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Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery
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A 3 page consideration of this important historical figure. This paper addresses how education was his ticket to freedom. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPdougSlvCruel.rtf

Free African Americans in Early America
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A 5 page paper which examines what life was like for the free African American in early America. The paper presents an examination of Maria Stewart’s “A Little Better Than Slavery” (1932), John Marrant’s “Account of John Marrant, a Free Black, of the Great Awakening” (1785), and The National Convention of Colored People, Report on Abolition (1847). No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAfreesl.rtf

Freedom Riders Were True to Their Cause:
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This seven-page-paper presents an in-depth discussion and outline of the Freedom Riders of 1961. Opening with an explanation about the Supreme Court decision to desegregate public transit facilities and detailing what happened when two bus loads of multiracial travelers tested the order the paper moved through a chronological timeline for the reader. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: CWfreedo.doc

From A to Z: A touch of the Rural South.
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(5 pp) James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, is compared to Zora Neal Hurston's Mules and Men. Zora Neale Hurston and James Agee present similar external view of the rural south. Hurston has a more authentic internal presentation than Agee. I feel that has developed because she was a returned insider, and Agee, at some level always knew, this was not his world ,he may have been accepted for a month, but he was still the outsider.
Filename: BBAtoZrs.doc

From the States to Africa and Back Again
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A 9 page fictional rendition of the maturation of a young African American boy from impressionable youth to determined man. Emphasizes the influence his experiences in a ten year stay in South Africa had on his eventual direction as an adult back in the United States. Notes the importance of cultural memories and the ways those memories sometimes differ from reality. Concludes that the atrocities which exist in South Africa in many ways parallel those which exist in the States. No sources are listed.
Filename: PPafrFic.wps

Gender Issues in Frederick Douglass’ “My Bondage and My Freedom”
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A 5 page paper which examines gender issues in Frederick Douglass’ “My Bondage and My Freedom.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
Filename: RAdouggn.rtf

George Washington Williams
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An 8 page paper which examines this important African-American journalist and historian, particularly his role in exposing the imperialistic regime of the Belgian Congo’s King Leopold II. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGgwwleo.rtf

Getting Beyond Race
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This 5 page book review of Richard J. Payne's Getting Beyond Race details the authors explanation of the ways race is used by politicians and social scientists to "uphold criminal, intellectual, and sexual stereotypes of nonwhites--blacks in particular." A compelling and interesting review of a cutting edge theory of cultural bias in the world today. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JGAbynrc.wps

Gilyard/Language Competence & Teaching English
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A 5 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes three chapters from Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. The writer argues that this text provides a useful tool to those students contemplating careers in education as English teachers, particularly in regards to students who are white. This is because Gilyard, as an African American English teacher, draws on his personal experience to discuss aspects of the problem of transmitting language skills in Standard English to African American students. This examination of Gilyard's text profiles the conclusions and themes presented in three representative chapters. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgilyad.rtf

Greensboro Sit-Ins
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A 5 page paper which examines the Greensboro sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAsitin.rtf