The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race'.7 Cane however, was still marketed by Waldo Frank as 'a book about Negroes by a Negro'8 and this slogan appeared in the New York Times and New Book Review. ... The book comes full circle, starting in the ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... This book has not been reprinted but is available for readers in 37 libraries. ... This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ... Nor does it, what Joyce Caro Oats calls "pathography," a study that emphasizes a writer's alcoholism, drug addiction, or other maladies at the expense of the art. ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This book is available for readers in 4 libraries. ---. ... This book has not been reprinted but is available for readers in 37 libraries. ... This book is available for readers in 2 libraries. ---. ... This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times. ... Nor does it, what Joyce Caro Oats calls "pathography," a study that emphasizes a writer's alcoholism, drug addiction, or other maladies at the expense of the art. ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

To this day, the systematic oppression of the black man and woman as a result of their kidnapping and being forced into slave labor has eternalized itself in our society and has found its home within the minds of the vast majority of white citizens. ... Irwin's book seeks to examine how America has used its jail system as a new, under examined form of social control. ... They called them savages and made eliminating them a moral duty, rather than a moral sin (Alexander, 23). ... The restrictions to registration now in place denied blacks the rights they were given and deserved. ...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... A secret society called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had been organized to uphold this white "supremacy-. KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ... King's network began to fall into place. ... With this in mind, he began his first book "St...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Indeed it was not common to call a slave other than by his first name or as boy". ... But the so-called Reconstruction period failed, although Blacks were now called citizens", they still had no civil rights. ... They used threats, burning and lynching to keep the black man in his place". ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious leader...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The two men were working towards the same goals as Cone explains in his book, but in different manners. ... If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place. ... Louis Farrakhan called him a "cowardly hypocritical dog" who "is worthy of death." ... Cone also quotes King's wife, Coretta, who said King saw her as a "homemaker" and expected her to be "home waiting for him." ... Malcolm called women "tricky, deceitful, and untrustworthy flesh." ...

• Word Count: 2721
• Approx Pages: 11

Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the sla...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Despite being situated up in the hills, it is called the Bottom and it started to be called this way as a "nigger joke...The kind white folks tell....... The slave believed him and took the land from him, he even let himself believe that the reason for calling the place the Bottom is that when God looks down from heaven, the Bottom is the first place he sees (Morrison 5). ... However, what Helene does not see is that Nel is missing her affection which is clear after Helene and Nel return home from their visit from New Orleans to Nels grandmother, whom she sees only once in her life, and ...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He opened the door for his entire race to play professional sports and gain acceptance as more desegregation took place. ... " Here, Jackie realizes how difficult it would be for him to achieve his goal of breaking the color barrier while being called terrible racial slurs during his at-bats. Jackie Robinson was able to endure this harassment because of his values, which his daughter, Sharon writes about in her book, Jackie's Nine. ... He also became the first black player to homer in his first big league at-bat. ...

• Word Count: 2830
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and for...

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He was gifted and because of that he skipped the ninth and the twelfth grade of the "Booker T. ... They suffered terrorist telephone calls and threatening letters from King's opponents. ... They were called "Freedom-Riders", and their goal was to end the segregation at bus terminals. ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School