Harlem became one of the largest African American communities in the United States and also a center for the arts and literature. ... He loved Harlem. ... On his poem "Harlem"(Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000) which is dedicated to the place he loved, he wonders what happens to "dreams" that are "deferred," or to dreams that are held back by someone. ... (The Nation Magazine) It also describes how many middle class blacks tried to be more like a "white" person. ... Langston Hughes "died in March 22, 1967 at the age of sixty-five, due to prolonged heart and kidney trouble." ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This literature review examines the life of Rosa Parks and describes exactly why she received such an exceptional title. ... The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement A Review of the Literature One of the most influential and inspirational women of all time was Rosa Parks. ... In the four decades after refusing to give up her seat, she saw an end to legalized segregation in America and the emergence of an African American upper and middle class. ... Rosa Parks died at age 92 on October 24, 2005 in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks left behind a nation she loved, one that has made gr...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the middle of all the chaos in him home, James Baldwin discovered an appetite for literature (Als 139). ... The Harlem Renaissance was an era that experienced the flowering of African-American literature in the 1920's. ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unusual depiction of a coming-of-age story of a fourteen year old boy, John Grimes. ... While in Paris David meets and falls in love with another man. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I dreamed and loved and wandered and sang; then, after two long years, I dropped suddenly back into "nigger"-hating America! ... Claire Oberon Garcia of the International Journal of Francophone Studies stated, "The presence of this middle-aged black woman in this venerable public arena was itself a living challenge or negation of contemporary constructions of race and gender in that it instantiated a black woman's determination to inscribe her own historical agency.... Do your work in your lowly sphere, praying the good Lord that into heaven above, where all is love, you ma...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School