Alan Freeman took few of the most obvious and visible examples from some of the most famous Supreme Court cases and split them into two perspectives. ... All the lives lost, people sacrificed, cases won, families broken, and many more ordeals like this, is now simply known to us as question in a Sociology of Law class as "what factors influenced the civil rights movement, and what roles did the public/private divide play in this?" ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The influence of grassroots activism is clearly evident in the Northern citizens struggle to promote black unity and to improve the living conditions of the black community, "At the grassroots, economics were not divorceable from civil rights (for black activists or white segregationists), even if historians and politicians in recent decades have begun to split them." ... This decision incensed many white families and students and consequently resulted in the occurrence of a great deal of riots. ...

• Word Count: 1231
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most times families were pulled apart and never saw each other again and this helped the Americans break or strip down these people in order to rebuild them the way they wanted. ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that this story represents every single African American family across the United States. ... When speaking towards identity and representation, there are many African American writers and leaders who had the peoples of this culture split ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Here is one point where the ideal becomes fragmented and split:  some imagine Squanto, a savior who helped a group who were on the brink of death to survive, and then once the pilgrims had the ability to live on their own means of survival, it's almost as if he was some sort fairy godmother, waved a magic wand, things were better, then 'poofed' into disappearance (at least within storytelling). ... Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after gen...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate