However, the citizens of Philadelphia were making it look like they wanted the blacks and immigrants to come back into the city. They told the blacks that they could come back to the city because they had immunity to the disease, when in actuality they only needed the blacks and immigrants to act as caretakers for the white upper class citizens. ... As Wideman wrote, "I was commandeered to rise and go forth to the general task of saving the city, forced to leave this neighborhood where my skills were sorely needed. ... The people the blacks and immigrants came back to were not people fr...

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Inventions, Politics, Jobs all the way back to the motherland Black History has been going on for years and years. ... Blacks had a lot of courage back in then and they had to if they wanted any changes to go down or equal rights. ... Attitude goes quite hand and hand with courage. African Americans had the right mind to go out and make some changes. ... As a summary, Blacks had to follow guidelines to stay strong , alive, and keep their heads up for the best to come. ...

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Both individuals go in for the interview and a week later the white male was hired. ... Another example that comes to mind is when I think of female police troopers. ... The African American people were forced to go to different bathrooms, different stores, and had to sit in the back of the busses simply because they were "black.... When it comes to justice being serve I think of the book To Kill a Mockingbird. ... The church counsel confronted her about it a few days later and they plain told her that she was not allowed to come back to the church. ...

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Washington believed that if the African Americans worked hard in these jobs, and proved themselves useful, equality would come naturally. ... He believed African American leadership should come from well educated African Americans (talented tenth). ... I don't believe that anyone should have to earn equality, but there were a lot of white people with crooked views back then, and simply demanding something to be done about it wasn't going to change their minds. ... I feel that the same ideology applied back in the early 1900's. White people weren't going to give equality...

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When she was a little older she moved back to live with her Mother Dear. ... This was a big deal considering that people back then wouldn"t hire black woman to do that job. This would give young adults more confidence to go for things they think they wouldn"t be able to achieve. ... After everything she went through she was still thankful to have such a wonderful baby boy come into her life. ... If they do have a hard life like Maya's, then they will be encouraged to go through it as strongly and as patiently as she did. ...

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Miss Watson has no remorse when it comes to Jim being separated from his family. ... This just goes to show that back then people viewed white people as superior to blacks, which allowed whites to act out and then walk away free. ... When Huck and Jim cross paths on Jackson's Island, Huck comes to the realization that the two are alike in a variety of ways and even goes to great lengths to save Jim after he's held captive. ... When Jim and Huck come across the dead body of Huck's father, Jim shields Huck by telling him to "Come on in, Huck, but doan' look at his face...

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Brent Staples describes him self as a Black man in society and all the problems that come with it. ... " People always assume to jump to conclusions rather then know whom he is or what is going on in the world. ... The newest argument is that they are all undocumented and that they should be deported back to where they come from. ... Also some people once they have their minds set on something they are not going to changing their viewpoints on life. ... Also with what is going on in life with the Trevon Martin trail to the shooting in Ferguson. ...

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When this happens, it seems to have come to Huck that Jim was still a lower ranking person than he was so he thought that that this prank wouldn't mean anything and nothing serious would have happened. Unfortunately, the snake's mate came back and bit Jim. ... Huck was taught in school that if you helped a black person with anything, you would go to hell. On the other hand, Huck's heart is telling him to go pursue and find Jim and save his friend. ... Huck then just decides to "go to hell" (pg271) and rescue his one true friend. ...

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Crooks gets his name from the shape of his back; hunched over, crooked, and crippled. ... When the other men go to town and only Lennie and Crooks stay behind, Lennie goes into Crooks room to talk to him. ... At times his loneliness manifests itself in bitterness, like when he asks Lennie the hypothetical question "what if George never comes back?". Lennie, being as slow as he is, quickly gets very upset and it is then when Crooks backs down. ... "A guy goes nuts when he aint got nobody. ...

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And when they came back? ... And they left their country to come and rob us acres of what we have" . ... The blacks finally decide that they have to find a way to get their land back. "The time has come. Let my people go. ...

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You go as far as back in the 1820 up 1940s were blacks were exploited in so many ways. ... With in this problem I would like to use the sociological imagination because I can trace back to the history and biography of African Americans. For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. ... My solution this problem is creating more equal jobs giving parents or single moms daycares that would take care of the kids while the mother can go to work. ... As you see this is what I"m talking about like the quotes that I took from Marable say it is all that...

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What has America come to? ... Leave at five or six in the morning and don't come back until later on in the night. ... As the current events were going on in the city, the people of Stamps, Arkansas tried to come and stick together, as many people were getting killed in their town. ... The women of the book later on talks back to the men and make them realize what they are doing and make them change their ways. ... When is all this going to change? ...

