefore avoiding any difficulties having to do with race, at least when speaking about it with religion. ... James encounters racism in school, where everyone thought that he could dance. ... Also, another incident in school is when James was called a, "nigger," and everyone in the classroom laughed. ...

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

Malcolm Little later looked back at this moment in his life saying, "Even at that young age, I just couldn't believe in the Christian concept of Jesus as someone divine, and no religious person, until I was a man in my twenties and then in prison could tell me anything" (Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X1). ... Despite the destabilization Malcolm Little continued to perform especially well at a new school he attended; however, that did not last as a consequence to continual racist actions he experienced. ... As a result of these racist experiences Malcolm Little dropped out of s...

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In 1957, King presided over the newly founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the continuing struggle for rights. ... Disillusioned and pessimistic, he left school (finishing grade eight) to live with his sister Ella Mae Little Collins in Boston. ...

• Word Count: 2369
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• Grade Level: High School

King's serious behavior and constant appeal to Christian brotherhood and American idealism made a positive notion on whites outside the South. ... In the early 1960s King led SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation.) in a series of protest campaigns that gained national attention. ... In May 1963 King and his SCLC staff raised anti-segregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. ...

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The popular argument that the great majority of masters are Christian gentlemen, kindly disposed towards their people, and that the master's self-interest would stop him from mistreating his slave even if compassion didn't, for a slave is after all a very expensive investment. ... He enthusiastically states his mission: "They very soon mustered up some old spelling books and nothing would do but that I must keep a Sabbath school. ...

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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

• Word Count: 1704
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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

• Word Count: 1711
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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

• Word Count: 1704
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The Cunninghams send their children to school, as apposed to keeping them home to work in the field, and refuse to accept welfare or help from the town. ... The children only attend school on the first day. ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and other ultra-right wing groups prior to his run for the Presidency in 2000. ...

• Word Count: 1892
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When Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old high school student was arrested on March 2, 1955, and later found guilty for not relinquishing her seat (one that was reserved for black passengers) to a white person, the black community of Montgomery was outraged. ... I envy their unity, their good humor, their fortitude, and their willing ness to suffer for great Christian and democratic principles or just plain decent treatment" [p.103]. ...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: High School