African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride and an end to stereotyping. ... Supreme Court decisions, as in the case of Brown vs. ... Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. ... The ruling in the Brown vs. ... This arrest unsettled many blacks because Rosa was a very well respected figure. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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The frightened, teenaged Purto Rican defendant is on trial, as well as the jury and the American judicial system with its purported sense of infallibility and fairness. ... This case doesn't turn out well - although Tom's lawyer tries to convince the jurors and the judge that Tom was innocent, they still didn't believe him because Tom is African American. ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This data was use in the Brown vs. ... (Wesley 2) There have been several well-known black women in past history that have suffered from depression, actress Dorothy Dandridge, singer Phyllis Hyman are two who committed suicide due to silent suffering of depression (Starling 3). The singer Jennifer Holiday is a well-known singer and actress on Broadway who suffered for ten years before she admitted publicly that she had more than a case of the blues. ... Jennifer has suffered two failed marriages, the death of her mother, whom showed her nothing but love and security, an absent father whom s...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

This lead individuals to believe that slavery was good for the slaves, and good for the American people as a whole (Alexander, 26). When the demand for more land for the settlers increased, the urgency to get rid of the Native Americans increased as well. ... This resulted in an even larger gap between whites and blacks which contributed to the start of segregation throughout the nation as well as to the racial caste system. ...

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This forces Africans to lose a little of themselves, but also to gain a little of something equally good. ... This trope is evident in many post-colonial works as well. ... A commonly known example of this is Malcolm X vs. ...

• Word Count: 3543
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the constitution was first written, many Americans understood the meaning of the famous inscripture "all men are created equal" to mean that all white males were created equal, likewise with other civil rights guarantees as well. ... Du Bois demanded complete equality for blacks, economic as well as social. ...

• Word Count: 8719
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School