In 1968, Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. ... Indeed, the Civil Rights Movement was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance embodied by Malcolm X. ... Individually, covert racism is exemplified in Malcolm X's autobiography. ... Malcolm's thoughts in his autobiography can be applied to our current society. ... At any level, the racial and discriminative parallels of Anne Moody's autobiography and modern society are absolute. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(King, 1994) Maya Angelou wrote her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a memoir of her childhood and young adult period, in 1969, toward the end of the Civil Right Movement. ... She was proud to be introduced to entertainers, actors, singers and activists such as Malcolm X and Dr. ...

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate