Zimmerman killed Martin who was walking home to his father's fiancee's home after visiting a local convenience store. ... We can put a black man in the White House, but we cannot walk a black child through a gated neighborhood. ... "When the Sanford police did not arrest George Zimmerman, they essentially placed the burden of proof on a dead young man who cannot speak for himself" (The Guardian)....

• Word Count: 543
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• Has Bibliography

Macon Dead - Milkman's father. ... Pilate Dead - Macon's sister. ... Freddie, the janitor - a man who works for the Deads. ... Porter - one of Macon Dead's tenants. ... He thinks of a night last week when he returned home from a party in the early morning and saw his mother walking down the street. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Sometimes, this masking meant shuffling and feigning irresponsibility; sometimes, it meant turning the other cheek and walking away rather than responding to white insults. ... During this time there was no longer room for the passive African Americans, willing to accept the white man's cruelty. ... Although the Jim Crow South lays dead and buried, this era is only a few decades in our past. ...

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It creates suspicion towards other races in that when people see an African American walking down the street, they might think the worst of them and have a negative prejudice towards them all because of the way the media portrays them. ... It caters to the lowest instinct in man. ... Sympathy is never shown for the victim, media manipulates us into thinking they should be dead, and why should we feel bad for the victim. ...

• Word Count: 1258
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• Grade Level: High School

Then the movement took place when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a bus. ... Or if a black man walks in the presence of one or several KKK members, it would be unsafe for the black person. ... A 49 year old black man by the name of James Bryd Jr. was dragged by the back of a pickup truck (Boven). Police got the call of a dead body and the man's torso was found first, right arm second. ... If only that feeling of walking in public and being looked at the wrong way cou...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. ... In the United States, ordinary American citizens such as Rosa Parks, Zecozy Williams, and Jim Zwerg (a white man) revolutionized the system of segregation. ... Other black citizens found other transportation alternatives, such as walking. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. Nel Wright represents the archetypal mother and wife, a conformer who never leaves her hometown. Sula refuses the bonds of marriage and children, and sets out into the world, refusing tradition's version of woman. D...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ... Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last ag...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School