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 ...

• Word Count: 1787
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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...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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...

• Word Count: 2046
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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! ...

• Word Count: 1690
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1313
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• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

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

Beginning in the late 19th century, state and local governments passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws, and mandated restrictions on voting qualifications that left the black population economically and politically powerless. ... As SCLC head, he would later become a central leader in the larger civil rights movement. As late as 1969, only 1 percent of the black students in the Deep South states were attending public schools with whites. After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to...

• Word Count: 1513
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• Grade Level: High School

Although at the beginning of the letter, King appears to regard the clergymen as "fellow clergymen" (142), it becomes apparent later that when he addresses them as equals, he is not trying to be sycophantic, instead sarcastic. ... If the clergymen reading this letter were to argue about whether these rights pertained to the Negro, King would be able to show inconsistency in the clergy's beliefs. ... King later picks up the pace of his argument by reminding the clergy that they have never lived the painful and brutal lives that the Negro has. ...

• Word Count: 1396
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• Grade Level: High School

Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... Black people loved reading his works and hearing him read his poems at public presentations all over the country. ... In his later life, Lawrence experienced an episode of mental illness, the experience of which gave him unique insight into the mind, an...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

A few years later, a woman in Detroit decided that she would pay for all of Mary's expenses at a school in North Carolina called Scotia Seminary. ... Soon after teaching school in Georgia, she taught school in South Carolina, Florida, and later in Illinois. ... When the school opened, it only had five African American girls as students and it was until later that the school would accept boys. ... In addition, she also taught reading, writing, arithmetic, cooking, and sewing. ...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Grade Level: High School

Later on in James' life he changes the path he was headed down and goes down the path of his life where he begins his music and writing career. A personal connection between James' life's circumstances and how he choose to handle it, is when someone very close to me took up the same habits, when they weren't succeeding the same way that they used to, they later broke their habit and is now going to school again. ... There are many connections that people can make to this book while reading it. ...

• Word Count: 1711
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• Grade Level: High School

However, what I find to be most striking about Hughes" was reading about his determined nature. ... In his later works he noted that one of his teacher's constantly made racist jokes and said hurtful and uncalled for comments to Hughes in front of the whole class. ... His mother and grandmother were the founding influences in Hughes" ideas for his later works. ...

• Word Count: 1483
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• Grade Level: High School

DuBois had an almost perfect attendance record at Great Barrington High School, where he excelled academically, out doing his white counterparts in reading, writing, spelling, grammar, and history (Smith & Giovanni; 197). ... In 1958, the Supreme Court ruled that the State Department couldn't demand the signing of a loyalty oath as a way of issuing passports, so DuBois was later granted his passport. ... A few months later on August 27, 1963, DuBois died of natural causes (Hynes). ...

• Word Count: 1675
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• Grade Level: High School

Ten years after arriving in the United States in 1922, he published a sonnet called "Invocation" , and later also wrote and published "The Harlem Dancer". ... He traveled to England and Russia but later returned to Harlem and turned to the teachings of political and spiritual leaders. ... When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ...

• Word Count: 1662
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• Grade Level: High School

Ten years after arriving in the United States in 1922, he published a sonnet called "Invocation" , and later also wrote and published "The Harlem Dancer". ... He traveled to England and Russia but later returned to Harlem and turned to the teachings of political and spiritual leaders. ... When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ...

• Word Count: 1634
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Four years later, Smith moved his household to San Bernardino County, Calif., where Brigham Young was starting a Mormon community. ... Nearly a century later, on March 27, 1988, in a ceremony attended by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and 3,000 members of the First AME Church, a tombstone was unveiled which marked her grave for the first time. ...

• Word Count: 2366
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• Grade Level: High School

I know that it has been around for hundreds of years and when you are done reading this essay, I hope you have learned a lot. ... Bob Cole later teamed up with composer and lyricist John Rosamond Johnson to write the first two black operettas. ...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Black artists flocked to Harlem in the late nineteen twenties. ... Later in his life he went by the name Eugene Pinchback Toomer. ... Five months later, in January of 1916, he moved to Chicago to start his classes. ...

• Word Count: 2498
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although making for interesting reading, his first pieces were no were near impacting (Gates 114). ... Later that year he traveled to the American South to witness firsthand how the promise of America was failing and he provided and preached hope for renewal ("James Baldwin"). ...

• Word Count: 2437
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Four days later, December 5, 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began and lasted for 381 days. ... "Four decades later I am still uncomfortable with the credit given to me for starting the bus boycott. ... Forty years later, despite some tremendous gains, Parks feels, "we still have a long way to go in improving the race relations in this country". ...

• Word Count: 1975
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• Grade Level: High School

Literacy tests were set up and African Americans had to pass a test consisting of reading and writing to allow them to vote. ... Segregation later came to an end for African Americans when the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. ...

• Word Count: 1719
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• Grade Level: High School

It is very dark and a boy, later known as Roger, tries to snatch a woman's purse. ... ("Langston Hughes", par 4 "Critical Reception") Roger was oblivious of the American dream, and Langston hoped people would recognize his flaws and learn to avoid them by reading his story. ...

• Word Count: 1559
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• Grade Level: High School

Her day began before sun up, and did not end until late at night. ... For example, on page 744 of Ways of Reading 6th ed In Walkers essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens- Walker is talking about her mother, and then almost immediately jumps to the "anonymous- black woman who weaved the quilt. ...

• Word Count: 1418
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Later in 1944, ETS was chartered and the SAT was en route to becoming the standard college admissions tool for universities across the nation, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.1). ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...

• Word Count: 1715
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate