Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. ... In addition, affirmative action helps colleges obtain a diverse student body, which supposedly has many educational benefits. The diversity helps prepare students for the future through exposure to various different cultures. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students aside from ensuring that the student body contains a critical mass of underrepresented minority students. ... Although a diverse student body may produce some positive q...

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However, this proposition could have served as motivation to minority students. ... These boosts often do not help the minority student in the long run as Source C points out, stating, "Some minority students who get into a top school with the help of affirmative action might actually be better served by attending a less elite institution to which they could gain admission with less of a boost or no boost at all. " The removal of these boosts and benefits presented to minorities might encourage some to take their schoolwork more seriously and actively compete for acceptance into top-tier col...

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Woodruff worked through the depths of the Great Depression in order to find a teaching job that would influence the poor students of Atlanta. ... He learned at the Herron Art Institute, which had a total of forty students. ... In the University Library, Woodruff would annually host an exhibition of commencement week, where he influenced students to invent their own unique style of art. ... While teaching in Atlanta, Woodruff influenced his students to find their own style, ensuring that not every style worked for anyone. He encouraged his students to enter their original works into local art c...

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SCLC began to teach students about the passive resistance technique in hope that they would use it. The students formed their own association, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. ... At one sit-in, King was arrested with all the students but was denied bail. ... He attended Mason Junior High, where he was the only black student. ... The Nation of Islam was passive even though it encouraged self...

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It amazes me that discrimination and racism carries on today, especially among such younger generations such as college students. ... Although it was the first time a sorority had been accused of racial discrimination, one student made the comment thatAlpha Gamma Delta probably aren't the only ones who do it? ... According to Richard Mullendore, vice president of student affairs, few African American students choose to participate in membership recruitment, or rush, which shepherds participants from one predominantly white sorority to another? ... There were many in the fraternity who enc...

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In it they claimed that the Supreme Court had exceeded its judicial authority, and encouraged school districts to subvert the decision. ... In show of his opposition, in 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order, and with the aid of national guardsmen, attempted to prevent the admittance of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High school. ... The SCLC wanted to compliment the NAACP legal strategy by encouraging the use of nonviolent, direct action demonstrations and boycotts. ... On February 1, 1960, four black college students from North Carolina A&T Un...

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There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ... Washington and his students built the school from the ground up. ... It taught students both academic and vocational training. Under Washington's direction, the students built their own buildings, produced their own food, and provided for most of their own basic necessities. ... Washington encouraged black progress in economic and educational opportunity. ...

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Their parent encouraged them all to strive for excellence and the pursuit of knowledge. ... It encouraged open discussions about segregation and debates on racial issues. At prestigious, all-male Morehouse, nicknamed the "Negro Harvard," students stayed up late discussing the pressing issues of the day. ...

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During his teaching there, one of the students was Kimberly Wilder who had a learning disability. ... Wilder expressed that rather than teaching students about ignorance, he should be teaching students about the greatness of things. ... Tarkington College is holding back their students from knowing the truths of the world around them. Hartke explains that teaching students about negative aspects and difficult obstacles of life will open up their eyes to the real world. ...

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These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... However, research indicates that "African Americans tended to be concentrated in schools that are academically inadequate, since those schools with a majority of African American students tended to be vocational or technical, special education, or alternative schools rather than regular schools" ( Nettles & Perna, 1997a, p. 59). ... This is not encouraging, given that fewer than fewer than 4% of black males are enrolling in college...

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Instead of allowing yourself to be consumed by pain, Langston encouraged people to reach deep inside of themselves for a resolution. ... He was an excellent student all around. ... They would also tell him stories of black history, and encourage him to try to make positive changes someday. ...

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They had always encouraged her to get involved in different things and as a child at school she was a well-rounded student. ... Yet she grows discouraged when African-American students do not take full advantage of the opportunities they have." ...

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DuBois was the only black student in a class of 12 to attend school and was very popular with his white classmates. ... Painter, encouraged him to attend college. ... DuBois received scholarships to pay for tuition at Harvard and as a student he was focused on philosophy. ...

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Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary; they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, "On Messrs. ... The countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, was a friend of the Wheatley's who greatly encouraged and financed the publication of her book of poetry, Poems. ... She was asked to join Sigma Xi, an unusual honor for a master's student. ...

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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of womanhood, one that could encompass fiercely competitive sports as well as homemaking skills and tea parties. ... Student athletes desired to perform their best, because of the attitude and commitm...

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African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. ... As a high school student at Central High in Cleveland, Langston read the works of many black writers. ...

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His works inspired many students and scholars. ... However, with his works, he encouraged the people to break all the barriers, and fight for the equality they deserved. ... Even though, he knew it was hard to make a living from poetry, he encouraged many young poets to achieve their interest. ...

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Cullen encouraged Baldwin to participate in the school's literary club, which he was the advisor of Baldwin was enchanted by Cullen's warmth (Smith 236). ... Set in Paris, this novel tells the story of a love affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ...

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It had an all-black student body and an all-white teaching staff in the prestigious Centehnial Hill neighborhood which was where the cities most inspiring and influential African Americans lived (Delphine, 2012). ... Rosa Parks was encouraged by many throughout her childhood and young adult life to stand up for the rights of African Americans and so became an activist. ...

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Rosa Parks: The Great Influence "To this day I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." (Blum. 2002, March). Rosa Parks said this in an interview in March in the year of 2002 and she...

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Life And Times Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920's that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in Harlem, New Y...

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Rosa Parks: Life and Times Thesis Statement- Rosa Parks, through protest and public support, has become the mother of the civil rights changing segregation laws forever. Life - Rosa Parks was born only a month before world war one started in Europe on February 4, 1913. Parks mother worked as a sc...

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