The play opens with Lena Younger awaiting the coming of a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband. ... During this era, it was an understood norm that poor blacks do not move into white neighborhoods. ... Proud Walter tries his hardest to keep from Travis, the fact that they lost all of their money. ... Walter shows his integrity by not selling out his race for anything. ... The Youngers eventually, proudly live their dream, yet they must continue to fight the racial prejudice. ...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" Because of the time period taken place in the novel, Lily isn't used to her not being wanted because of her skin color. ... In the end of the novel Lily is proud to be living with the Boatwright sisters. ... She realized that it is a community she loves and that it does not matter that her "family" members are black and she is white. ... She has a nervous breakdown and throws honey jars at the wall but she keeps her mother's things not ready to let them go. ... In conclusion, Lily had to deal with forgiving herself of her mother's death because she always knew that her m...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Tuesday, January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, to the proud parents Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. ... He is not the only person who played a role in changing the world but he definitely stands out as one of the most influencing. ... Later on that year, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. ... King's death was a shock to everyone. ...

• Word Count: 795
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This transition is exposed to readers through the use of three main themes: life, death and prejudice. ... Baldwin regrets not having chances to talk to his father when alive. ... He realized his father had not always been cruel. ... Finally, Baldwin concludes that "blackness and whiteness did not matter" , for a lesson was learnt through his father's death. ... Even though people have motives to generate hate in their hearts, it's not worth it. ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. ... He wanted blacks and rather all races to think differently about themselves, he wanted blacks to think differently about their situation, and he wanted blacks to be proud of their heritage and culture. ... Biko's death promised great sorrow within the anitiapartheid movement and he is remembered as a martyr. ... As the power of the apartheid system grew, so did black consciousness...not only in So...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although IM eventually gives in to the white M.C. who terrorizes him for saying "social equality" instead of "social responsibility" (31), his surrender to the dehumanization is not actually disgraceful, for it gave him the opportunity to "KeepRunning" or to step into his long journey toward identity (33). ... " and "Black men, I'm proud of you" (281), IM gains new will to fight any injustice and unfair reality, and even recovers his pride he has previously lost to the white men at the Battle Royal and Dr. ... Several chapters later, when he se...

• Word Count: 894
• Approx Pages: 4