Weekly meetings and night classes were held by UNIA to help blacks that had no high school education. ... Not many helped because they didn't want to be labeled as "Negro."" ... For example, there was a time that blacks did not believe that they'd be free one day, but Garvey knew better. ... Garvey was sentenced to three months in Spanish Town Prison for contempt or court. ... Garvey's newspapers helped him spread his ideas around. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. ... Prince Henry helped unlock the secrets of Africa. ... Just a few years earlier, Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

I built great castles in Spain and lived therein. ... This psychological attack on the modernistic minds of African Americans has helped to support W.E.B. ... In his book Du Bois says, "A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers But say to a people: "The one virtue is to be white," and the people rush to the inevitable conclusion, "Kill the 'nigger'!...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By that, meaning the whites needed the blacks in order to keep their lives organized and crazy-free and the blacks needed the whites to help keep their lives suitable by working. ... But with the help of a military psychiatrist, he was able to turn his life around and actually enjoy it. ... Her childhood days was growing up speaking Spanish with her dad who thought he was Puerto Rican. ...

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