It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. Several authors such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen confronted this situation of the incomplete American dream with literature that proposed the irony of its society. These works focuse...
Under the impression that both more freedom and dignity in his sporting profession lay overseas, he would travel to Ireland and England to attempt to test his skills and money-making opportunities at the still-tender age of twenty-six. ... Unfortunately, the public's love for Cribb, and the "atrocity" of a man of color taking away the title from such a beloved figure, would prove disastrous for Tom Molineaux. ...
It was a philosophy with broad appeal, which is why it stood the test of time and now, fifty years later, after Hitler had died, his legacy was the hate in Bryan Freeman's heart, hate that was born from rigid, unloving parents, hate born from a religion that demanded he stay an outsider, hate born from kids looking at him funny because he didn't have a birthday or Christmas dinner, hate born from too many tears and too little love. ...
King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test, supported and participated in a sit-in demonstration organized by Atlanta college students. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was and always will be loved by people all over the world. ...
