The NAACP was a civil rights organization which included mainly American blacks, but this organization included many whites as well. ... Before the NAACP was founded there was a lot of racial discrimination against the blacks, most importantly there was a lot of lynching going on. ... Here are some important dates for the NAACP after it was formed: 1918 for many years" colored people were getting lynched for reason. ... At 1930 they had won the protest and the Supreme Court was forced to make a law against the discrimination of colored people 1941 During World War II, the NAACP...

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This setting is the most important fictional element that affected the theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Decades after the civil war, Southerns still were incensed that they lost the war. ... During the year of Jem and Scout's father's case; "the school buzzed with talk about him(Atticus) defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary."... Southererns disliked blacks since the black gained more rights after the civil war. ... Since the white people did not know the black people well, they just assumed bad things about them and believed untrue rumors about t...

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During that time of the Civil War, the African-Americans who fought experienced racial discrimination and abuse. ... One of the people that we see who mistreated the African-Americans was Colonel James Montgomery. ... These soldiers endured a lot of pain to gain equality, such as unequal pay and getting the proper equipment for the war. Uniform and shoes were an important gear for the war. ... This movie changed the public views on them, they proved to the people of that time, that they're part of the country and people like them deserve acceptance and equality....

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Racism in "A Worn Path- In Welty's "A Worn Path-, Phoenix Jackson's encounters with other characters as well as her thoughts and perceptions demonstrate a theme of impending black equality in the south after the civil war. ... The world that Phoenix lives in is a much different world than the one of today where equality is important. ... This statement seems to be referring to the blacks struggle to attain equality in a very unequal world during this period of unrest following the years of the civil war and the release of the slaves. ... He makes light of the fact that she is on, w...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, within the combined efforts of The Great Migration of the post war era, the work of organizations on the national level, as well as the effort of everyday African-Americans, an overall push from segregation to civil rights resulted. ... However, people did eventually begin to fight against the system. ... This American dissention was especially dangerous and important because of its un-American stance. ... During this time there was no longer room for the passive African Americans, willing to accept the white man's cruelty. ... Led by the National Association for the Adva...

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During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate States fought because of strong sectionalism. ... Power was very important to Shaw and he always felt the need to reinforce it, for fear that soldier may grow too accustomed to his leniency. ... Private Trip was too full of hate to make it in the world, his hate towards white men started out as his love for his people, but soon, he was full of hate for his own people as well, his fellow colored soldiers, who chose to conform and not fight back because they felt life was good. ... Most places where one can read up about the Civil War, it has...

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In the middle of the 1930's and close to the end of World War I, an artistic explosion of talent and social growth had begun. ... There is one of the more important lines that stands alone and it reads," My soul has grown deep like rivers" (Langston Hughes n.d.). ... Claude McKay's role during the Harlem Renaissance 1920's was just as important as Langston Hughes. ... Both artists embraced the principle of "double consciousness "that was important to the survival of the black people living in America in the years of 1919-1920 showing detailed images of black ...

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After the First World War broke out in the early 1900s, North and West cities faced a shortage of industrial laborers. ... More importantly, the major pull factor of The Great Migration was job opportunity. Since there was a departure of thousands of European immigrants and Northern soldiers during the First World War, numerous jobs were available for black southerners. ... In the North, black men were considered political people who even had the rights to vote and hold office (193). ... Because of this the "New Negro" movement was born and the transformation of blacks from a predom...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was written during the realism period after the Civil War and in this novel Mark Twain satirizes romanticism, religious hypocrisy, and racism. ... I think Twain was saying that people during this time were hypocrites, they go to church to make themselves look good in front of other people, they don't really take it seriously. ... The most important issue during this time is racism, and Mark Twain was satirizing this issue when Huck argued to Jim about the Frenchmen and Jim said, "Is a Frenchman a man?...... Twain was saying that people during this time considered black people to have...

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The book is set in the 1930s in Southern America just after the civil war when blacks were seen as an inferior race and whites are superior. ... Each character in the book is 'infected' by other people's fear, which creates a society of people who conform. ... Terrorism and terrorist attacks create fear and can quite often be the cause of wars but are all people from these countries terrorists? ... A great example of this is when Boo doesn't come out of the Radley house during the day so the town's people fear him and make up a cruel nicknames that claim he is a monst...

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During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... Lula represent the whites power in America during that time. ... But it does not quite work; the country cracks apart into war between the slave south and the free north. ... The play primarily pointed out several fault of people and of the society as a whole. ... The accommodationist ideology of the Civil Rights movement was about to be challenged by the new, often separatist, accents of Black Nationalism. ...

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The story is set in the time of the Civil War. ... Her family disowns her, however, because they disprove of her associating with such people, believing them to be unworthy of an education. ... Another important symbol in the story is the black stallion. ... Ned later went on to become an activist on civil rights and equality in his society. ... He was the heir to the Samson Plantation on which Jane worked for a period of time during her life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He felt the superiority our nation withheld, came when many of the wars were fought. Fulbright said the only reason we went to war was because of the unfathomable drive of human nature. ... One place in Malcolm's Ballot or Bullet, where he categorized whites with violence and cruelty, was during a passage in which he compared the white man with a Guerrilla warrior. ... Also, people would not be faced with civil rights filibustering. ... This is important because it shows that it is possible for whites and blacks to work together for a single purpose. ...

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That is what America needs now is people control. ... Having segregated schools, and water fountains, many blacks and civil rights leaders demanded for a change. ... In this book Maya describes her life growing up as a young insecure African American girl in the South during the 1930's and in California in the 1940's. ... When Joe Lewis won the world boxing championship, it began to be important in the black communities and an inspiration to many of the children at that time. ... The government spends more money on war, than trying to prevent crimes and funding the schools for chil...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School