This is we first get a glimpse of how important reading and writing are to Richard. ... When he moves out on his own, he has enough money to get a library card where he spends so much time reading from great authors. ... Let me first start of by saying that I really, really enjoyed reading this book. ... The books theme which I stated at the beginning is an autobiographical book, but when reading it, it didn't seem like that. ... The autobiographical book Black Boy; I would seriously recommend anyone who is interested in how a black child, later a black man can overcome such fear and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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The story picks back up eight years later with Twyla working behind the counter at a Howard Johnson restaurant near Kingston, New York. ... The narrative picks up twelve years later at the Food Emporium in Newburgh, New York. ... The presence of Maggie, the mute kitchen worker with sandy-colored skin, later provides a unique stimulus into the self-perception of racial identification. ... The two girls' readings of Maggie become in turn clues for our readings of them, readings that emanate similarly from our own cultural locations"" (Abel 472). ... "The girls must struggle with their diff...

• Word Count: 1383
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Ossie Davis's Escape to Freedom Fred was enlightened by the idea of reading. ... Despite the persecutions against the knowledge of reading for Fred, he was finally able to read through the East Baltimore Improvement Society. "We practiced reading and writing and discussed the news sent to us by the abolitionists... ... Devon was an extraordinary drummer, he had a talent to listen to music and play exactly what he had heard without reading the music. ... It was all about having the honor and discipline to learn his craft completely, which he later realized. ...

• Word Count: 1924
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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...

• Word Count: 1652
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(1971: xii), a collection of readings on the economic effects of slavery, Hugh G. ... They were written by those experience slavery, rather than some studying it possibly many years later. ... This should be kept in mind when reading the narratives. ... Douglass later apologised to Auld for this, admitting that his intention was to make Auld "a weapon with which to assail the system of slavery" (1990: 6). ...

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She helped him with reading and writing little words and Douglass was getting the hang of it. ... This made him want to learn more about reading and writing. He had to find a way that he could learn more about reading and writing, and try to maintain quietness, so, that his Master would not find out. ... Some time later Douglass returned to the plantation and Mr. ... As Douglass meets up with the Auld family later on in his slave days he remembers the Auld family. ...

• Word Count: 1998
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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...

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• Grade Level: High School

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

When a master bred with a slave girl, the child became property of the master, therefore adding profit to his pockets because he could later sell him or her. ... (Jacobs, 6) Using the reading as evidence, I do feel that the mother was the center of the slave family. Throughout the reading of Jacobs, the main women to whom everyone goes for help is the grandmother. ...

• Word Count: 1416
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• Has Bibliography
• 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

At 15, Gaines moved to Vallejo, California, where he spent hours in the library reading Willa Cather, Turgenev, and Chekhov. ... The mistress later beats Jane until she bleeds, but Jane insists that her name is now Jane Brown. ... Ned is not home when they come and is able to flee the plantation later that night. ... After Ned's death, Jane tells Cluveau that the chariot of hell will come for him and Cluveau later dies a fearful, painful death. ... Later in life, Tee Bob falls in love with the Creole schoolteacher, Mary Agnes LeFarbre, who appears almost white. ...

• Word Count: 1538
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• 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. ...

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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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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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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

Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... He decides to fight back by diverting the violence that was afflicted upon him by his master - "at this moment - from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to fight"(Douglass 343), and later he adds "This battle with Mr. ... However, later he adds that "[t]he fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. ...

• Word Count: 1523
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• 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

Later this evening is when he kills the two black guys. ... The movie ends with Derek running into the bathroom holding Danny while crying, while you hear the narration of Danny reading the end of his paper. ...

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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. ...

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Almost 300 years later in the 1950's people still believed this myth. ... Stephen Mulhall, the author of "A Reading of Blade Runner" wrote, "Because you're so different, you're so perfect." ...

• Word Count: 1380
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• Grade Level: High School