As the two black students prepared to enter the college, George Wallace stood in the doorway, blocking their way addressing the need for segregation. ... In October 1995, two black students from Rowan College in New Jersey were beaten on the college campus by a couple of white football players. ... The two students suffered minor injuries and have recovered. ... This is just one example of the racial prejudice in colleges, even in a small college of 9,000 students. ... When students learn this behavior from high school and their parents they take it on to college with them. ...

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Theme for English B "Theme for English B- is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a seemingly simple assignment as an opportunity to inspect the complicated issue of race relations in America. ... He tells us that he was the only "colored student in my class-, Then he takes us on his journey home where from that prestigious establishment of Columbia he returns to Harlem through a park, crosses St. ...

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Do minorities really need a handicap to earn college acceptance? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ... All this so we can benefit from a more diverse student body. Many colleges seek diversity among their students, but is race really where they will find it? ... Now universities can be made inaccessible to a qualified student because he is not a minority; which is also unfai...

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Upon A Hill: Reflection of Langston Hughes" "Theme For English B" In "Theme for English B," the speaker is a student in an English class. ... The speaker does not regard himself like the other students because there is no mention of the other students in the class. ... The hierarchy of the class says that the instructor is more important and stands above the students. ... The college sits on a hill above Harlem, which gives the impression of superiority: "This college on the hill above Harlem" (9). ... Not every black or white person is able to attend college. ...

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He is now attending college "on the hill above Harlem". The speaker stating "I am the only colored student in my class" shows that very few people of color were able to attend college at that time. ... The college is set on "the hill above Harlem" (Meyers). ... It also implies that the college, as well as the white students that attend it, is "higher" or better than the colored people who live in Harlem, and they look down on these people. ... Just as students learn from teachers, teachers learn from students. ...

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At the University of Michigan Law School, the way that they accept students is a point system. ... In the text there is no information about the background of the minority students. ... I have already experienced firsthand reverse discrimination since I have been in college. On the very first day of school, I met a Latino student and we began to talk about how he was making it through college. ... After I had thought about it, I decided that I was happy for the Latino student, and that I hope he does well in college. ...

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Pre-college Education The inequality in the college preparation of black Americans can potentially serve to restrict their access to college by limiting pre-college academic programs and resources. These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... Diseducation 5 Pre-college education for the black male, for the most part, is set up for him to fail. ... In some cases, the preparation is so awful that college does not even become a factor in the life of some black men. ... This is ...

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If you look at reality, however, you will see that there are still many more white Americans in college than any other race. ... Not to mention that these minorities aren't necessarily asked to go to a certain college, but however must apply just like the rest of the nation. ... Their reasons for dropping out are the same for any college age student. They do fairly well in highschool, but find the unlimited freedom of college to much to grasp all at once. ...

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From junior high to high school, high school to college, and from college to "the real world" including a job, we work and work and work to have the privilege of being our own boss, to own property, maybe even have a nice summer condo in Jamaica. That may work for the hard-working white citizen, but, for black students, there's a crack in the "system". ... My mom was an above average student. ... My dad was the stereotypical black male who never went to class, always got in trouble, and made it to an okay college. He now has gone back to college and wishes he had paid attention so he woul...

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In other scenarios, minority students who apply to colleges around the U.S simply get accepted because of their cultural background, rather than grades and qualifications like they do to the Caucasian students. ... For there can be a program that can prepare and even train minority high school students to go to college and meet the same standards that of a Caucasian student. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ... Instead, all students should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. ... Instead the school would rather accept a Mex...

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Sometimes the white students from Wingate College would visit the restaurant and give visual harassment to the boys. ... The student always wound up being asked to leave but alas most times not before they would do some sort of fool trickery not becoming of a college student (put catsup in the salt shaker or mustard in the sugar jar) in the restaurant. ...

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I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem," (3). ... Finally finding himself, "here," at a college located on a hill above harlem. This hill above harlem symbolizes a higher class and higher living that the character had finally reached with the white men but still being the only black student in his classes, feels lost and out of place although having earned where he is, his journey there also separates him having had gone through a tougher path then what is created for a white student as shown through the black/white ratio. ... But...

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I am a Latina college student and naturally that means that I must have lived a difficult life to get here. ... Unfortunately I was never told until I was in college. ... Especially from what the teacher commented on my paper telling me that by this time of college I should know how to write a good college paper. ... Thanks to that teacher I decided to change that I started to take reading classes until I got to a college reading level. ... I considered myself a hardworking, intelligent student who is proud to be Mexican. ...

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They were joined by newly formed groups like CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and by SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee). ... Lawson would train hundreds of students in nonviolent techniques through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... In September 1957, Eisenhower finally acted to protect civil rights when the state of Arkansas refused to admit nine black students to Little Rock high school. Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

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These people I targeted were majority college students ranging from age eighteen to twenty seven. ... Providing equal opportunity and access to minority students at major universities, especially in areas that demand a high level of skill, are a major component of the plan to equalize in America's labor field. ... Although college-educated black women have reached earnings similarity with college-educated white women, college- educated black men earn 76% of the earnings of their white male counterparts (Do Racial Preferences help). ...

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He was at different times, a model student and a drop-out. ... One morning a couple of years later from that event, when he was Oberlin College, he received a letter that had Ms. ... Later that day, James McBride was standing on the street with a group of black students, and one of them basically said that white people are all rich, and also have no problems. He completely agreed with the student, but felt terrible lying about that. This gives the entire event a sense of irony, because any comments that the black student made about white people being rich, therefore not having any problems wha...

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While at Princeton, John received the same education and shared some of the same experiences as every other student that attended the college. ... Du Boise himself went to college and then on to graduate school at Harvard. ...

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In "Black Men and Public Space," Brent Staples explains his how receiving an inheritance of race, has made him submissive to society. No matter where he is, what he's doing or what his attire is, he is considered a threat to those who don't look like him. Staples testifies about being constantly avo...

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Attending his first college at Columbia University to study engineering, he dropped out with a B+ average. ... The boy becomes a cook and waiter in Paris, a famished beachcomber in Genoa, and a student at Columbia and Lincoln Universities. ...

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When he got to the university hall, all he found was one building, so he told the students to build the rest for the university. ... He also wrote about black morality, urbanization, blacks in buisness, college bred African Americans, and black crimes. ...

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I felt particularly nervous about class because I was unsure how the other students would react to someone who is not very fluent in English. ... After seeing the pervasiveness of racism even on a college campus, I think that the only way to combat racism is to accept the racist remarks and consider it as ignorance. ...

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During the Supreme Court case in the movie, in order to put an end to segregation, thru good Marshall had to prove that segregation was mentally damaging to black students. ... There are lots of black students that get better grades in school than people of other races. ... They can now attend the same colleges and have better chances at getting good jobs. ...

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On September 4th, the first day of the new school year, the people of Alexandria were awaiting the arrival of the black students who were being bused in from other schools. The new minority students were met with protesters, hostility and racial slurs (I.e. monkey, coon). ... However, this town loved football, it was their "way of life" and they knew that a lot of their children would be seniors and if they did not play it would hurt their chances at the college level. ...

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In school, he is the only student in his class that does not receive corporal punishment, because it would be unthinkable for a black teacher to hit a white child. ... When he transfers to the mostly white school, he realizes that everyone around him is much more intelligent than the students in his previous school. ... By going to college in California, his view of America changes drastically because he sees similarities between the two cities. ...

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