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…a "cultural melting pot," integrating people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Although the nation's history has been checkered on the process of successfully integrating people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, Americans can feel proud of the many…

…Many literary pieces, often offer the thoughtful reader lessons to retain and apply throughout their own lives. In Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison, racism and the struggle for racial equality are examined throughout the course of the novel…

…If what they say is true and that “home where is the heart is:” the African-American soldier’s heart must have been torn as he went to battle fighting for democracy while at home his own blood suffered from racial prejudice. In a two-front war…

…served as director and chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. At the NAACP Marshall began to make a name for himself. He helped develop and implement strategy to fight racial segregation throughout the United States. He argued…

…of Southern Democrats thus he "appointed segregationist to lifetime federal judgeships in the South; he delayed in issuing his promised Executive Order to end racial discrimination..." perhaps most importantly Kennedy feared the race issue would prove nationally…

…Miyamoto finds himself the focus of smoldering racial tensions when he is charged with murdering a popular local fisherman, Carl Heine. Guterson writes about "The San Piedro small town atmosphere in the 1950's and it is captured well." Guterson expresses…

…significant issues Gordimer likes to deal with in her story are racial discrimination and prejudice, society’s insecurities, and the persuasive way fairy tales have with children. Gordimer’s “Once Upon A Time” has the feeling of insecurity right away…

…to identify with the story because a mom can understand wanting your child to do well and grow up to marry in the image of their mom. There are multi-racial marriages amongst all races but the black man and white woman is the most common with over 200,000…

…, pointing out that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had owned slaves. Douglas accused Lincoln of being an abolitionist at heart, and a dangerous fanatic whose policies would result in racial combonation and racial equality. It was the last issue…

…of segregation, although there are still minor mishaps with racial problems, things are usually amazingly peaceful considering only 47 years ago there was a law that was passed which ended segregation. The small racial disputes that occur today are just the after…