Soon it was obvious to the owners of the bus company and to the white community that the Blacks were not going to ride the buses unless their terms were met They wanted only three things: courteous treatment from drivers; seating on a first-come, first-served basis, and the employment of Black bus drivers. ... Nonviolence was the path to a "Beloved Community-, the actualization of the "Kingdom of God-, a society "in which men and women live as children of God should live a kingdom controlled by the law of love-. ...

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

For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Black women have full time jobs receiving minimum wages and small encouragements from their family. ... Her greatest insight was to take her troubles to God. God could relieve her of all problems whether mentally or physically. ... She then realizes she cannot do all things that have been put upon her to do. ...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". ... Mays, changed King's mind about many things especially his future. ...

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

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). ... I would suggest that the name Morrison chooses for this family indicates that the (W)rights always do the "right" things. ...

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

The essay Stranger in the Village has been much collected; it reported on the author's unique experience of being the first black man encountered by a small Swiss village, and it became the instrument for expressing forcefully and gently the basic premise of the racial revolution in the twentieth century: "the people who shut their eyes to reality simply in! ...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate