There is more of an effect on the reader in the daughter's case than in the case of the mother because the daughter is repeatedly referred to as "baby". ... Any other time in the story the daughter is referred to as "she" or "child". ... This shows how much the mother cares about her daughter. ... The article explained how African Americans during this time period anticipated a change. ... This struggle between the mother and the daughter is resolved when the mother allows her daughter to go "to church instead/ And sing in the children's choir" (Lines 15-16). ...

• Word Count: 2840
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. ... The mission to find their own voice was even more difficult for African American women who became targets of numerous insults, both during and after slavery, and were forced to be silent and to stand in the shadows for a long time. ... The ways in which Helene shows her affection for her daughter are not exactly motherly in 'the sense that Helene critiques Nels' appearance or does not allow her daughter to behave like a child. ... Instead of Helene helping Nel to i...

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

As time passed and I began to get older, I wasn't thinking about my grandma aging as well. ... This time came when "Black Power" was the main focus in the eyes of the white government. ... Douglass was one of best influential speakers of his time. ... Slaves were property and had to serve their purpose until their time was up. That meant their owner could have released them if he felt that they served their time. ...

• Word Count: 3405
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

For a long time, it was assumed that blacks were not allowed to play in the Major Leagues simply because they had not for so long. When Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the commissioner of baseball at the time, declared that there was no rule preventing integration of the Major Leagues, the idea of an African-American joining the league was realized for the first time by a lot of people. ... The likely choices for talent would have been Satchel Paige or Josh Gibson because of their skill level at the time. ... Jackie Robinson was able to endure this harassment because of his values, which his d...

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

These leaders were fearless, dedicated, well-spoken men who advocated African American strength and pride, as well as the unthinkable acts that were made against people of color during their time. ... Both groups were the driving force behind the Civil Rights Movement and the leaders at the time. ... When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... The segregation that was going on in the south at the time though was such that he was unaccustomed to. ... Unaware of the kind o...

• Word Count: 3309
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The written works of literate daughters incorporate the oral ancestral voices of tribal mothers (Kubitschek, 1991: 181). ... Every week, regardless of her busy life, she makes time to escape to a spiritual place. ... In fact, Walker may have been referring to women who were living during the time when Hurston was writing: "Most writers of her time wanted to reject the South because of its racism; few wanted to celebrate its flourishing black culture" (Dixon, 1987: 85). Hurston, as a writer during her life, can be seen as being ahead of her time because she touches on i...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The only ones in front of Mercy hospital that morning are those who happened to be there anyway and those few who got his notice in time. ... A pregnant woman was there in the crowd that morning along with her two half-grown daughters who were carrying baskets of velvet red roses which they made for a department store. ... Corinthians can't imagine that there would be very many African Americans who could afford to have two houses, but Macon assures her there will be enough in a few years" time. ... By the time Milkman is fourteen he notices that one of his legs is shorter than the ot...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Judith Thurman writes, ""Beloved" meanders through time, sometimes circling back, other times moving vertically, spirally out of time and down into space." ... The song that Sethe sings to her children becomes a focal point of Sethe's eventual recognition of her lost daughter, "I made that song up," said Sethe. ...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or havi...

• Word Count: 2997
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

But it wasn't just King's ideas which made him such a prominent spokesperson of his time, it was also his style of leadership, his undying religious faith and his incredible courage right up to his assassination which all made him the icon for racial equality for which he is known today. ... She was the daughter of a minister, so was also highly religious. ... King also talks of the common problem amongst Negro mothers of the time, and trying to explain to their children the idea of discrimination and segregation. ...

• Word Count: 3793
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School