The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. ... Atticus knows that he is going to lose everything, and so does everyone else in the town. ... After Scout realizes that most of the town doesn't approve of what Atticus is doing, she asks him why he's doing it. ... Miss Maudie demonstrates this as she states to Jem, "I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world that were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ... When the entire town turned against him, and looked down on him, she was there, standing by...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Rich's essay is a commencement speech for graduates of Smith college for women, hooks' essay reflects on her personal experiences as a young black woman from a small town who was educated at a prestigious university. ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. It was difficult for white people within the towns to grasp the notion that a black man had the capability of riding a horse on his own. ... There is no way we will be able to combat the issue of racism in our country, if we continue to allow the use of objects such as the Confederate flag, which still carries a significant racist connotation. ... If we gave more sufficient opportunities to members of disadvantaged groups who suffer from discrimination within American culture, we would come to ...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Charlie is a story/play loosely based on the murder of the black youth, Emmett Till, in a small town in Mississippi in 1955. ... Meridian must deal with the conflict drawn between the bitterly divided Whitetown and Blacktown (fictitious towns used by Baldwin to simultaneously emulate and mock The United States' racial tension). ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Even if our ethnic backgrounds are different ways, at the end of the day we are one species who need to look out for each other regardless of our minor differences. ... The fact that slavery existed in America and was a huge part of our history and singlehandedly contributed to our racism today. ... The problem is that the African American population is underrepresented in the police force with ninety four percent of them being white while sixty three percent of the town is black (Stewart). ... Then we are guided by what our parents are teaching us. Again we do not question this because our p...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

(whiteracist.com) His view is that all cities and towns should be white run and that all businesses should be white owned. ... "We always stress the inportance of our POWs. ... These racist movements are poisoning our society and sucking up our children. ...

• Word Count: 1468
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Near six o"clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia" (Rampersad 10). ... Race will not just be a huge factor in sports, but in every aspect of our society. ... Are our beliefs in twenty-first century America still so archaic that we cannot hire a person with a skin tone other than white or someone other than European descent to coach our professional and collegiate sports teams? ...

• Word Count: 1632
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At age sixteen her mother, father and some of her brothers and sisters died of a tragic yellow fever outbreak when she was in another town visiting relatives. ... She attended the organizational meeting for the NAACP and attended meetings threw its starting years to reform the racial injustices of our country. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Taking place in a little town of Ohio, many African Americans traveled a road past Sethe's place, and often were leery of it because of what she did to her children. ... We all family situations that affect our decisions and participation. ... If others go unappreciated, we will start to lose our grip on tightening that connection....

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. ...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Therefore, the tradition never goes way, but only remains present in our society. ... In 1917 the court struck down a municipal ordinance requiring blacks to live in certain sections of towns. ... He was found not guilty as a decision of our "Justice system" with a plea of self-defense. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School