Hughes wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen of television and radio scripts, and magazine articles. ... (Hughes 91) He writes that all the white kids are free, that they have no worries about not being free. But Hughes says that it doesn't bug them, that it is no worry that black people cannot be president, how everyone is free in their eyes. ... (Hughes 91) That black people are not free, they are tr...

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By saying this, the ex-colored man can live his life free of fear from the white man and lead a better life than a black would. ... Through out his journey the ex-colored man wanted to be known for his abilities as an artist all over the world and not just in the black society and not just seen as a black man in the white society, so the ex-colored man began to course into books and music in order to forget his black culture. ... "There were two immediate reasons of my forced loneliness; I began to find company in books and greater pleasure in music" (Chapter 2). ...

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Where those people once had homes and where free till the one day the White man took them and bought them back to a new world which then leads to history and that this point I can trace a chronological records of significant events such as slavery, the civil right movement and the civil right act. ... Most of the public schooling does not have books less teachers the class are so big and that the teachers can't teach the student they have old books and they don't have updated books so when the black kids take the sat they are not prepared because the lack of resources available to th...

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He was a slave who was freed. ... When the slaves learned they were free there was a feeling of excitement, followed by one of the reality that they were now responsible for providing for their families, shelter, food, clothing and a better way of life. ... In many ways, I think he felt it was more important to have food on your table rather than books in your hands. ...

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One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that "You can't ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks ) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated "separate but equal" had been the laws on the books, but laws in action or rather the lack of laws in action had been totally absent from social reality of black people. ... They were designed to govern movement, marriage, work relations, and most major aspects...

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Church was in the quarters outside the southern town limits... called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves.... "Cal', I whispered "where are the hymn-books?" "There was no sign of a piano, organ, hymn-books, church programs......

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The two books were the first works by an African American to be published by a major publishing house. ... He was a strong voice against the disfranchisement of African Americans, the showing of racist movies such as "The Birth of The Nation" and the publication of books denigrating African Americans. ... Another episode that certainly affected Douglass struggle to be free was his Fight with the slave-breaker Edward Covey. ...

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By the end of his literary career, he had produced more than sixty books. ... Within a short time McCarthy himself was discredited and Hughes was free to write at length about his years in the Soviet Union in I Wonder as I Wander in 1956. ... Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality....

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Langston's father left home to live in Cuba and then Mexico to free himself from the Jim Crow laws and segregation. ... In the second grade Langston was introduced to books and soon became fascinated with literature. ...

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Ever since the NAACP has started, they have worked furiously in trying to bring new and equal books and tools into the schools and on top of that, bring races together in schools to have mutual understandings of one another. ... This department provides free legal assistance to the victims of civil rights violations. ...

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He did not see a free black man, working along his father as an equal; he was brought up thinking that blacks were supposed to be less respected than whites like him. ... The document discussed the need and want for owning property, elections and voters, and also "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion- (The Virginia 156). ... Would they had lost their powerful status and eventually been forgotten in the history books? ...

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Hughes says in his response: Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing Blues penetrate the close ears of the colored near-intellectuals until they listen and perhaps understand Let the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimmer of their own beauty. We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves (1271). ...

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