His younger brother Reginald steered him towards Allah and the Islamic beliefs. ... He also found that America was alone in its ideas that white people were superior to blacks. ... He had many personal troubles also bothering him, such as when his younger brother Reginald was silenced and removed from the Muslim movement. Malcolm was so pressured by his social institution that he turned his back to his brother. ... Also, about the time he found out about this, he found out that Muhammad praised Malcolm to his face, but behind his back he tore him apart. ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Angela became an advocate for black political prisoners, and she openly spoke in defense of the inmates George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, also known as the Soledad brothers. After guards at Soledad Prison killed George Jackson, his younger brother Jonathan, attempted to free another prisoner from a Marin County, California courthouse by taking hostages. ... From her childhood up unto her adulthood, she always exemplified the spirit of activism, and she always found a cause worth fighting for. ... Angela has found many forums to get her message across to the masses such as the Black Panther...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5

When his band coach found out he could not read music, he felt so betrayed because that is one of the requirements for the band. ... "I found God in myself and I loved her." ... When they found out that their master and mistress were going to get a divorce, it scared them. ... The main two characters, Lincoln and Booth, were brothers and each had their own way of looking at life. ... He was very nice and welcoming to his brother Booth, but Booth was always looking for the easy way out of things. ...

• Word Count: 1924
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

However, both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban League (NUL) were founded by blacks and whites during this time. ... His step-father soon found work for Booker and his brother John. ... After working in the coal mine for some time, his mother found a position for him as a house boy for the Ruffner Family. ... There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in a group. I had never seen my brothers or sisters; though I had sometimes heard of them" (Douglass p48). Soon after being introduced to his brothers and sisters, his grandmother was forced to discretely leave him. ... "Riding from Boston to Albany, I found myself in a large car, filled with passengers. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

My brother and I are extremely close and love each other very much. ... In my case my brother did the same to me. ... It caused me to push him out of my life and basically "take a break" from him, My own brother. ... This is just like with my brother and me. Even though I was furious with every thing he did, he was still my family and i found it in my heart to forgive him. ...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Not only is he found guilty of violating the Immorality act, but he is also disowned by his father for violating society's ideal of racial purity. ... By comparison with her stern, unforgiving brother, she is more tolerant and compassionate; but, even with all these wonderful traits Sophie's understanding is limited in many respects. ... It is Sophie's brother Jakob who points out her biggest problem as the narrator. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America's first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle Tom in Edwin S. ... (Bogle, 7) The Pickaninny provided audiences with an amusing diversion, and soon found his way into the hearts of the mass audience. ... This character found its pinnacle of success in Rastus, a good-for-nothing Negro featured in a series of films released between 1910 and 1911. The final coon brother would emerge as the eager to please metaphoric cousin to the tom. ...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Following in the footsteps of his father, who was very well educated himself, and his older brother, who went off to medical school, Paul was anxious to learn and it was shown through his grades. ... He later went on to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that his father and oldest brother had set for him. ... Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Paul Robeson. ...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jim, "Is a Frenchman a man?" " "Yes,"" replies Huckleberry. "Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"" (80). Believing that all men are the same, Jim simply cannot seem to understand the fact that all men do not speak the same language. Thomas Jefferson's idea of "...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He investigated, found evidence, witnesses, and evidence for the prosecution. ... When he returned from the war, he and his brother were once again hit with a reality check that would again spark his drive to fight for civil rights. Once he returned home, Medger, his brother, and four registered to vote. ...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He also finds out that Frank Green was Daphne's half brother and that her real name was Ruby Hanks. ... For example, when Coretta spoke to Easy about Daphne and the next morning she had been found murdered with a blow to the head. ... I found out later on that it was because Terell was threatening him; that he was going to tell the world that he was engaged to a woman who was half black. ...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

