Hughes ended his essay by saying that, "we build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.... In his speech, we see Douglass state that the fourth of July is not only meaningless to the slave but also to the freed African Americans. ... The holiday therefore can't be taken serious by the slave girl who still serves a master against her will while he celebrates how they have been set free. ... These here were freed slaves who had learnt to read and write and they were using that literacy endowment to shed light on what...

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• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

W.E.B Dubois was born in 1868 to a free family in North, and he had always been around education growing up. ... In 1903, Dubois published a collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, in which he strongly criticized Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will critically evaluate the evidence for the view that the American criminal justice system is racist, comment on the view that the Justice system is racist, with evidence gathered from both sides of the argument, and will conclude to agree with the view that the system is racist. ...

• Word Count: 2307
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

• Word Count: 3584
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate