With the African American struggle you have your families and community support. ... Reinforce their alienation from the rest of their communities. ... Its funny how the African American male community will embrace a trend that will openly degrade woman and other members of the community but shun what a person dose in the privacy of there own home. ... Religion has a theme of being misused to justify hatred and oppression for the gay community. ... Over hearing this made me think about the HIP_HOP arties who are know for making fun of homosexuals and the gay basing that take...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is a time where "the white segregationist argues that Negro families are really better off in their own communities (Guttmann 1). ... After hearing the location of their new house, Ruth was shocked and immediately said, "Mama, there ain't no colored people living in Clybourne Park (93). ... And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their ...

• Word Count: 1609
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Black people loved reading his works and hearing him read his poems at public presentations all over the country. ... With encouragement from his family and from Alston, Lawrence studied after high school at the Harlem Community Art Center, where he further developed his artistic talent. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This "voice" will do many things, not the least of which is "demonstrate that people of African descent possessed the requisite degrees of reason and whit to create literature, that they were, indeed, full and equal members of the community of rational, sentient beings". ... "On a Sabbath morning, within hearing of the solemn peals of the church bells at a distant village a Northern traveler through the State of Virginia drew up his horse to drink at a sparkling brook, near the edge of a dark pine forest". ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Blacks interested in social change will most likely gravitate to "protest communities", where they hope to find solutions to a complex problem. ... Its significant uses of the black religious community to accomplish political goals also linked the modern movement to the earlier mass movements, which also relied heavily on the church. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. Washington accomplished many amazing obstacles throughout his life. He became perhaps the most prominent black leader of his time. Blacks could gain equality by im...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Another resident reported hearing the shot and seeing a man fitting Willard's description running away. ... Montgomery's black community had ancient criticism about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School