DuBois grew up in a large family that consisted of his mother, older brother, aunts, and cousins; they were called the "Burghardt clan". ... He was forced back to Harvard where he found himself studying history instead of philosophy, which was more useful to make a living. ... In 1909, DuBois helped founded the most influential civil rights organization of the 20th century: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ... DuBois was the only black officer in the early years of the NAACP and was elected as one of its founding officers in 1910 (Thomas Gale). DuBois left...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin spent much of his time in libraries and found his passion for writing (236). ... Ross states that "Baldwin found in homosexuality a clear path of desire" (634). ... This is a story of how two African Americans brothers take their own path through life as they struggle to find meaning in their lives. ... According to Brenda Smith, "While Herb Boyd probes the ways in which Harlem influenced the thought that found expression in Baldwin writing, Randall Kenan traces the development of what he reveals as one of Baldwin's predominant belief from the beginning to the end o...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

It went racing, searching for blood, it found blood. ... Using the fingerprints found on the rifle and Galt's belongings, the FBI ran a crosscheck against known fugitives. ... The hunch paid off when Galt's fingerprints were found to match an escaped convict named James Earl Ray. The F.B.I investigators found Ray in London where he was plotting to rob a bank. ... The court found no evidence of his conspiracies and he returned to prison. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial dating, Baldwin found social freedom and privacy while in Europe. ... Many found it interesting that Baldwin chose a white person to portray himself. ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Of course, even those who are not in the same position as, say, the president of the United States of America itself, but in the complete opposite side, still found hope and wanted to believe in all America's hope, prosperity, and liberty it preached about having. ... Especially when he claims that the black man is not even yet free – "The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins" (535) – for so many of the black community are still being persecuted simply for the color of their skin, the coarseness of their hair, or the shape and structure of their face. ... &qu...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through my research, I have found Hughes" younger years the most influential for his life works. ... His mother and grandmother were the founding influences in Hughes" ideas for his later works. ... "I am the darker brother. ...

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He also read novels dealing with life in the American South, which he found "untrue and unreal." ... Despite Colonel Dye's attempts to keep them, Joe and Jane soon move to a ranch near the Texas-Louisiana border where Joe has found a job breaking horses. ... Timmy looks and acts more like Robert than does Tee Bob, and the two boys are close friends even though Robert and Miss Amma Dean still expect Timmy to be subservient to his brother since Timmy is black. ...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Brother Logan Killicks, he's a good man.......You answer me when Ah speak. ... In her marriage to Logan, she found out that that's not what she wanted. ... Janie found what she was looking for. ...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She tells the story of a magnificent friendship between two young women living in Alabama in the 1930s, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jameson, who forge a powerful bond after witnessing the terrible tragedy of Idgie's brother's death together. ... After her brother's death, Idgie spends her adolescent years living in the woods, cutting herself off from her family, obtaining her socialization by drinking and gambling with the town's men. ... Idgie and George are the prime suspects for five years, when Frank's truck is found in the river Idgie and George are arrested. ...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

However, Shakur was found guilty of the murder of both the state trooper and her companion Zayd Shakur, for her presence at the gun battle. ... He came to court with a rifle under his jacket to try to free the Soledad Brothers. ... He was trying to free his brother, George Jackson who was a revolutionist and writer. ...

• Word Count: 1865
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Willie, Sam's friend and co-worker, is the least clearly-realized character in the story; he seems to function as a little brother whom Sam tries to guide and advise as he does Hally. (Paul Brians observes that "boet-, an epithet often applied by Willie to Sam, means "brother) (Brians, fugard.html)). ... There is no way of knowing whether Hally's father actually uses this expression or not, though we have no reason to disbelieve it; however, it is extremely unlikely that Hally would ever have found it amusing given the depth of his feeling for Sam and Willie. ...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While in prison, his brother Reginald visited him and told him of the nation of Islam, and the teachings of the leader and prophet Elijah Muhammad. ... "My black brothers and sisters - no one will know who we are ... until we know who we are! ... In 1964 he terminated his relationship with the Nation of Islam and founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. ...

• Word Count: 2097
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School