Hughes wrote about the many aspects of African American life. ... Hughes wrote all of these because of the profound love and interest in what he does. ... Even the way Hughes wrote showed African American influences. ... According to Meltzer, " The critic had hailed him as a poet who played authentic blues with consummate skill" (123). ... Like every good story Hughes wrote there is always an ending; he was no exception. ...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Music with different beats was being played like jazz, spirituals, and hymns. ... Last, in 1924 a writer and editor named Jesse Fauset that wrote "There Is Confusion." ... Hughes wrote literary types of writing like poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. ... Another writer of the time that wrote poems about black experience was Countee Cullen. ... Second, was that African American literature plays an important part in shaping American literature. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. ... In reply, Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), which he revised in later years; in final form, it appeared in 1882 under the title Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Quarles, Benjamin, Microsoft Encarta). ... Christianity also played an important role in Frederick Douglass's life, as well as his autobiography. ... After writing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sla...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his Narrative, he wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. ... After writing his narrative he wrote another biography in 1855, My Bondage And My Freedom. ... Frederick Douglass played a major role in the redefinition of American literature in the Civil War time period. ... He wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

All of these men, including Chamberlain, who was a Lieutenant Colonel for the North, played important roles in early Confederate victories such as, the Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. ... In defense of his view, McCarthy wrote, "None of this is to say that [Ronald] Maxwell has made a one-sided film [it] has to emphasize one side more strongly than the other just to achieve balance" (Gods and Generals). ... In defense of the film, and its lesser emphasis on southern slavery, McCarthy wrote, "This is a failing, but a minor one, and perhaps one that cann...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Atlantic Monthly wrote after the battle, "Through the cannon smoke of that dark night, the manhood of the colored race shines before many eyes that would not see." The New York Tribune wrote that the 54th's brave assault "made Fort Wagner such a name to the colored race as Bunker Hill has been for ninety years to the white Yankees." ... Matthew Broderick plays Shaw and while there has been some criticism of his performance, I think it is the best thing he's ever done and he did it well. Cary Elwes plays his second in command, Major Cabot Forbes. The best performances, however, ...

• Word Count: 1925
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Sadly, her mother died while Harriet was only four years old, leaving the duties of raising the large Beecher family to her older sister, Catherine, who would play a large role in Harriet's life. ... She wrote fiction for profit, but still somehow managed to find time to write moral editorials for publication without payment. ... Harriet wrote a second book, in which the hero was modeled on Nat Turner. ... She worried that Lincoln took so long to issue it, and wrote articles and letters urging Lincoln to free the slaves. ... After the ending of the Civil War, Harriet wrote another boo...

• Word Count: 1635
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Douglass was played significant role in the civil war by convincing Lincoln that the main focus of the war should be the abolishment of slavery and influenced a large amount of blacks to fight for the Union. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to dev...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bryant wrote his finest poetry in his youth. ... She wrote several plays for the experimental theater group the Provincetown Players, notably Aria da Capo (1919), a satirical fantasy on war. ... Sandburg also wrote what is generally considered the definitive biography of United States president Abraham Lincoln. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Jones wrote about how Ohio was a free state and how its population was filled with blacks willing to fight but laws that were put in place did not allow it. ... Frederick Douglas played a vital role in the makings of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Infantry. ... In the letter, the colored Private states that the reason he wrote the letter was to inform his sister how he and his fellow solders were doing. ...

• Word Count: 1835
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Qtd. ... Richard Wright wrote of an uncle whom during this period owned a small business which saw a great deal of profit, and as a result of that profit he was subject to a great deal of envy from local whites. ... For years women had aided in the movement to end slavery, playing a prominent part in the prewar abolitionist movement and often pointed out that both women and blacks lacked basic civil rights and later in the movements to give blacks civil and voting rights, though had themselves been deni...

• Word Count: 2353
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His activities were wide and varied including hunting, fishing, horse racing, playing the violin, and he required a love to read which counterbalanced his small amount of schooling (Wheeler 1, 2). ... Mary Anna was the love of Jackson's life and he adored her and wrote her often when the war separated them, and even brought her along on a few marches. ... He fought, as was his duty, but many times he wrote of how he missed his wife and wished to return home. ...

• Word Count: 2109
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• Grade Level: High School

Racism played a large factor in what happened to the Native Americans and other indigenous peoples of North America. ... Instead, once again, racism would come into play and many Mexicans would not be recognized as American citizens but instead they were seen as foreigners and they would lose their land just like the Native Americans did in court disputes with white Americans. ...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate