For example, "In the early morning of June 7, 1998, a black man was walking down a road in Jasper, Texas. ... Angered, one of the passengers by the name of John King grabbed the wheel and drove to a dark deserted road outside of town. ... Afterward, they chained him by his ankles to the back of the truck and dragged him so violently down the winding asphalt road, tearing off his head and right arm from his body. Police found Byrd's dentures torn from his mouth, lying a few hundred yards down the road from the rest of his body. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Weeds Ernest J. Gaines sets his book, A Gathering of Old Men, in the 70's on the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana. It is about the conflicts between the whites and the blacks within an isolated parish. This story revolves around a young white woman, Can...

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There would be a long hard road of progress and backtracking that would set a deep racial and status divide between the people of America. ... It has been a long hard road since the American Revolution, and the struggle for true equality is still being waged today. ...

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"Little man, chest-deep in water, scooped up a handful of mud, and in a uncontrollable rag, scrambled up to the road and ran after the retreating bus. ... The book then goes on to explain how Lillian Jean pushes Cassie into the road. ...

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Should police or figures with authority be allowed to profile individuals based on race? Can even a successful Broadway actor, be stereotyped as a member of the criminal population? Patricia J. Williams presents her view in "Road Rage," and Alton Fitzgerald White explains his case in "Ragtime, My Ti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Race and the CCC The Civilian Conservation Corps was Roosevelt's first recovery attempt to help the "forgotten man" after the Great Depression. It did exactly that. Hundreds of thousands of young men between the ages of 18 and 25, both black and white, were employed to do conservation work aro...

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The author of Native Son, Richard Wright, portrays disparity between Whites and Blacks, and forces that Blacks could neither understand nor control. The word "freedom" was the most valuable word that Blacks desired to hear. Lack of freedom caused Bigger Thomas to have violence and intimidation. B...

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The author of Native Son, Richard Wright, portrays disparity between Whites and Blacks, and forces that Blacks could neither understand nor control. The word "freedom" was the most valuable word that Blacks desired to hear. Lack of freedom caused Bigger Thomas to have violence and intimidation. B...

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• Grade Level: High School

Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore, affirmative action doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against whites instead of blacks. When an employer hires anyone because he or she is a minority, instead of being based on one's qualification, it is discrimination. Just because affirmative...

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Tim Mclauren's except from Keeper of the Moon, depicts the joy and sadness of interracial friendship. These kind of friendships are normally good depending on the kind of bond between the friends. Friends that have grown up with each other and have been together for a long time, like Tim and LJ in ...

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For example, population data used to calculate the disparity index does not include members of the minority community that reside in St Louis City and therefore increases the diversity of drivers on the roads within St Louis County. ... In short, skin color has become evidence of the propensity to commit a crime, and police use this "evidence" against minority drivers on the road all the time. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Pride Webster's New World Dictionary defines pride as "an unduly high opinion of oneself." Flannery O"Connor uses pride in her short stories. O"Connor's characters position themselves higher in society until someone comes along to lead them to their mistakes. In most cases, the main character i...

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Brief Summary: This story is about a 15 year old girl, Macey Clare, who's parents are never home so she stays with her grandparents most of the times. Macey gets involved with a Saturday group, where they go and paint a church in a bad part of the neighborhood. While they paint at the black churc...

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For two black males coming of age tends to be their major obstacle. Sonny lives in the North during the late 50s while the setting of Battle Royal takes place during the 30s in the South, both navigate their own paths to manhood trying to defy the expectations set before them. Being a young black ma...

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America is a nation of immigrants. American's come from every ethnicity, religion and culture and as a result of the mixed ethnicity in US, there are more from Irish ancestry than in Ireland, more Italians in New York than in Venice, as well more Polish, blacks, Jews than in their leading cities of ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

No one has ever said that life is easy, especially those that lived during the 1930's and 40's in an era known as The Great Depression. During the depression, life was an on going struggle for all. In the South, it seemed that African Americans suffered the greatest. When the novel "I Know Why T...

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Sonny's Blues? James Baldwins's "Sonny's Blues" is the account of two brothers who grow up in Harlem in New York City. The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together a...

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Shirley Sherrod didn't get any second chances, according to her former place of employment, the Agriculture Department, who claim to have a zero-tolerance policy on racism. When a video clip dated from March 27 surfaced at BigGovernment.com, Sherrod was immediately forced to resign from her positio...

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To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. The place where the novel is set is a county called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. In Maycomb, most peopl...

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Everyone is different in their own unique way. In life people have to experience differences every day. For example, not one person looks exactly the same, therefore, they different. I am different from my family and friends because we all have different ambitions and ideas of what we want out ...

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"The hundreds of thousands of construction workers - many of them Latino - who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst, I want to put them back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and new schools and airports all across the country. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Racism (according to Webster's Dictionary) is an excessive and irrational belief in or advocacy of the superiority of a given group of people or nation on racial grounds alone. Racism in this country has been a problem since the beginning of civilization in America. Although not all people have a p...

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To be a womanist is to have or express a belief in, or have a respect for women and their talents and abilities beyond the boundaries of race and class. A womanist should not be confused with the term feminist. A feminist is a belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes and in ...

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The 1900s were a breakthrough age for black culture with the rapidly growing desire to learn. Many of the younger African Americans across the nation wanted to go out and explore the realm of education, whether it was about themselves or a world that they'd never known personally. Just the idea of e...

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Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great man, and his teachings and ideas helped form one of the most revolutionizing institutions of this century. His advice to those of his race " Cast down your bucket where you are" telling his people that in order to better yourself and your co...

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