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Equal Rights for African Americans

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the fight post Civil War for African American equal rights. This paper includes the formati...

African American Education and Booker T. Washington

In six pages the role of Booker T. Washington as teacher to his African American people is discussed. Five sources are cited in t...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Hotel California and California History

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

African American Conservatism in the United States

In five pages this paper examines African American conservatism in the United States with Republican presidential primary candidat...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

African American Reparation Argument

In six pages this research paper discusses the necessity of African American reparations as a result of 250 years of enslavement a...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

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

African American Imagery in the Nineteenth Century

or by those whose paintings are still recalled and researched. It indicates that although some struggles to free African Americans...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

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

Africana Studies and Diaspora

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

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

"The War Drags On" by Donovan

This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Healthcare Disparities, African American Residents of West Virginia

This research paper discusses disparities in health outcomes that characterize the African American population of Mineral County, ...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Multicultural Educational Environment and Counseling Issues

In eight pages African American students are examined in terms of literature regarding dropout rates for adolescents and college s...

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...