... discrimination and unequal government funding. Every child deserves the right to an education. A good education means going to a school that fulfills the needs of every child enrolled. This includes providing books, lab materials, and computers. Many schools in East St. Louis and Chicago, however, do not qualify simply because they don't have enough money. Some schools cannot even afford ... books. Many of their texts are outdated or are missing pages. Therefore, they are useless to those who read it. One particular school provides only 12 computers for a population of 2,000 ... schoo...

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... slowly starts to make his transition back to a white man. He develops a method called "zigzagging". As a white man, Griffin accidentally runs into a Negro teenager. He is alarmed to see the teen automatically pulls out a switchblade in self-defense. Upon his return home, Griffin is ecstatic to be reunited with his family. However, Griffin discovers a dummy in his name was hung in ... of literature. It tells the truth from the point of view of a white man who becomes a Negro for six weeks. One can look at hundreds of articles, read thousands of books, but they"ll never truly know what li...

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... . There she majored in literature and graduated in 1938. While attending these schools, Brooks began her career. At the age of seven she began to write poetry. During her early teen years, her poem "Eventide," appeared in a famous magazine of the time, "American Childhood." Over seventy-five of her poems were printed in the "Chicago Defender," a local newspaper. At age sixteen ... , she met James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes, two famous African American poets of the day. Brooks is the author of almost thirty books, including a novel, Maud Martha, and an autobiography, Report from Pa...

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