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citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...