... a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth's lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. The very next day they ... books as March 7, 1965. It was a Sunday and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital, Montgomery (Microsoft). Also, there to help organize the voting rights ...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth's lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. The very next day they ... books as March 7, 1965. It was a Sunday and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital, Montgomery (Microsoft). Also, there to help organize the voting rights ...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... you marry a nigger, don't ever come home again. Don't come back." (McBride, 215) She did marry Dennis and from then on she was considered dead to her family. They sat shiva, a Jewish ceremony to mourn their dead, and washed their hands of Ruth for good. Even when Ruth's mother died the family would not see her. After Ruth's mother died ... friends with mothers. As a young man he had no time to look beyond his own poverty to discover what identity was. In college he saw that white students were free in a way he could never be. Most of his friends and all the women he dated were black but ...

• Word Count: 2057
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... you marry a nigger, don't ever come home again. Don't come back." (McBride, 215) She did marry Dennis and from then on she was considered dead to her family. They sat shiva, a Jewish ceremony to mourn their dead, and washed their hands of Ruth for good. Even when Ruth's mother died the family would not see her. After Ruth's mother died ... friends with mothers. As a young man he had no time to look beyond his own poverty to discover what identity was. In college he saw that white students were free in a way he could never be. Most of his friends and all the women he dated were black but ...

• Word Count: 2057
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Kennedy and Johnson administrations however many senators felt that Powell was shown political favoritism by government agencies when receiving federal loans and grants. "Powell was not above seeking White House help when he needed personal political support, to get a bill passed, to protect his committee's jurisdiction and power, and the White House was willing to reciprocate with the volatile congressman ... "Mr. Civil Rights". He was known for proposing anti-poverty legislation and misusing government funds allotted for his congressional department, education and labor. He attacked ra...

• Word Count: 1701
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... his mother decided she had moved her son around too much. She enlisted her mother, Mary Sampson Patterson Langston, to take over the care of Hughes so she would be free to move around and Langston would have a somewhat normal life. While living with his grandmother, Langston was able to learn about the many successes of his forbearers. Mary was the ... their lives to inspire him. "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street - gay songs, because you had to be gay or die; sad songs, because help being sad sometimes. But gay or sad, you kept on living and you kept on ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School