Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was the first important African American Poet in American Literature and the first poet to write of both a black and white audience in a time when efforts were being made to re-establish slavery. He was also "the first African-American poet to garner national critical...

Throughout the book, The Color of Water, James McBride made many references to different organizations bent on black power. He explained in minor detail how they walked through the streets and intimidated others, especially him. The best known, and probably the most powerful, of the organizations...

Controversy occasionally makes others take notice of what would other wise be overlooked. Both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lillian Hellman use controversy as a means to introduce "delicate" topics to the mainstream public. In Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" she deals with th...

Guns, Social Welfare, and Revolution: The Black Panther Party In late September of 1966, at a small poverty center in North Oakland, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale began to draft the Ten-Point Platform and Program, thus creating the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. From this creation rose a c...

Believe it or not, Los Angeles was just waiting for an event like the Rodney King verdict to explode. All that was needed was that one spark to ignite the anger in the citizens of South Central and cause the area to explode. One of the recent and most significant riots took place on the streets of L...

BLACKS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: PAST AND PRESENT It is a truism to say that today's world is dominated by science and technology. Business and industry, marketing and sales, medicine, communications, education, leisure-almost every aspect of our culture is influenced by the work of contempor...

The Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement The Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements of the 50s and 60s spawned several organizations that reflected various social moods and attitudes. Though all of the organizations/movements outlined in this paper shared the common goal of racial equa...

Equal on All Sides In this nation there are no in-betweens. It's been made clear that if you don't take the pro-American stance you automatically "ride with bin laden." (Maher) The same holds true for everything else in America. You are a demoncrat or a republican, consumer ...

"Total liberty for black people or total destruction for America." The Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California in 1966, was an African American revolutionary group that took a violent approach to fighting for civil rights. Its founders, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, based the party on the...