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Point would be the training site for the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions. Ironically, these combat units never actually saw comba...

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

first novel, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1947) (Meador 14). This book, which was based on actual World War II experienc...

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

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

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

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

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

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...

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

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

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

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...

In five pages environmental factors such as carcinogens exposure are discussed as they relate to the high breast cancer mortality ...

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

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...

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

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

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

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

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

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...

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...

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

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)....