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This research report looks at the robber barons who lived during the time of the American Civil War. Who were they? What did they ...

In six pages this paper examines the impact of the U.S. Civil War upon the American family structure and the effects upon juvenile...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

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

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

will result in them believing it. Similarly, keeping African-Americans in the degrading conditions of slavery has instilled a bel...

Washington and Realistic Hope For many individuals it is one thing to have ideals and to struggle for those ideals their entire l...

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

The idea for forcing such integration was still alive but did not take any real concrete action until the 1960s when John F....

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

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

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

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

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

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...