Throughout she had a long career that included different works from poetry, screenplays for television programs and film, plays, directing acting, as well as public speaking. ... Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... According to Hudley, it was brutal for Angelou to be young and spend most of her youthful days sitting quietly and listening to charges brought against her color without a chance to say anything in defense (1). ... During her lifetime, Angelou states that she had read all works done by Thomas Wolfe, as well as memorizing his ...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children. ... He seeks to redeem the darker brother throughout his works of poetry (Mead 132). He was entertained as a child with stories of the plantation houses which clearly had something to do with his poetry because he seems to write a lot on the slave days on the plantation houses. ... In many of his works he pointed out racial injustices very bitterly or satirically (Turner 129). ... He wrote intimate feelings of his family's slavery days and how they felt impriso...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His watercolor works focused on the social and economic problems of the African American population. ... His interest in art began to intensify, spending his days copying pictures of anything he could possibly find. ... Woodruff liked to display works of major black artists. ... During this time he also produced several great works of art. ... Other works were done with a pressed and inked fashion. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent poets of his era and his works are still read and studied today. ... Although the fight for belonging still goes on in America today, it was an almost insurmountable mountain in those days. ... They feel that the general consuming public will be indifferent to the love story of a Negro woman or Jewish woman and since they are in the publishing business to make money, they shy away from such works. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I remember many days sitting on the stoop and wandering why is my block different from the others. ... Many writers wrote about personal experiences and created beautiful works that evoked feelings and were appealing to the masses. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

But what people do not know is that this works only in an equilibrium state, where everybody starts on the same level. ... Several case studies are as follows: • Two pairs of male testers visited employment agencies on two different days. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Back in those days blacks and whites kept separate and each race would help each other out in a time of need. ... So of course if there is a white man being prosecuted the black people will state that he's guilty and it works the same the other way. ...

• Word Count: 1604
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

One of his best works was a short story entitled, Notes of a Native Son. ... The reason why this was so disturbing was that this was the North and in the days of slavery, people fought their way out of the South just to get there. ...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jane is called "Ticey" during her days as a slave and has no parents; her mother died as a result of a beating when Jane was a child, and Jane did not know her father. Until she is around nine, Jane works in the Big House caring for the white children. ...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"I promise you I wrote it. I can't tell you more, but read the book, and the piece in the last September's Reader's Digest and you"ll know who I really am" (Griffin, 37). In the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, he tells about his experience as a white man that changes his pigmentation of...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Celie's dreams never deteriorate and she is eventually delivered from the oppression of her younger days. ... "Black males vehemently denounce both works and cite the film's stereotypical representations....

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

Towards the end of the play, Charlie works alongside Purlie to place the church in Purlie's name. ... Her childhood days was growing up speaking Spanish with her dad who thought he was Puerto Rican. ...

• Word Count: 1924
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In her earlier days Walker was on the edge of committing suicide but overcame all her depression and stress. ... Also because throughout most of the book he abuses Celie even though she has sex with him, cares for his three children, cleans his house, and works his fields (Lewis 1). ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School