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...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(resist.com) His comments on the United States have a very racist tone. ... (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. ...

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• 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