Richard projects this hatred that he has towards his family at the white people that he has heard so much about doing bad things to blacks. ... As he is moved around his is moved from school to school were he learns to defend himself and gain respect from the children in school. ... Richard finally saves up enough money to move out on his own. ... He and his brother decide to save their money and move up north, but not let anyone know about it. ... Not only easy to read, but it also gave me information about how hard some people really did have it back in the 1900's. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

., 1993; Charles, 2003; Chun, 2013) done in the last 20 years have shown that whites are not willing to move into a black community or a community with blacks as the majority. ... In effect, if more black families move into the community and more white families move away, the community becomes more segregated than integrated. ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... However, ...

• Word Count: 1640
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The plot in this play is a depiction of Hansberry's personal life, where her family received threats of violence and legal actions from their neighbors when they moved into an all white neighborhood. She tells her mother that "A Raisin in the Sun" is a play that tells the truth about people, Negroes and life and I think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just as complicated and mixed up as they are " (Adams 1). ... This fact raises a difficult question, should colored people move into a place that strongly opposes their presence? ... Some people might question that ...

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Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. ... During the late 1930s, there was an influx of industrial work that offered colored people jobs, but even with this new source of income, they could not move out of the slums and to a house that was correct for their circumstances. ... The 1930s to the 1960s saw the appearance of the baby boomer society, where families moved to the suburbs to escape the quickly crowding cities post WW2. ... In Baltimore, the colored families have been stereotyped as a poor uneducated people. ... Imposing this on colored peop...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1916, he moved the UNIA headquarters to Harlem, New York. ... When the UNIA organization moved to New York, women held some high positions such as president and vice-president. ... People believed that he was a prophet and had divine powers. ... Spies for the government also joined UNIA to keep track of his every move. ... He was a civil rights leader that stood for his people- black people. ...

• Word Count: 1629
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• Grade Level: High School

When his stepfather dies in 1943, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village to pursue his literary dreams. ... It is represented "Baldwin's passionate gesture of identification with his people" (Armengol 671). In 1954, "Giovanni's Room," "Baldwin's second novel moved away from his African American culture and heritage" (671). ... And it won't be fixed until white people and black people tell their stories openly and honestly" (Manley 5). ... In "Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin," Herb Boyd shares Baldwin's love o...

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With a high school diploma under his belt James Baldwin moved to New Jersey and began working as a railroad hand. After two years in New Jersey, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village. ... He had become disgusted with race relations in the United States and so decided to move to France. ... While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial dating, Baldwin found social freedom and privacy while in Europe. ... The murderer, who was white, was acquitted and Baldwin shows, through his writing, that the African American people did not have a fair chance of justice i...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Grade Level: High School

Susie wanted Victor to know that it's okay to be mad but it's time to move on and actually forgive him. ... Not wanting to cause any problems, the just moved to different seats. ... In the case, the people who are acting with supremacy are white. ... For Reservation Blues, some people do commit suicide to take the easy way out. For Smoke Signals, people do forgive ones who may have caused trauma in another's life. ...

• Word Count: 1337
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• Grade Level: High School

The next phase of Malcolm's life began when he moved to Boston to live with his sister, Ella. ... Throughout this phase he moved back and forth between Harlem and Boston. ... When he was released from prison he was very religious and wanted help the Islamic people and all black people in the United States. ... He made many black and white people unite, in his later days, to try to make things better for all oppressed people in our society. ... On the other hand these views were also thought to be threatening to many white people and even some black people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Simply because he is black, many white people automatically assume he is up to no good and react accordingly. ... "I could only move briskly toward the company of someone who knew me."" (Staples) These examples from the author's life demonstrate to me how black people must always be on the defensive, and constantly be prepared to be accused of something or be mistrusted by white people. ... "I could only move briskly toward the company of someone who knew me."" (Staples) These examples from the author's life demonstrate to me how black people must always be on th...

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This is the truly liberated artist who translates their beauty in the only way they know black people. ... Their people tried not to identify with their art and the white people outright ignored it. ... It almost seems that the general consensus was that black people don't possess analytical skill. ... They are moved by beauty, discover things and love just like anybody else. ... Douglass painted the story of a struggling hero who grew from an innocent young man to an experienced one as his will and determination saw him move from chattel to a freed American citizen. ...

• Word Count: 1560
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He thinks about this a bit more and assumes that maybe God likes black people better, hence having his mother cry at Church. ... This reflects the theme because it shows how these two people, Ruth and James McBride, both face these separate obstacles in life, one being the death of Hunter Jordan, and the other one being James McBride's drug dependency, and yet, they are able to persevere through these events. Later on in the book, when the family of Ruth McBride and her children move to Delaware, James McBride becomes increasingly involved with jazz. ... Later that day, James McBride was ...

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

They eventually move in together despite the misgivings of her family. ... After having five children and living together for twenty years, Emily was forced to move out and into another home because of the escalating threats to her family's life. ... However, no matter how white the skin, to people who knew them, they were still black. ...