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But through the years that is exactly what it has come to. " Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but when ever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, was corked up and had to take a back seat." ... Kids now days do not go up to an African American and call them a nigger. ... He"ll never know hoe nigh he come to getting lynched. ... In this novel there is slavery, because that is what was going on in the 1800's. ... Nigger is a symbol of hatred and in the year 2003 but back in the 1800's that is what you could call an Afri...

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Everybody has the right to dream and the right to make their dreams come true. ... She wants to buy a nice house in a white neighborhood, and even doesn't back down or give up her decisions when the prejudiced representative threatens them. ... So they send the representative and even try to buy the house so that the blacks aren't going to move in. ... But later, because of the decision to move to the new house, they are brought back and decide together. In the difficult times, they stick together to make their dreams" come true, and to prove that, family ties are more important tha...

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If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. ... This society is going out of control, it is known that discrimination is illegal in all 50 states, but it is still in practice. ... For example, back in the 1800's Caucasian people were always considered above other races, and even though in some places is still considered that, many people have gone against not only African-Americans, Asian, Hispanic etc..., but Caucasian people too. In today's society it doesn't matter what your race is, because no mat...

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The restaurant does not close until eleven o"clock but the boys say that the time is no problem and the party will be going strong. The employer decides that they all will go to the party and that a case of beer will be taken along for the birthday present. ... They then left the party to go on home. ... While one wass talking to the husband the other one, one was trying to hit him on the back of the head through a back wing window. ... The advancement of the anti-black has come along way. ...

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Then the movie comes to Annapolis, Maryland in 1765, fifteen years after Kunta Kinte was born, to Mr.Vilars hiring Captain Davies to sail a ship to carry cargo. ... When Captain Davies finds out that his cargo would consist mostly of slaves it brought a dead silence to him and to have a worrisome look come about. ... We then are brought back to Africa to find Kunta to be the size of a fifteen year old boy and have responsibilities of taking care of the families goats. ... While Kunta was guarding the heard of goats he comes across a lepord that had captured the goat that was pregnant. ... When...

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If we reflect back on the history of the United States, we seem to have come a long way in the fight against racism; we even have our first African American president in office. ... Why is it that America has imprisoned so many people and how has it come to be that the minorities of our general population make up the majority of our prison population? ... Many of the young black men in these communities that go to prison leave children behind. ... According to Professor Bill Quigley, "A study by Professor Devah Pager of the University of Wisconsin found that 17% of white job applicants ...

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The main characters George and Lennie go from farm to farm, trying to work up a stake and save enough to buy their own farm. ... George enjoys going to brothels, getting drunk and generally wasting his money. ... "I been here a long time" (75) He can remember people who have come and gone previously. ... He flexed his muscles against his back and shivered" (67) He lives separately to the others in his own room, the harness room. ... Now he knows why, and he hates the fact that he can't come into the bunkhouse to play cards, but has to spend all his free time by himself. ...

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Most people think that we have come very far on the issue of racism. ... It is a huge problem in society that isn't going to be easily solved. ... He promised me, that if I was ever in a situation like that again to call him immediately and he would come to back me up. ... Immediately after, I was back to my original standards of not being racist to anyone. ... The media is always going to do this. ...

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When people think of the 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, accomplishments like leading the union to victory in the civil war or freeing the slaves are most common to come to mind. ... Doesn't being honest come with the responsibility of always staying true to your opinion? ... On September 22, 1862, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves and "pronounced slavery a moral evil that must come to an end.... His whole lifetime Lincoln wanted to free the slaves and send the different people back to where they belong. ... Years after in 1862,in an a...

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During his time there was a lot of racism going against the African Americans at that time. ... I look back at the times and I and I like man just imagine if I was there I would hated not be able to do anything just because I wasn't white. ... The majority of people were white, and he had a lot of competition to go up against. Even to this day, with the constitution being written so long ago people rights have come up and they are now more ahead than they were 50 years ago, but at the same time everyone is not treated one hundred percent equal. Racism is still around today, and is still g...

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Herbie and the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith This essay will seek to explore the similar experiences the characters faced in the movie, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith" and the text "Herbie" by Archie Wellers short stories, Going home. ... Both come from a Aboriginal culture and grew up in a "white mans world." ... As a result of Jimmy going back to his own family and following their culture he was exposed to violence. ...

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Griffin also goes to a drugstore he had entered when he was white. ... This story inspires him to go to Mississippi, a place no Negro likes to be. ... Not all white men Griffin comes across are racist. ... He will go to jail, suffer any humiliation, but not back down"(P.127). ... Griffin slowly starts to make his transition back to a white man. ...

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The same goes for education in the classroom. ... The author took it back to slavery the way the learned to live she writes "From slavery to the present, education has been revered in black communities, yet it has also been suspect." ... However uneducated blacks still encouraged their children to go out and get an education to better their life, but in the process not to lose sight of their heritage and the background they come from. ... She feels professors are afraid to go against the regular way of doing things because they fear criticism by their co-workers and other authorities. ... W...

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