Redeemers are also known as Bourbon Democrats as a reference to the Bourbon family of Spain. The Bourbon family was known for forgetting nothing and learning nothing, so the Redeemers were labeled as Bourbons for their attempts to bring Mississippi back to the way it was before the Civil War2. ... First of all the election between him and Alcorn had already split the Republican Party in Mississippi8. ... It was due to the economy, high taxes, racial tension, loss of northern support, the split within the Republican Party, and a number of other issues. ...

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Langston Hughes Langston Hughes opened his first volume of poems with the expression of his- and every Negro's- "soul world": "I am a Negro: /Black as the night is black, /Black like the depths of my Africa" (Emanuel 17). When the women at the box office of the only movie theatre in Lawrence, Kan...

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For example, the section marked autumn, which is characteristic of harvesting and reaping the results of spring planting, is the section of the novel where we are introduced to the Breedlove Family reaping a harvest from the seeds of racism, poverty, anger, etc described in the spring section (James 10). ... There are many themes arranging from, black family life, black community, religion, and physical abuse. ... (Morrison 22) But her extreme fondness for the cup also represents an indictment against the whole of a value system that has afflicted not only Pecola and her family, but also an en...

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Here is one point where the ideal becomes fragmented and split:  some imagine Squanto, a savior who helped a group who were on the brink of death to survive, and then once the pilgrims had the ability to live on their own means of survival, it's almost as if he was some sort fairy godmother, waved a magic wand, things were better, then 'poofed' into disappearance (at least within storytelling). ... Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after gen...

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He had been cheated out of his farmland by a white man and couldn't support the family any longer. ... Whites split on the issues. ... Eventually Parks and her family moved to Detroit and in 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers Jr. to manage his office, as he was also a civil rights leader. ...

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Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are also portrayed as piously religious people who profess themselves to be believers in the word of God, yet they see nothing wrong with keeping slaves and the brutality of disconnecting Jim from his family. ...

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