Dreams start out simple and later grow complex. ... Langston Hughes wrote one poem and it was titled two different titles throughout his life, each title gives the poem a profoundly different reading. Reading this poem with the title "Dream Deferred" makes it universal, anyone can relate to it. ... Reading "Dream Deferred" is a self exploring, thought provoking poem about the past and future for you. ... has much more meaning with the title "Harlem" because later there was up-roar and riots, as if society were exploding. ...

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Writing from the perspective of a black man, Staples makes his point right away in the essay by describing an encounter with a white woman while he is out for a late night walk. ... While I was reading the essay and for a long time afterwards, whenever I reflected upon the experiences of Mr. ... I thought I understood all of the aspects of it, but I realized after reading the essay that I only had a grasp of racism from an academic perspective, not a human perspective. ... Writing from the perspective of a black man, Staples makes his point right away in the essay by describing an encounter ...

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Douglass' intrigue of learning, despite disadvantages, shows how he really loved reading and kept a passion for it. ... He struggles everyday just to get reading and writing lessons. ... Taking away reading and writing from Frederick and Richard is like taking away food from starving children. ... On a positive note, Richard did eventually get to attend school, which didn't come till later on in Frederick's behalf. Richard's grandmother hindered his ability to learn because she thought that reading novels was a sin and that the only reading he should have been doing w...

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• Grade Level: High School

One was sleeping and the other reading a newspaper. The one reading got beaten by his white boss only because the white man felt threatened that the black man might end up being as smart or even smarter than a white man. ... They kept getting reconvicted over and over until after 6 years of prison just though the court system, all were released except one who was later paroled and pardoned. ...

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Later he would take his interests in civil rights and form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, otherwise known as the NAACP. Du Bois eventually became fed up with the way he was treated in the United States so he picked up his things and moved to Africa where he became a citizen of Ghana and later died. After reading all of these things about Du Bois I thought to myself how could a man who never really had to deal with any hardships preach to other African Americans, telling them to fight for their rights and to do something with their lives. ... I believe that by r...

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The book I read was called Martin Luther King, Jr. The author is Jean Darby. I picked this book because I like reading about someone who was fighting for what they believed in. The main character is Martin Luther King, Jr. The minor characters are Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, and James Meredith...

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Venita, who is also black, is shot days later during a gang fight and this proves to Macey that no matter how hard her town tries to hide it they are prejudice. ... Opinion: My really liked this book because it keeps you reading until your eyes get tired. ... The pain it can cause, and how it can still effect someone later on in generations, from your family. ...

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Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. ... She later changed her first name to Harriet, which was her mother"s name. ... On one occasion, she overheard some men reading her wanted poster, which stated that she was illiterate. ... She later received an official commendation, but no pay for her efforts. In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Davis who later died in 1890. ...

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He overcame a childhood of slavery and illiteracy to become the most prominent educator and leader of black Americans during the late 19th and early 20th century. ... As I began reading Washington's autobiography I became rather intrigued with the language and tone he uses when portraying his life as a young boy during his hard times of slavery and thereafter. ... Upon reading further I began to understand that Booker T. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the leading members of the society was a teacher at Princeton (and later President) Woodrow Wilson who was adamantly against the desegregation of schools. ... This educational escapade would also set the foundation for how Paul later in his life whenever faced with adversity was able to overcome it and do it with grace and humility. ... While in Grammar school he also took a keen liking to sports, which would later lead to a college sports career and brief career playing professionally. ... At first when I started to read this book I wasn't at all interested in it, I was merely rea...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the readings so far in the book African American Literature I have learned that African slaves would tell stories to keep hope of becoming free someday. ... For example, in How Buck Won His Freedom, Buck outsmarted his master by acting as if he couldn't speak proper english then, later, by imitating his master he gained his freedom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sweeney had 2 PhD's and that he had them reading black literature. ... In the dinner scene Derek explains that he is reading black literature in English class. ... In the dinner scene with his father he warns Derek to read the literature Sweeny makes him, take the test, Ace the test, but don't believe any of the information Sweeny is telling him or the literature there reading. 12. ... Is it too late for Danny to change? ...

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It was when Maya returned to live with her grandmother that she discovered reading, great literature and the endless possibilities of her creativity. ... She later met the renowned African American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey with whom she formed the unsuccessful dance team ˜Al and Rita'. ... Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana while Guy attended the University. ... A few years later, at the request of Mar...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Uncovering the truth regarding a sensitive time in history can be accomplished through reading novels often deemed controversial, in this case, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. ... Through reading this novel, students can further understand the deep rooted racial segregation between black and white Southerners, and the absurdity of the laws the deep South enforced against African-Americans. ... My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, ˜Let up on me "it ain't too late yet "I'll paddle ashore at the first lig...

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In addition, he states how Morgan's acquisition of Carnegie and Rockefeller's industrial empires combined would eventually set the stage for financiers to truly control the power of the industries and, along with the rise of poverty in large urban areas & the anger of the discontent rural population, would contribute to the later populist and silverist movements. ... What I found most interesting while reading The Reckless Decade was the way Brands described the political battles between Bryan and McKinley leading up to the 1896 presidential election. ...

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Because it lies in the relative beginning of the book, one may assume that this tidbit of educational fodder is meant to be kept in the back of the mind while reading on. ... The same may be said when, later on in the work, the author states, "[the race war] is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. ... Johnson utilizes a slightly different style yet later in the text to reach a similar goal. ...

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His grandmother was the first black women to attend Oberlin College, in Ohio, and bestowed the values of reading books and education. ... Later that evening Lindsay read Hughes" poem to an audience announcing them as his discovery of a "Negro Busboy." ... Later in his life he got involved in Drama. ...

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By reading the principal's speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the thing he hated so much. ... Whites domination over blacks was apparent in Richard's life as he described the horrendous beating of a black woman who did not pay her bills, and his later match with a car of white boys. ... This teaching influence him later in life because he does not let anyone hit him, unless his mother is punishing him for something. ... From reading this novel, it had increased my knowledge further, from what I knew be...

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His mother's philosophy of suffering to wait for a later reward is equally stagnating -- to Bigger it appears that she is weak and will not fight to live. ... Just as Bigger later hides himself amidst the catacombs of the old buildings, many people hide themselves deep within their minds in order to bear the ordeal of life and the oppression of an uncaring society. ... His own mother believes in him no more than the billboard reading you can't win that he sees each day outside his apartment. ... When he says, upon reading the paper No! ...

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In a court case, a student's mother, Kathy Monteiro, an African American, unsuccessfully attempted to sue her daughter's high school, McClintock High School, because The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a required reading in her child's English class. ... The Pennsylvania branch of the NAACP also agreed with Monteiro on the subject that the novel was "psychologically damaging" in an attempt to ban the novel from reading lists . ... In one newspaper review from the late 1800s, the book was reviewed as a good book, and that person viewed the book as one that involuntarily taugh...

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She first started reading to escape from the problems of her daily life. ... Later she realizes that any sexual act is a sin and she vows never to do it again. ... I know that when I was reading this I thought about the stories that my mom told me about her childhood. ...

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At the age of three Oprah was reading the Bible, speaking in church, and presenting memorized Bible verses to her grandmother's friends. ... Years later, she was abused by an uncle and a family friend, all of which she kept silent (Squire,1994). ... The baby died two weeks later (Childress, 2010). ... At the age of 16, Oprah read Mary Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" over and over, later quoted saying ,"I read it over and over; I had never before read a book that validated my existence.... She would later compete in a beauty pageant; Miss Fire Preventio...

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When I first started reading, I thought she was racist but as I write this paper, I have come to realize that it was in her nature to write like this to teach the reader about the history of the South and what went on from the 17th century to the 1960's. ... Later in the day, a new arrest warrant was issued for Stephenson on the charge of assault with the intent to commit murder. Later that night several police officers were wounded...

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Except for a few examples, all his poems from this later period spoke about social injustice in America. ... This festive relationship between the two sexes can rarely be seen in any of Hughes' later poems. ... - It intensity makes the reader anxious just from reading it. ... Only now, ten years later, we see that it is the whites that profit from his talent. ...

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Ultimately, African Americans resisted the oppressive conditions of the United States as discussed throughout the documents of Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African-American History. ... Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. ... The documents of Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African History depict the Black's attempts to join the Union Army. ... Organized resistance continued throughout the ...

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• Grade Level: High School