Later on, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in publications such as Crisis Magazine and Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... (Hughes 91) He writes that all the white kids are free, that they have no worries about not being free. But Hughes says that it doesn't bug them, that it is no worry that black people cannot be president, how everyone is free in their eyes. ... (Hughes 91) That black people are not free, they are trapped in a white world, that only white people can be president, that white people are the only ones getting liberty a...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the first of the two essays in "The Fire Next Time," is an epistle written to his nephew who is 14-years-old. He is writing it on a particularly important day in racial history, the 100th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation in which US President Abraham Lincoln declared that black slaves were now legally free. ... The essay expands upon the role that race has played throughout American history. ... He writes, "If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. ...

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" is a very powerful essay where the author progressively outlines, with a few "flashbacks", the influence society and his father's actions had on his own beliefs and morals. ... Initially, Baldwin cannot understand his father's bitterness and hatred towards white people and life, but as the essay progresses, you can see he no longer judges his father because he starts to understand him. ... The third part of the essay intensively describes the funeral. ... He learned to keep his heart free of hatred using two ideas: that of despair, and tha...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
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English Essay EXAMINE THE WAY IN WHICH LANGUAGE AND SELECTION OF DETAIL HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED TO POSITION THE READERS RESPONSES TO PEOPLE AND ISSUES. ... The key term that strikes you when reading this novel is the free range use of the term "nigger". ... Back then when the book was written the term nigger was very free range and people just used fit in everyday life. ...

• Word Count: 839
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In an essay by Frederick Douglass, who began his life as a slave, it is proven that his masters strongly opposed his wishes to become educated, for the very reason that he would begin to see things in perspective. ... Though his early education was the source of his torment, it is what levitated him to higher grounds, and eventually it is what freed him of his chains. ...

• Word Count: 698
• Approx Pages: 3

They bent the laws to work in their favor and were free to terrorize, hang, shoot, and rape slaves anyway they felt like. Sick of the war, and deepening involvement with reconstruction socially, the whole country seemed to tire with the concerns of the freed slaves. Economically reconstruction was unsuccessful in trying to get the new freed slaves back to work. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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