Even though he was a terrific baseball player people did not like him because of his skin color. ... Also, breaking the color barrier was also a huge deal and that inspired other colored people to do any sport they wanted. ... Jackie helped break the color barrier and help the civil rights movement. ...
He also knows that they must break the "color barrier" to do that. ... Walter Lee Younger showed throughout the play that by working hard and trusting your family and your people even the toughest of barriers can be crossed. In this play those barriers were poverty and oppression and Walter Lee was able to help carry his family over both of these walls to a new start. ...
For a man coming from a poor family of sharecroppers, his beginning, would help him become the first baseball player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier that segregated major league baseball for many decades. ... He broke the colour barrier in baseball by being the first African American to play in white baseball. ...
Throughout the history of literature, authors have told their readers of the time periods they have lived in. One major style that has been effectively used in this manner is poetry. The style of poetry was a greatly made use of during the Harlem Renaissance, which was when the African-American arts...
Although the blacks had excelled in the sport, a color bar had been put into place so that blacks and whites could not fight each other. ... The view held by the authorities was that in contests between men of color and white men the temperaments of the contestants are not compatible. ... The color bar was never an actual law, per se, it was always a sort of de facto rule--black and white did not fight in important contests. ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quipped, "There is no good object in these color matches. ... In their time (the 1890's), they faced different barriers because altho...
No, not a war that took place in the trenches of a battlefield, but a war that took place in the halls of an American high school "a war against color. ... Arkansas was going through a reconstruction period, but barriers were put in front of the reconstruction by many groups such as Mrs. ...
As the African American culture expanded their horizon, and viewed passed the obstacles and barriers that were set by other ethnic groups, many families migrated to the northern cities, including New York City. ... People looked passed the skin color and, honor them rightfully with awards, prizes and fellowships. ...
Blacks in the entertainment business broke all color barriers but when they stepped out into the real world, they were the average person out on the street. ... Whites who were in this organization hated people that weren't their skin color. ... Another example of racism and sexism is the book, "The Color Purple" by Toni Morrison. ...
Katharine Drexel was the second child born of Francis Anthony and Hannah Jane Drexel, on November 26, 1858. A month after Katharine's birth, Hanna passed away, and for the next two years, Katharine and her older sister were taken care of by their aunt and uncle. After the time of two years had gon...
The African- American Community has been blessed with a multitude of scholars. Two of those scholars include Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du bois. Both of these men, had a vision for African- Americans. They wanted to see the advancement of their race of people. These great leaders just had diff...
We make judgments about people around us based on what we see, and often the skin color is the first and most important thing we notice. Most of the time, it is simply a mere registration of the fact that the person is not like us, especially when we are very young, but as we grow older our perception of color is expanded by the influences of other people around us, our family, neighbors, teachers, community. ... By looking and feeling with the people that are being let down and judged everyday, is a very good step to put a barrier to racism and discrimination. ...
Blacks were brainwashed and stripped of self-esteem from the dark color of their skin to their facial features. ... Whether, anybody wants to admit it, there is still a glass ceiling (status barrier) against African Americans. ...
While not intentionally taking a stereotypical tone, the fact of the matter was that this show broke the barrier of the role of African Americans on television. ... They feel that by making Bart, a black boy instead of his "normal" yellowish color that more African-Americans will be drawn into watching the Simpsons. ...
