The Honorable 54th Regiment The 54th regiment is honored for their bravery and attempt to bring about the best for their country, struggling through many barriers dealing with prejudice and discrimination, this regiment attacked and kept its strength to overcome their obstacles and become one of the first black regiment's to fight for the United States. ... This quote demonstrates the idea that there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against the blacks, the fact that white individuals treated these black soldiers in a lowery manner, demonstrated how blacks felt hatred against...

• Word Count: 1546
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blacks attending schools with whites still had to endure racial prejudices and misjudgments by much of the population. ... The men at the club could do no more to totally bash the dignity and pride that the guests had built up all their life. ... I am thinking that maybe they did this just to test his patience and pride. ...

• Word Count: 1491
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• Grade Level: High School

Although "he [hates] his family, [it is] because he knows that they are suffering and that he is powerless to help them," (13) his pride in his own self worth, is never more present then when he is around his family. ... Bigger does exactly what he was against, he obediently molded into the injustices of a prejudice society, sacrificing the value of individuality and self-pride to conform to an accepted black stereotype. ...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Finally, Alvin Poussaint investigated the topics of Black suicide, Black sexuality, Black Power, and the proposition to white parents on how to raise their children free of prejudice. ... He emphasizes that social scientist have a responsibility for changing Black conditions, also he argues the significance of the ethnocentrism factor (the focus and pride in a persons bio-social identity). ...

• Word Count: 1274
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Margarite listens song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson's she prides for black people because they also can have all opportunities to reach their goals and to be the part of "the wonderful, beautiful Negro race" (156). ... She does not give up and "fights" with racist hiring policies in San Francisco to get her first real job as streetcar conductor "The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of ...

• Word Count: 1584
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Richard was alienated from his environment, even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. ... By teaming up on blacks like Pease and Reynolds did to Richard, whites are able to unite and find powering numbers, and in turn satisfy their human need for pride. ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: High School

Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women, and hatred. ... She added: "Black women should not be sacrificed for Black men's pride. ...

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In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... Stand out amongst the crowd with passion and pride. ...

• Word Count: 1517
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ellison describes the coin bank as being a "piece of early Americana," a great use of diction to frame the historical context of the prejudices and struggles faced by African Americans from slavery and how they are still perceived. ... The way in which the society, the bank, and the individuals are fueled is through greed and personal pride. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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This segment is just an example of the prejudice that blacks and minorities continued to experience even when they were supposedly "included" in the work force. ... She juggles the importance of her own race and pride and struggle with that, with the option of being mistakenly considered white and gaining status and other such benefits in this way. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School