I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989. African-Americans had lived around and beside me the whole time I lived in California and I never thought anything about it. ... He also explained to me that Oklahoma was a southern state and in most southern states people still thought of black people as a lower form of humanity. Kind of like how people in California think of Mexican-Americans. ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As we get off the freeway and turn the corner, there it looms, my new home, one of California's largest and oldest correctional facilities. ... Then as you look around there is a mural around the whole cafeteria depicting California at different stages in history and a plaque stating that this was done in 1977 by inmates. ... For the Mexicans you have your Northern and Southern gangs. The blacks have northern and southern gangs also, the Crips (southern) and the Bloods (northern). ... The white people can only back up the southern Mexican gangs and vice versa. ...

• Word Count: 2223
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Maya Angelou writes on her experience living in Southern rural then in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the book is a heartwarming yet tragic story of her life from birth to young adulthood. ... She was sexually molested by her mother's boyfriend at the age of eight that made her shut off from the world and spoke only to Bailey for years, until her teacher helped her come out of the silence after which she moved to California. She says, "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat" (Angel...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To Marguerite, the southern life was hard but she adjusted to the routine quickly. ... After a while, their dad arrived in Stamps and decided to take them back with him to California. ... When she became fourteen she received a scholarship to the California Labor School to study drama and dance. ...

• Word Count: 736
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This movement was quite radical in that they moved from the Southern states towards the Northern and Western states. ... African Americans migrated throughout the United States into the Indian Territories, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, the Rockies and some came as far West as California. ...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2

His stories have been noted for their convincing characters and powerful themes presented within authentic - often folk like narratives that tap into the complex world of Southern rural life. ... Catherine Camier is about a young black man who returns to Bayonne after completing his education in California. ... A Gathering of Old Men presents a cast of Southern black men who after a life of subordination and intimidation made a defiant stand against injustice. ... In 1972 he won fiction gold metal from Commonwealth Club of Old Men of California. ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As a result of this by 1966 less than 1% of Southern schools had actually desegregated. ... The discriminatory practices of Southern City buses were meticulously detailed in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. ... In 1957 he became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ... The organization later became intimately involved with voting registration of southern blacks. ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

During the 1850's abolitionists in the North questioned the morality of southern slavery by writing and preaching about the rights blacks were denied. ... Southern blacks faced new discrimination every day whether it be economically, socially, or politically. ... The 14th Amendment conferred civil rights and citizenship for all former slaves, and was incorporated into the requirements for a southern state to regain its statehood. ... In elections, southern states used poll ...

• Word Count: 8719
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

"Near six o"clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia" (Rampersad 10). Robinson moved to California when he was a young child and that is where he grew up. ... After finishing his junior college career, Robinson was offered a scholarship to play for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). ...

• Word Count: 1632
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The "Whites Only" signs, as prevalent in Miami as they were in other southern cities, stood everywhere as reminders in case someone forgot. ... Since the city's birth, Miami had been strongly opposed to hiring blacks as police officers, as was generally true throughout the southern states. ... "Invited by NAACP," as the upper heading reads, the article informs the public of Representative James Roosevelt of California, a leading advocate of civil rights and the speech he"ll be making later that day. ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"One out of every twenty-one Black American males will be murdered in their lifetime. Most will die at the hands of another Black male." This is the first thing that pops on the screen when the movie "Boyz n the Hood " comes on. This is a movie that portrays young black males growing up in the hood....

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

David Adams, a Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, defines a hate crime as "instances of ordinary crimes done hatefully or prejudicially...when the offender has targeted a victim "because of" or "by reason of" race, religion, sexual identity, or gender" (par 11). ... Hate crimes are often committed by hate groups which are, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center, "an organization having beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics" (qtd. in Mulholland par 12). ...

• Word Count: 1223
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this book Maya describes her life growing up as a young insecure African American girl in the South during the 1930's and in California in the 1940's. While growing up in the south, she had to deal the southern racism and daily lynching mobs. ...

• Word Count: 1214
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Rioting mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts, California, pillaged, burned and killed, while 500 policemen and 5000 national guardsmen struggled in vain to contain their fury. ...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, express a new spirit of protest amongst Southern blacks. ... In the early 1960s King led SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation.) in a series of protest campaigns that gained national attention. ...

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

While serving as Pontifex Maximus, Hale was attending Southern Illinois University and obtaining his Law degree. ... In California COTC members Geremy von Rineman and Jill Scarborough were arrested in a plot to bomb Los Angeles' largest black church. 1995 John McLaughlin, a close friend of Matt Hale, is sentenced to 2- ½ years probation after he is convicted of stockpiling weapons that were in the words of the COTC meant for the "Ultimate race war."" 1997 Jules Fettu, a member of the WCOTC whom oversees the churches official web site, and two other WCOTC members are charged with ass...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Omi is a Professor of ethnic studies at the University of California-Berkley, and Winant is a Professor of sociology at Temple University. ... Its dispersal includes the eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italy, India, and parts of the Middle East. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The Southwest peoples including the Hohokam, Mogollan, and Anasazi, originated out of New Mexico and Southern Arizona used Mesoamerican crops and farming techniques. ... The Native Americans also lived in the Great Basin, which is present day Nevada, Utah, Eastern California, Wyoming, and Colorado. ... Along with the Pacific Northwest, which originated in modern day British Columbia and Northern California, there is a mild climate and lots of rainfall. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a book about a young girl named Celie whose character undergoes a huge transformation in attitude from a passive and quite girl to a strong and courageously confident woman (Color 1). Alice Walker is an incredible woman who uses her writings to portray the ha...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for w...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School