From this meeting the National Negro Committee NAACP was set up and would serve to help all, particularly Blacks. ... In 1895, he founded the "Daily American," a newspaper set out to report on the issues in the black communities. ... At each Meeting in the different cities, a branch was eventually set up and the members made plans to have a membership drive. ... He also served on the committee to talk to the Secretary of War, Newton D. ... That visit was also successful and regular training camps were set aside for blacks (Johnson 318). ...

• Word Count: 1687
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

a riot in Harlem in 1935 "set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community "shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro. ... For example "Mother to Son- the mother says "So boy don't you turn back, don't set you down on the steps cause you find its kinder harder, don't you fall now-. ... In many of Langston Hughes poetry, nature serves as a strong symbol for triumphs and defeat of the soul. ... Nature serves as a s...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He needed to annihilation states to set up state governments and rejoin the union rapidly. ... Congress set up the freedmen's Bureau to give backing to poor blacks and whites. ... No colored hairdressers might serve as a stylist to white young ladies or ladies in Georgia. ...

• Word Count: 2190
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This poem, which the reader gathers is about a father's quest to set new path for his son, is great example of how social expectations can complicate a person's search for identity in adulthood. ... This first line sets a tone that the narrator is very proud to be American, whether people look at him as American or not, and he is willing to be patient and wait it out until people see him that way as well. ... Having to serve the people he works for, eating in the kitchen, and being treated as inferior only silences him for so long. ...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This coined the phrase "Separate but equal" and set the way of life for almost the next sixty years. ... On February 1, 1960, four black college students from North Carolina A&T University began protesting racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at "white only" lunch counters and waiting to be served. ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent poets of his era and his works are still read and studied today. He once recounted how a young Negro poet came to him claiming that the hoped he could write like a poet and not just as a Negro poet. It might seem baffling and inconsequential today but in...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pre-college Education The inequality in the college preparation of black Americans can potentially serve to restrict their access to college by limiting pre-college academic programs and resources. ... Diseducation 5 Pre-college education for the black male, for the most part, is set up for him to fail. ...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. She believed that through finding God in one's life, salvation and mercy would follow. She...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It served as a motivational factor for the movement. ... The formal end of segregation in the USA was set up once suffrage in the Southern states were restored and segregationist laws were abolished. ...

• Word Count: 1999
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Comet, water serves as an important element and signifies Jim's sense of isolation and despair. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and hig...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Christina Boufis emphasized that the more educated a person is they seem to not pick up on the little things that lower class citizens would see. (98) This serves to show how different people have different American dreams because people have different concerns. ... Now days we question why blacks and other races are so set back compared to white people, but it is because of the laws that were put in place back then. ...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School