All she intended to do was to go home, but she received this altercation "Are you going to stand up?"" ... Blake then said: "Well, I'm going to have you arrested." ... This woman's case will come up on Monday. ... Their demands were that Black passengers should be treated with respect and courtesy, seating should be apportioned on a first-come-first-serve basis with white passengers sitting from front to back and black passengers from back to front. ... The time has come when you men is going to have to learn to be grown men or scared boys." ...

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Anne enjoyed going to school but sometimes had to stay back and take care of her siblings. ... " "Ed, how much more longer we gotta go? ... Now this old lady had eight cats that also lived on the back porch. ... "She'll run them out and pour that milk out when she come back in," I thought. But when she came back, she just let those cats help themselves. ...

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He goes on to say "the marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidence by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. ... He constantly goes back to the point that it is our responsibility as humans to better our communities and this nation, which is true, but I think that he assumes that with no segregation everything will just flow perfectly and everyone will just get along. .....

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Richard goes over in his mind the different choices he can make to deal with the feelings he has. ... When he comes back home his mother merely gives him more money and sends him back out into the street and the children beat him up again. He comes home again thinking that he will be safe inside the house with his mother. ... He goes out, fights back against the children, and gets to the store with his money. ... The part that I thought was dreary was how Richard Wright was treated and I could not imagine what he was going through at that time. ...

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Situations like this are the ones that lead us to look back and reevaluate our dreams sometimes making our dreams and goals to change. ... In this short story Barbara Ehrenreich decides to leave all her luxuries a side and go into being a low wage worker. ... I feel as though the first thought that comes to mind when someone speaks about the American dream is education. ... Once again we see how our American dream can be affected by our race and were we come from. ... Now days we question why blacks and other races are so set back compared to white people, but it is because of the laws that ...

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The prison industrial complex can legalize discrimination when people who go to jail are labeled "felons for life." ... After someone is labeled a felon, they lose rights to public housing, and it gets really hard for them to find jobs, which is why according to Michelle Alexander, seventy percent of the people who go to jail are right back inside within three months. (78) The prison industrial complex is a new term for slavery, because many companies make millions of dollars daily off having jails so populated and the more populated jails get, the bigger their pockets become. ... As Mich...

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This goes back to the thesis by stating that African Americans had no chance to benefit from society at that time, they had little if any opportunities, and they were alone. ... The one example that stuck out to me the most was when he states that; "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check" (King 616). ... This statement goes back to the thesis because all King wants is for he and other African Americans to be free. ... This statement goes back to the thesis the very same way all King wants is for color of skin not to matter in the world. ... King then emphasizes th...

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"Life is going to give you just what you put in it. ... But the worse part of it, that she does not have people who can care and protect her, that she does not have a place where she can live and feel like at home, where she can always come back and where somebody is waiting for her. ... The all doubts on Margarite's appearance are dispelled when she comes back to St. ... When Margarite comes back to her grandmother in Stamps she feels better because Momma cares her. ... That is why Margarite survives in this world because not to give up and goes to a purposive goal. ...

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Tom lacerates the white man's throat, who later stumbles back to the "white" town to tell the others. ... None of this sneaking that he had to go through now. ... Come out that fact'ry door. " (Toomer, 61). ... Bob swings again and misses, this time coming back with a sharp racial slur, "Get off me you godam nigger you" (Toomer 64). ... Realizing he is going to lose, Bob draws a knife from his pocket in an attempt to save what dignity he has left. ...

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When you oughta be hangin' your head in shame you go along laughin'. ... "I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I got a nickel for you." ... Blacks could not go into restaurants or other public places inhabited by whites. ... Blacks had to sit in the back of buses and other forms of public transportation. ... "Sad, how come?" ...

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They really have to come to grips with reality. ... Until they come to grips with it, there is no problem. ... What is going to happen to the world if people don't start realizing what is happening? ... Unless we start taking action and helping people come to grips with the way they are, we can't combat racism. ... A 49 year old black man by the name of James Bryd Jr. was dragged by the back of a pickup truck (Boven). ...

• Word Count: 1961
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From the day Janie was born people looked and thought that she was going to be different. ... The woman was infuriated and told Nanny the next morning she was going to be whipped to death. ... The first example of Janie being alienated by her society happens when Janie is just a little girl attending school and the other colored children began teasing Janie for "living in the white folk's back yard." ... Nanny, who becomes frantic, tells Janie that for her own good she is going to have her marry Logan Killicks. ... That's how come us don't get no further than we do. ...

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"You go, we go" is a famous phrase often used by firefighters that shows their brotherhood and loyalty to one another. ... We are able to trace firefighting all the way back to the Roman days, all the way back to understanding the start of basic firefighting, and how African American males were able to join the fire department. ... The problem of a fire wasn't ever going to go away, but they began to learn how to control a fire and deal with it, soon it started to become an obsession. ... (Smith) Back then and also sometimes currently, the fire department is known as a male prof...

