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…, clinging stubbornly to the shaded and protected cobblestones, the last evidence of a hard winter. Private Hugh Whites stood guard duty in the sentry box beside the Customs House when a young apprentice began baiting him. The boy, a young man named Edward Garrick…

…furthers and includes his own interpretation. The data that Linda Wrightman collected from 1990-91 black law school applicants showed that 80 percent had grades and test scores that, if they had been white, would have led to their being rejected…

…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…

…educational method, Washington revealed the political proficiency and accommodational philosophy that were to characterize his career in the wider arena of race leadership. He convinced southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education…

…as a chauffeur for a wealthy white; he also dreams of buying pearls for his wife Ruth and sending his son Travis to the best university. Walter Lee's idealistic sister Beneatha dreams of using the money to attend medical school and work in Africa. The family matriarch…

…or to give in to the demands of society by ending a friendship. This novel portrays a period in American history where most Southern whites considered blacks as a piece of property. Huck, a white Southern boy, and Jim, a run-away slave, had a friendship…

…in to the demands of society by ending a friendship. This novel portrays a period in American history where most Southern whites considered blacks as a piece of property. Huck, a white Southern boy, and Jim, a run-away slave, had a friendship that was inappropriate…

…facilities such as water fountains, and sitting at lunch counters with whites. These laws were unjust and unconstitutional, and they were not challenged by local authorities. King decided to take action because he, as well as the other million African Americans…

…differences. Even though he is colored, he is still just like his white instructor in many ways. The colored man may appear to be different from the white man on the outside, but we are all the same on the inside. His skin color is different, and he comes from…

…and the right to bare arms, were merely dreams to the freed slaves of 1865. Although they were considered free by the national government, ex-slaves were not free, they were constantly terrorized by whites. The North had won freedom for slaves; however…