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. ... Many of the people who play smaller roles in Atticus and Tom's life each do their part to help. ... 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 job...

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

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

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