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The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" ... Instead of pursuing his identity and feeling like an independent adult at school, he is forced to come back to his family where he feels like a child again, and the reader can sense a feeling of resentment in further passages. ... This notion holds her back from being who she wants to be, which comes through in lines such as, "then wants to go out into the ...

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Baldwin explains that a white man can never feel like a stranger wherever he goes, because of his advantage of the assumed distinction and position as an example of authority. ... Baldwin writes, "America comes out of Europe, but these people have never seen America. ... Baldwin writes about how any American Negro wishing to trace his ancestry back to Africa "will find his journey through time abruptly arrested by the signature on the bill of sale which served as the entrance paper for his ancestors" (Baldwin 169). In contrast, he asserts that there are Haitians, Cubans and Braz...

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On a cold, rainy, afternoon, a teenage girl wanders towards the back section of an enchanting, but familiar wonderland. ... CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON MAGAZINE PRODUCTION When you think of the word culture, what comes to mind? Is it the way you talk, the way you dress, the actions that go on in you house on daily basis? ... Another difference between the two would be a difference in opinion when it comes to certain important topics. ... The reporters go out into the community and report back the different topics that are written in the magazines. ...

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Parks recalls the humiliation: "I didn't want to pay my fare and then go around the back door, because many times, even if you did that, you might not get on the bus at all. ... Blacks had to sit in the back and the front rows were for whites only. ... As the boycott continued the white community fought back with terrorism and harassment. ... King told the crowd to go home. ... Still Going...- Rosa Parks did not stop with the Montgomery bus incident! ...

• Word Count: 1975
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• Grade Level: High School

I remember one time going to work with my mom I think in Evanston, Ill. ... There was lots of conversations going around in our neighbor and it was a cheerful time for us. ... It took courage to not hit back and it took courage to fight back for your right to be treated equal. ... Our books would always come for a school on the north side or some white suburban. ... We have come a long way but it's still a challenge today for quality of schools for our children. ...

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He has experienced the trials and tribulations that come along with having that distinction. Essayist and Journalist, Erin Aubry Kaplan, discusses both topics in her essay, Barack Obama: Miles Traveled, Miles to Go. ... It's a world that belongs to all back people. " She goes on to discuss some disadvantages of blacks in America. This brings me back to my idea of the different dynamic of Obama's blackness. ... He should not waiver or change what he believes unless he comes to know what he believes is wrong. ...

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With a african american president, the question still comes up over whether race matters or not. ... Most Americans date interracially because they date one person and it all goes wrong. ... Race comes into a big part of most politics because of our older generation themselves. ... Then there are other facts dated back to the sixties where caucasians thought african americans were equal to them (Abagond). ... It is a change that is soon to come, but we cant hide from it, as much as our society is changing today. ...

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Their main goal was to take back control of Congress, and they were willing to do so by any means necessary. ... The Bourbon family was known for forgetting nothing and learning nothing, so the Redeemers were labeled as Bourbons for their attempts to bring Mississippi back to the way it was before the Civil War2. ... This did not mean they were trying to bring back slavery or take away the blacks right to vote. ... They would personally take groups of white men to the polls or even into neighborhoods to scare Republicans from even going to the polls to vote19. ...

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The poem begins with the instructor giving the class the assignment of writing a paper and asking that what they write comes from within them and only then it'll be truethis is immediately followed by the characters line, "I wonder if its that simple?... Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down, and write this page," (3). ... The character then goes on to state the fact that he is the only african american and lives in Harlem. ... what is it that holds him and his community back? ... Here we fin...

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Only two white people have successfully infiltrated Hip Hop culture, Vanilla Ice did it back in the early 90's and Eminem (Marshall Mathers) is doing it now. ... There are many new films every year that come out in America with the theme of racial issues. ... The one black student in the class is asked her view and basically describes being from the hood and how her friends are trying so hard to make it out of the hood and it seems the white students are trying to go down there. ... I come from the very definition of suburbia and I saw all of this every day. ... The line "I hope they ...

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Value goes hand in hand with pride. In line 14 McKay writes, "show thy little lamp: go forth, go forth" (McKay 401). ... When I read this line showing pride is what comes to mind. ... Keep going and don't falter is what I think he means when he wrote "go forth, go forth". ... African Americans went on to exhibit the same hate that they have come to be accustomed to receiving. ...

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Those changes did not come as expected. ... Martin Luther King's final primer to his Letter from Birmingham Jail was to go into detail what Birmingham was like under Mayor Eugene "Bull" Connor. ... He then goes on to briefly describe the events leading up to the Birmingham campaign and why, despite some disagreement, direct action was the best course of action. ... "Looking back, it is clear that the introduction of Birmingham's children into the campaign was one of the wisest moves we made." ... (King p. 101) These freedoms did not come easily even after the Birmingh...

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