The Civil Rights Movement, undoubtedly, initiated the abolishment of most forms of legal discrimination. ... The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... Media stereotypes and the residuum of pre-civil rights overt racism have plagued society's thinking. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included the right of African Americans to vote. ... Whites, on the other hand, have been fleeing to suburban areas of the country since the end of the Second World War where nice houses and newer schools are located throughout. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It takes place in a pre-civil war society when slavery was legal and the separation between black and white people was natural and socially acceptable. ... In the time of the Civil Rights Movement, tolerance for racism was starting to diminish. ... Critics need to remember that the story takes place in a pre-civil war society, when slavery was still legal and morally acceptable. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I've heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. ... In the military during WWII, American minorities always demonstrated patriotism on the battlefield. 37,000 black soldiers died for the Union during the Civil War while they fought to create and defend the nation. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Jim, "Is a Frenchman a man?" " "Yes,"" replies Huckleberry. "Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"" (80). Believing that all men are the same, Jim simply cannot seem to understand the fact that all men do not speak the same language. Thomas Jefferson's idea of "...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate