Walker says, "I believe that it was from this period, from my solitary, lonely position, the position of an out cast that I began to really see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems" (Alice 1). ... Walker was an excellent student and received a scholarship to go on to Sarah Lawrence College in New York (Alice 2). ... She has a huge effect on Celie and helps her learn to respect herself. ...

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Many students live very segregated lives up until the time they start college. ... Interaction allows students to learn that persons of the opposite race are people too, more or less like themselves. Students starting at a disadvantage need a boost, minority students start out at a disadvantage in their college or job application process. ... Sincere, hard-working minority students are every bit as capable as white students, but because of these disadvantages, they may not have the same paper qualifications. ... Students can learn a lot from one another, but only if the student body contains r...

• Word Count: 1530
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I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free. ... We know that the students are white, because the author states that he is the only "colored (line 10)". ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. ...

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I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free. ... We know that the students are white, because the author states that he is the only "colored (line 10)". ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. ...

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It is important for me, as an African American, to learn more about other African American educators that made a difference for education and to also be a native to North Carolina's neighboring state of South Carolina. ... When the school opened, it only had five African American girls as students and it was until later that the school would accept boys. ... The focus that Mary had on educating her students were on training the girls in the proper way to care for their homes. ... Bethune knew that her school was starting to grow with the population of students increasing, so a la...

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Booker did not want to work he wanted to go to school to learn. ... He went to class to learn during the day and at night he would clean the buildings. ... There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ... Washington and his students built the school from the ground up. ... It taught students both academic and vocational training. ...

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This hill above harlem symbolizes a higher class and higher living that the character had finally reached with the white men but still being the only black student in his classes, feels lost and out of place although having earned where he is, his journey there also separates him having had gone through a tougher path then what is created for a white student as shown through the black/white ratio. ... But for this lone student it couldn't be more complicated. ... "I am the only colored student in my class.... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... In reality there is n...

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During his teaching there, one of the students was Kimberly Wilder who had a learning disability. ... Wilder expressed that rather than teaching students about ignorance, he should be teaching students about the greatness of things. ... Tarkington College is holding back their students from knowing the truths of the world around them. Hartke explains that teaching students about negative aspects and difficult obstacles of life will open up their eyes to the real world. ...

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Marshall attack the "separate but equal" rule by arguing segregation harms minority students by making them feel inferior and thus interfering with their ability to learn. ... By the 1960's several Southern states still had no black students enrolled in public schools with white students. ... Another was a sit-in, when black students sat and waited to be served in the same cafeterias as whites. ... And the movements continued, in 1961 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee )SNCC), campaigned in Mississippi, attempting to register black voters despite intense white resistance. ...

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A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In schools, Caucasians are favored more than Hispanic and African American students because of their skin color. ... A well-meaning high school counselor, for instance, may learn the names of all her white students, but barely any of her Latino or African American pupils. The counselor gives the impression that only the Caucasian students exist amongst the other students. This concludes that schools discriminating a...

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This tension is highlighted in Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic through his depiction of a race tension amongst students within a high school in Kentucky. Tensions between white and black students at the local high school had been escalating over the issues of white students displaying Confederate flags and black students wearing caps with an X on them, celebrating Malcolm X. ... We can all learn something significant from these two films. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The impoverishment of the black people, in their hovels in town and their tenant shacks in the flatland, was wrenching and scrutable, as Medgar himself would learn first hand as an insurance salesman in the Delta in the early 1950's.....We children of the middle class absorbed all this as mindlessly as we would the insects and fireflies in driftless random....these childhood and teenage years were poisoned, fragilely and inevitably, before Brown vs. ... Then, on the 30th some students on their lunch break began singing movement songs on the front lawn of the school's campus. Soon ...

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Through most of her childhood experiences she learns the social significance of race and gender on her own because her mother avoids confronting the issue because she feels society can't be changed. ... When arriving at the movies she learns that she cant sit in the regular seats with the other whites but instead must sit in the balcony with other blacks. ... Through her experiences in the working world Anne learns that not all white people have the same view of blacks. ... It took me 8 years to learn what that spirit was" (Moody 121). ... I used to observe some white students talki...

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When looking at the two different movements with the students from Biko's article and the movement out of Malcolm X's book, one can see that the two movements almost get viewed the same way. ... When the students formed the SASO movement on college campuses for a great deal of reasons, but there was one reason that really stuck out. This important reason of the SASO was to "Establish a solid identity amongst the non-white students and to ensure that these students are always treated with the dignity and respect they deserve."" ... Biko said "The idea of everything being done for t...

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It is argued that "Lee seems to suggest that children have a natural instinct for tolerance and understanding; only as they grow older do they learn to react to differences with fear and disdain."(Novels for Students volume two 293). ... (Novels for Students Volume two, 293) The jury believed Atticus when he said this, but they still could not see that this was their reason for convicting Tom Robinson. ...

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During the Supreme Court case in the movie, in order to put an end to segregation, thru good Marshall had to prove that segregation was mentally damaging to black students. ... There are lots of black students that get better grades in school than people of other races. ... If we could all learn to think like this and appreciate each other's differences instead of hating them then we would all be a lot better off. ...

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By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... She was instrumental in organizing a conference of student sit-in activists in 1960, forming the beginning of what would become the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... Because the SN...

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These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... However, research indicates that "African Americans tended to be concentrated in schools that are academically inadequate, since those schools with a majority of African American students tended to be vocational or technical, special education, or alternative schools rather than regular schools" ( Nettles & Perna, 1997a, p. 59). ... He is placed in sub-par learning environments, and expected to learn with what he is given. ...

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I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... All this poem is made with many symbols, and in an important part of the poem he avoid totally all the adjective and just focused on the verbs: " I like to work, read, learn, and understand life." (588). ... Furthermore Hughes tried to focused on the egalitarianism in what the instructor have as much to teach to the student as the student to the instructor, and what a black could share with a white and a white with a black. ...

• Word Count: 1971
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The students tease me not because I was late, but because my mother is white. ... One advantage of having both a black and white parent is that the child learns to look at both cultures equally. ... One particular student attending a predominately white school commented on the discrimination: "I seem to just accept the fact that it is going to happen sometimes, you have just got to learn to try to ignore it." ...

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DuBois was the only black student in a class of 12 to attend school and was very popular with his white classmates. ... DuBois spent two summers teaching at a county school in the south while attending Fisk in order to learn more about the South and his people. ... DuBois received scholarships to pay for tuition at Harvard and as a student he was focused on philosophy. ...

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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... We can learn a lot from the obstacles and challenges these pioneers faced, they had no road map or precedent, probably some of those challenges they faced are similar to those we face today. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of wo...

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When racial socialization is done correctly young people learn early on about the systemic racism that surrounds them and they are taught the coping mechanisms and skills necessary to survive and thrive in such an environment (Degruy, 2005). ...

• Word Count: 1971
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A grandmother name Bunny Plaskett, was upset to learn that youth today is using the word. ... That's why I propose the solution that schools teach students more about black history. When I was in school all I learn about blacks history was that Harriet Tubeman freed 300 slaves, Martin Luther King's "I have a speech" and how Rosa Parks started the boycott on buses in the south. ...

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Such a classroom can serve as a learning opportunity where students will learn about the different cultures in the classroom and this will have a positive effect, as it will lead to a global understanding of different cultures and tolerance. ...

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