For me weekends begin on a long strip of road in down town Hartford. ... Street racing isn't only found on the fast moving streets of down town Hartford, its all over the country. ... Questions that may be in our minds, but we never ponder too long on them. ... If we did, we wouldn't leave our homes in fear of what may or may not happen today. ... There is just one problem I have with it (and no, my problem is not about it being illegal, although that should play a part in my theme here, it doesn't). ...

• Word Count: 1792
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

We all seem to get along just fine here and all of our children play and interact well with each other, except one of the neighbors that have recently moved down the street. ... Their children are not even allowed to play with any of the Hispanic children in my neighborhood. ... My children also play football for our neighborhood team, and within the team are different members of each ethnic group with the majority being Hispanic, and we all get along great. Our football club has recently joined a new football league in our area. ... This only made me realize that not everyone in our communit...

• Word Count: 1550
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also won the Guggenheim Fellowship for his play, The Amen Corner (1954). ... Charlie is a story/play loosely based on the murder of the black youth, Emmett Till, in a small town in Mississippi in 1955. ... The play, Blues for Mr. ... Mainly his plays are thesis plays-talky, over-written and cliché dialogue and some stereotypes, preachy and argumentative. ... 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

"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). ... From there, Robinson went on to play in the Negro Leagues. Robinson played with players such as Josh Gibson, Sam Bankhead, and Satchel Paige. ... 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 profes...

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

Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. An outspoken enemy of Smuts and all things English, he stands "like a chained lion" when God Save the King is played in the cinema (101). ... She speaks casually of the reserve "which our forefathers gave to Maduna when he yielded to them, a hundred years ago" (56), without questioning the precise nature of the giving and taking involved in the Afrikaner seizure of land. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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. ... Mammy was a character an African American woman had to play. ... In these movies, each of these characters are played by Perry, Murphy, and Lawrence. ...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• 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). ... Previously most of the characters of the Coon and Jim Crow were played by white men in black face in addition the up and coming black entertainers found that as the characters had been exaggerated in the past they too had to exaggerate the...

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

Therefore, the tradition never goes way, but only remains present in our society. ... Finally, the modern movement was directly linked to the activism of the 1940s, civil rights organizations and activist who played important roles. ... The movement played a significant role in inspiring the formation of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942 and brought forward famous nonviolent leaders such as James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, and E.D. ... In 1917 the court struck down a municipal ordinance requiring blacks to live in certain sections of towns. ... He was found not ...

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

There are acts that are so discreet that you almost don't catch them, but along with those, there are blatant acts of bigotry that would never occur in our time. ... Most of the blacks live in the bad part of town, or the "slums." ... "Because he is trash, that's why you can't play with him. ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School