Though some of these stereotypes may be true -- except reverse racism because that's literally impossible -- has anyone stopped to think that African Americans have the right to be angry? ... Men fell all around me How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell but I am here. ... " He continues to tell them to act with the law of retaliation: an eye for an eye. ... The vignette The Lynching of a Postmaster, 1898 depicts the story of a Black postmaster, William Baker. ... The document Jack Trice Fights his Attackers tells the story of Jack Trice and how he defies his attackers agains...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He tells stories of savage beatings, as well as the unnecessary and unreasonable strife that was inflicted upon Negroes. ... This is very true of Douglass. ... Douglass and Jacobs speak in a more secular tone and their story is less of a journey. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divided between two cultures. ... Where these two narratives differ is the fact that Jacobs is a woman and tells her experience from a woman's point of view. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Giovanni's Room was a partially autobiographical story of his homosexuality. ... In 1961, Baldwin received true recognition for his literary skills. ... Charlie was based on the true story of a racial murder occurrence in Mississippi in 1955. ... First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. ... This is not true. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Often, Washington is angrily deferred to as an "Uncle Tom" where Dubois is championed as the true hero of African-American ideals. ... We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, Du...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate