Unfairness It's funny how we grew up saying "sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me". It's all too sad because that is not true. It is unfair that people are treated unfairly because of the way they look or how they act or the color of their skin. R...

The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States is a struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and racial equality. Many people have challenged discrimination with many activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation...

The Civil War began in early 1861 after South Carolina seceded from the Union and lasted until 1865. Reconstruction began as soon as the war ended but was a slow and strenuous process. The North was faced with the dilemma of whether or not to punish the South. They hesitated to punish the South b...

The Liberal Martin Luther King Jr. Ideology: "Any comprehensive and mutually consistent set of ideas by which s social group makes sense of the world. An ideology needs to provide some explanation of how things have come to be as they are, some indication of where they are heading (to pro...

Earl Graves was a young black boy who grew up in the tough neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyuesant Brooklyn. He was born in the late 1930's his first venture came at the tender age of seven. He was selling Christmas cards door to door. He was inspired by his father who was a salesman who was very g...

After the civil war, there were many problems left to be solved. Thousands of land and many transportation means were destroyed, millions of soldiers diminished, the Southern economy was ruined, and freed blacks who have no idea what to do with their freedom were the results as well as the problems...

There is a distinct problem with religion in this country. The churches of America have become racially divided, creating inequalities amongst our populace. Racial divisions run deep, and there is an undeniable relationship between religion and racism. Since the inception of this country, we have b...

Slavery Reparations; Pandora's Box The US government owes the descendants of former slaves for years of unfair laws and practices aimed at their ancestors. Slavery was an institution that oppressed African Americans and earned trillions for the government and major corporations. The fede...

As a social and economic institution, slavery originated in the times when humans began farming instead of hunting and gathering. Slave labor became commonplace in ancient Greece and Rome. Slaves were created through the capture of enemies, the birth of children to slave parents, and means of punish...

One of the most influential people in society is Jackie Robinson. Not only has he made a great impact on society by inspiring African Americans to go to colleges or universities and changing the way people look at the All-American sport baseball, but by making history by being the first Afro-Ameri...

The 2000 Presidential election has brought much attention to itself. While a slew of lawyers try to cheat their respective political figurehead into the White House, the topics discussed during the debates have been put aside. Affirmative action and education touch upon a delicate subject, which hin...

OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMENAfrican American women have excelled in virtually every arena of the world'sspectrum. Born of a desire to succeed, Maggie L. Walker, Shirley Chisolm, Corretta ScottKing and Mya Angelou, to name only a few, are sisters that have paved the way towardsexcellence and served as...

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther party for self-defense in October 1996, in Oakland, California. By the late 1960's the Black Panther Party had become the most influential revolutionary nationalist organization in the United States (The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Charl...

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther party for self-defense in October 1996, in Oakland, California. By the late 1960's the Black Panther Party had become the most influential revolutionary nationalist organization in the United States (The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Charl...

When white Southerners spoke bitterly in later years of the effects of Reconstruction, they referred most frequently to the governments Congress helped impose on them-governments they claimed were both incompetent and corrupt, that saddled the region with enormous debts, and that trampled on the rig...

When white Southerners spoke bitterly in later years of the effects of Reconstruction, they referred most frequently to the governments Congress helped impose on them-governments they claimed were both incompetent and corrupt, that saddled the region with enormous debts, and that trampled on the rig...

Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the history of the American society. However, he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preachings of love...

On May 17 2004, the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Bill Cosby addressed a mostly black audience at Washington's Constitution Hall. Cosby has been very successful in his comic career. Famed for his practiced timing and flawless delivery, Cosby is credite...