Emma Lou is carrying the prejudices instilled in her in the small town of Boise, Idaho where she was surrounded by fair skinned people and the faith of the blue veins in the idea of "Whiter and whiter with EVERY generation" (11). ... When the reader looks at Emma Lou's reactions to her setting, first in Boise and finally in Harlem, s/he can see the differences in surroundings but not in behavior. ... As she gets older, she carries the belief that her only hope of improving the quality of life is to find a man that is lighter in color. ... Emma Lou notices that the other teachers have l...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Faulkner begins discussing the setting, the city of Jefferson, as a place where the electric and telephone companies are taking over and cutting down the trees to make way for "iron poles bearing clusters of bloated and ghostly and bloodless grapes- (76). ... Keeping in mind that technology is needed for a thriving modern society, blacks were needed to smoothly run a household as well as carry out the grunt work that the white men and women were not willing to succumb to in most cases. ... Of course the time at which Faulkner wrote That Evening Sun, the Civil Rights Movement had not truly be...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They were committed to work for their same employer for one year. ... The whites didn't want to have any contact with their "inferior race" and they lived their lives without encountering with African Americans by setting up separate black and white facilities. ... They were public murders carried out by mobs. ... Many people are still closed-minded and prejudiced against those who do not think or do the same things. Some don't understand other cultures, religions, and opinions, and they judge them for the way they think. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Many African Americans sang this song to show patriotism and hope for the future considering the fact that they were dealing with racism. ... Negros couldn't meet in the town so their freedom as very limited they couldn't do things they wanted on their own free will they were told what and what not to do. ... White individuals did not need African Americans as their occupants they needed whites just as their inhabitants. ... They kissed farewell, and Till sheets a southbound train headed for Mississippi. It was the last time they ever saw one another. ...

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

Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. ... This plan was a huge set back to the African American community and they"re right to vote. ... In the social setting Washington's views vary quiet differently from his economic notions. In his address he quotes, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (42). ... We want the Fourteenth Amendment carried out. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School