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I got used to having my mother home every time I arrived home from school but when we moved to this country she had to start working and my siblings and I would not see her as much. ... Barbara experienced how hard it is for a low wage worker to get the first deposit to move in a new department which causes them to live in hotels that are $40 to $60 dollars per night. These peoples American dream is to survive. They hope that they get enough money to pay the expensive hotel that they have been practically forced to move in to due to lack of money. ... There are many white people that do not h...

• Word Count: 2444
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• Grade Level: High School

He influenced a whole culture and race of people, and his teachings are still influential today. ... Malcolm is still just a teenager when he moves to Boston where his sister Ella lives. ... But after a move or two, and an inmate that pushes Malcolm to use the library and broaden his perspective, he is rethinking his situation. ... It spoke of the oppression of black people by the whites and of the violence done by whites to non-whites. ... His goal was the inclusion and end of the oppression of blacks, his people, against the system he dealt with all his life. ...

• Word Count: 1903
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• Grade Level: High School

It shows the shifting attitude people were acquiring and the changing in boundaries in the workforce and in daily living situations. ... During this decade, nearly 1 million black Americans made the move from South to North. ... It was the look on people's faces when you asked them about a job. ... That was what the time had come to however, and the few people like Alice who had the rare opportunity to move up in the world, beyond the limitations that their race had dictated, were considered extremely lucky. ... The vast majority of these incarcerated people had no reason to be consider...

• Word Count: 1898
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These people were seen as less than whites and closer, genetically, to animals than humans. This association laid the groundwork for the myth black people were inherently animalistic, sexual creatures. ... Around this same time, the feminist movement had moved to a more social climate of correcting misogynistic behavior and ideals. ... Many people had issues with Nola's character. ... The both also rely heavily on the validation of an outside power, white people in Sarah Jane's case and men in Nola's. ...

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Feeling as though it was time to move on Robinson went to teach in four other states (Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and California). ... Since whites believed that black were unsanitary and smelly, when it rained bus drivers would deliberately pass black riders rather than have them on the same bus with "clean" white people. ... The boycott was originally scheduled for one day but when blacks saw empty buses they realized that they could accomplish anything if there was unity among their people. ... The carpool worked so well that the White Citizens Council had to admit that it moved with "mili...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: High School

"Black people have been experiencing oppression from other ethnic groups, particularity white people for centuries" (Avakian). Black people were slaves to white people; they were forced to serve them while suffering cruel and inhuman punishment. ... Black people are considered inferior to white people in America, but what about in other areas of the world? ... When Baldwin arrived at the village, he demonstrated the ideologies of how white people in Europe viewed black people. ... Yet they move with an authority which I shall never have; and they regard me, quite rightly, not only a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. ... While still young, at the age of nine, Black Elk had a vision where he was the leader of all his people. ... Throughout Black Elk's life, their community was moved from one place to another, when they reached other destinations after awhile they had to fight whites and to live through loses and hard times. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, ...

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The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. ... While still young, at the age of nine, Black Elk had a vision where he was the leader of all his people. ... Throughout Black Elk's life, their community was moved from one place to another, when they reached other destinations after awhile they had to fight whites and to live through loses and hard times. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, ...

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People like you as a person-you'd get all kinds of work. ... After the 8th grade, Malcolm moved to Boston where he worked various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity.4 In his autobiography Malcolm X referred to this part of his past as "Detroit Red". ... Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. ... His conversion to orthodox Islam changed his views upon white people. ... He also believed that the solution to racial problems lied in the minds of people, not in segregation. ...

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In the book Race Matters by Cornell West, he talks about Malcolm X's and he states that under the notion of psychic conversation, which is an implicit critique of Dubois's idea of double-consciousness, Malcolm says that "black people must no longer view themselves through white lenses. He claims black people will never value themselves as long as they subscribe to a standard of valuation that devalues them."" ... Cornell West goes on to state that "For Malcolm X this "double-consciousness- pertains more to those black people who live "betwixt and between- the black and white worlds...

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The city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States. Now it is a rotting, decaying hellhole of about 700,000 people that is the butt of most jokes about poverty. ... The term "white flight" derives from the idea that if more blacks or minorities in general, move into an area, the whites will leave due to a disgusting sense of backhanded racism. ... Another shortcoming of the war on drugs is the amount of people it incarcerates on an annual basis. In 2012 alone, around 1.55 million people were arrested for n...

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(Black Entertainment Television), the channel specifically made for black people." ... How can people make a television channel just for their own race? ... Everyone knew about it, but few cared except for the slaves, who were real people, with real thoughts and feelings inside. ... I know nothing of his background, and I think too many times people tend to jump to conclusions and pity on ourselves when others get opportunities that we don't. ... But I do know that until we can move past it, there will always be tension between races and we will always be divided. ...

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• Grade Level: High School