... ; she was fined $14, but she had started a new non-violent protest of segregation lasting 382 days: the Montgomery bus boycott ("Rosa Parks"). Stories of courage and hatred bombard one reading a history book: the attacks on the Freedom Riders (Weinstein and Rubel 594); the Edmund Pettus Bridge demonstration (606); the March on Washington (601); the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church ... Voting Rights Act (Boyer et al. 975). The former banned discrimination in public facilities, "federally assisted programs," and most employment, and "enlarged federal powers to protect voting righ...

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... other children. She was given the privileges to learn to read and write. Phillis learned English with remarkable speed, and, although she never attended a formal school, she also learned Greek and Latin. Around age twelve she was reading Greek and Latin classics; also reading passages from the Bible. Phillis was soon on her way to writing poetry. Around age 14 she began to ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... their own future. "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands in the words of the ... of America never receives any treatment better then the African Americans. Even in the years of 2002, some of the Asians in America still are called a "chink" everyday purposely. After reading this great speech by King, I strongly agree and believe that everybody in this...

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... -violent revolution much more appealing to the white audience. King also uses metaphors to illustrate his points. For Example "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. •He does this in a way that supports the ... in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky • After reading the letter and understanding the role that the 50's a...

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... prison (black, Hispanic, white) have a working agreement, which was too much cooperation for Derek. In prison, we see Derek undergoes a slow transition from a white zealot to a loner - a brutal rape helps speed the process. After three years, you notice that Derek's hatred for blacks disappears. He makes friends with a black man (Guy Torry) while doing laundry duty. The friendship builds to a point ... Derek interact with others by playing basketball, Lamont had more leverage to negotiate for his life. During the three years, Derek became like a ghost. He spent most of his time reading ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the identity papers of a freed slave. "Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. Minutes were hours, and hours were days during this part of my flight ... nature of the slaves" lives. In fact, thanks to its choice of words, rhythms, cadences, scenes and people, this book clearly represents what millions of black people experienced during slavery. Reading a book like In the Castle of My Skin...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School