Essays and Research Papers on Slavery & Civil Rights

This 4 page paper examines the role of Sam in this poignant story about racism and apartheid in South Africa. Essentially, the story is about whether or not Sam (the influence of good) is able to outweigh Hally's father's negative influence. This paper highlights the main themes of the story as well as ...

This 3 page paper discusses discrimination in the workplace. Examples given and solutions offered. Walmarts and others profiled. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 7 page paper examines McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler and how the author's own actions held him back, but then would later help him. A discussion on how respect is more important than academics in the black male world is also included. No additional sources cited.

This 5 page report discusses the first chapter of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and the story of Aunt Hester's beating. The point is made that His narrative clearly speaks to the abolitionist discourse of his day in that it demonstrates what was happening to an entire group of ...

4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses several important events in the timeline of both historic movements. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

6 pages in length. The impact of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King left upon the world in relation to racial discord is both grand and far-reaching. That each man placed his own life on the line trying to bring about racial harmony speaks volumes about the resolute dedication they had to their ...

A 4 page research paper on the Civil Rights era. During this time the executive branch, under both Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, aided the cause of civil rights by promoting significant legislation and anti-discrimination public policy. However, the Civil Rights movement was first aided by the Supreme Court through the landmark decision ...

A 3 page overview of Renaissance slavery, slavery occurring between the fourteenth and seventeenth century AD in Europe. The author emphasizes the similarities and differences between Renaissance slavery and American slavery. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page overview of the multiethnic environment which existed in the years following the Civil War. The author traces this environment to colonial times and relates how the end of the Civil War slowly translated into differences in regard to worker rights for the nation’s minorities. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the work “Ar’n’t I a Woman” by Deborah Gray White. No additional sources cited.

A paper which analyses an article describing the only lynching in Clarke County, Georgia, with reference to the actions of the black and the white population and the perspective of the media in reporting the issues.

This 5 page paper discusses the working of affirmative action in the life of Colin Powell and discusses the continued need for affirmative action. Examples, quotes, given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper is a concept paper that defines and illustrates key terms in the dicussion of race. For example, this paper focuses on such terms as race, ethnicity, prejudice, discrimination, segregation, oppression and other similar terms. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper examines the history of the civil rights movement from the beginning to the fifteenth amendment. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page overview of the lessons imparted in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Linda Brent's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". The author emphasizes the point that although these books are vastly dissimilar in many respects, they are both 19th century works about women trying to find their place in the ...

4 pages in length. The extent to which African-Americans lost their entire culture and identity in the after-effects of the slave trade is both grand and far-reaching; that this involuntary evolution from free man to indentured servitude spelled the last of any recognizable distinctiveness for a significant population of people speaks to the slow ...

This 4 page paper provides a basic summary of this story as well as providing insight into the complexities of apartheid. Furthermore, this paper serves as a review which highlights the themes and challenges of the author as well as personal interpretations, observances, and reactions. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page contention that as bad as slavery was on the whole, being a female slave was worse than being a male slave. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs and “Celia, a Slave: A True Story” by Melton McLaurin are used to support this contention. Bibliography ...

This 5 page paper examines the success of the civil rights movement by pin-pointing three factors that were the reason for it's success. More specifically, this paper asserts that the civil rights movement was successful based upon the emergence of powerful leaders, the skepticism caused by the Vietnam war, and the deterioration of traditional ...

A 4 page discussion of the many events and circumstances which combined to ultimately cause the U.S. Civil War. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set the stage for the war but subsequent events such as the war with Mexico of 1846-1848, the Secession Crisis of November 1860-April 1861, the annexation of Texas, the Wilmot ...

This 4-page paper concerns the Nat Turner Rebellion as told, in part in The Fires of Jubilee. The paper answers various questions about the rebellion such as, what characteristics of Turner led to it and was this the right path to take. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3-page paper focuses on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and questions if the relationship was of forced sex or love. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper offers arguments for the continued implementation of affirmative action as supported by a work by John Macionis. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6 page paper discusses the practice by light skinned blacks of 'passing' themselves off as Caucasian at the turn of the century in America. Nella Larsen's books cited and quoted. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 7 page paper which analyzes the types of arguments used by Martin Luther King Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Bibliography lists 4 sources.