Both groups were the driving force behind the Civil Rights Movement and the leaders at the time. ... During the 1950's, racial separation in public schools, especially southern schools, was not looked at as a problem for many people. ... Children that came from white families and were white themselves would attend school with only white children. ... Although all the schools in a "separate but equal" community were supposed to be the same, most schools that only allowed African Americans were far inferior to their white counterparts. When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter in...

• Word Count: 3309
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

I agree with Cone's thesis because in my public school I learned nothing about Malcolm X. ... King and X were the two largest driving forces behind the majority of the progress made in the Civil Rights Movement, however within the public school I realized that Malcolm X is not mentioned and that only Martin Luther King's legacy of nonviolence is celebrated. In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. ... After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only referred to hate and evil but never his love, hi...

• Word Count: 2721
• Approx Pages: 11

In many schools across the nation, the Emancipation Proclamation is praised as one of the greatest documents to ever happen to the black man. ... According William Julius Wilson, in his book When Work Disappears, "the overwhelming majority of African-Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded, schools lacking basic resources....

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography

Ruth interrupts the conversation to tell Macon about his driving. ... He and Guitar don't see much of each other, but occasionally skip school and spend the day together. ... Hospital Tommy asks them why they aren't in school, using the high diction of a professor. ...

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

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate