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- 381: Alice Walker
- ... at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In 1970, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, about the ravages of racism on a black sharecropping family. In Meridian, 1976, her second novel, she explored a woman’s successful efforts to find her place in the Civil Rights Movement. She read much ... supportive of both, and that is a very admirable quality. Alice Walker was a very personal author who was not afraid to show or hide anything in the struggle against racism and support for black women.
- 382: Black Panther Party
- ... a spear in one hand and a rifle in the other, the poster depicted Huey Newton as a symbol of his generation's anger and courage in the face of racism and imperialism (Albert and Hoffman 4, 45). His intellectual capacity and community leadership abilities helped to founded the Black Panther Party (BPP). Newton played an instrumental role in refocusing civil ... Black struggle for Civil Rights. The Panthers symbolized what ex-panther and political prisoner; Sundiata Acoli calls "the United States racial nightmare." This nightmare had this country so polarized by racism that Blacks would take up guns against whites in armed rebellion. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI denied that Black Panther Party's stated purpose was to protect the ...
- 383: Racial Segregation
- ... You Can't Get Lost In Cape Town, the woman tries to deal with racial segregation by being involved in an interracial relationship. In a way she is not fighting racism, where as it is society who is fighting her because she can't help who she loves. The woman's plight presents how unjust life in South Africa could be for a black woman. In Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants the woman's racism is sharply contrasted by her support from a black man. Her racist views are ludicrous in her position but she never questions them, just as many white South Africans never ...
- 384: Famous African Americans
- ... at Austin. In 1982 she was awarded the university's Lyndon B. Johnson chair of National Policy. During the 1992 Democratic Convention, Jordan earned praise for her powerful speech against racism and intolerance among both whites and blacks. Edward Brooke, American legislator, was born in Washington, D.C. and educated at Howard University. During World War II Brooke served in the ... SCLC strategy, one intended to "bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible." Having begun to recognize the deeper relationships of economics and poverty to racism, King now called for a "reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." Along with demands for stronger civil and voting rights legislation and for a meaningful poverty budget ...
- 385: Candidate Profile Paper on Alan Keyes
- ... me out. A conservative black American is somebody who simply doesn’t correspond to what the media believes black people ought to be. And I know that folks think that racism is just about hatred, but that was never true. It was always about prejudice, about applying stereotypes to people on the basis of their racial grouping and then excluding them ... Bush, nobody else could have gotten away with that. I think Alan Keyes has gotten away with more just because he’s black. I think its kink of a reverse racism” (2). This conversation paints the perfect picture of the controversy that Alan Keyes and his ethnic origin have caused. Although Keyes’ technique is strong in the debate ring, Keyes continues ...
- 386: Los Angeles-city Of Quartz
- ... gather that it is not just blacks and Hispanics' they don't want living in their territory, but Asians and probably anyone that is not an Anglo. This form of racism is very sad. We have enough racism everywhere else, without saying who can live where and fighting to keep certain ethnic groups out of your neighborhood, when they are such a large part of the city's ...
- 387: Indian Affairs
- ... did not advance the quality of the culture. This occurrence was a set back for the culture, it gave violence and intolerance an approval and set roots for hatred and racism. One of the least noble occurrences between 1865 to the 1900 was the Spanish American War and the forceful control of the Philippines. The war with Spain was completely unnecessary ... violence in order to reinforce the laws. In 1882 49 blacks were lynched in the South, ten years later there were 161 victims of the white mob. During this period racism and hatred is clearly apparent and racial segregation had become an accepted way of life. Another problem during this period were the Political Machines. These machines ran parallel to the ...
- 388: Langston Hughes And The Harlem
- ... all my race has accomplished. “We” built the pyramids, and we have been around as long as these rivers. This is a positive poem. It does not talk directly about racism nor puts down the white race for being prejudiced (Lauter 1612-13). In the poem, “I, Too” he describes how he is also part of what America is. Even if ... people, and will be ashamed of how they were treated. This poem gives hope to the black community. It makes them yearn for the day when equality will come and racism will end. Too bad that the day has still not yet come in this century (Lauter 1618). In his poem, “Harlem” this is addressed. He wonders what happens to dreams ...
- 389: Silko's "Ceremony": Summary
- ... cure. Not a medical white cure for an Indian problem, such as Tayo's that can only be cured amongst themselves. What this novel has done is brought out what racism and how it affects everyone. The sad thing about it though is that this is racism amongst a same culture and worst of all amongst family members. We have to remember not to play into the white man's world because the only thing that it ...
- 390: Do Less Blacks Than Their Fell
- ... an ignorance for black culture. He does not take the time to address the other legitimate reasons accounting for the black deficiency, but continues to rattle on about prejudice and racism, not even stopping to document proper sources. Have morals and values changed in America and left blacks behind? According to Gaiter, the web can’t help us achieve our ‘50 ... never dreamed of. The “American Dream” as we know it has not vanished or been left behind, it has simply been revised to include family time and personal goals. Although racism has decreased in society today, it still is a threat to getting people on the Web. Nowadays, blacks are not the only one being discriminated against-it’s all minorities ...
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