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

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

"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

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 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