Snow In August Snow in August by Pete Hamill was a brilliant fable not only for our time but also for all time. The setting was the year 1947 in Brooklyn, the war veterans had come home, the first black man makes it to the major leagues, and great prejudice against race and religion is present. ...

In the short story, the main character, Nat Lime, loves to being with black people, but they do not love to be around him. All of his life he has lived in a predominately black neighborhood and he loves to be around black people. The only problem is that he is a white Jew and in the 1960's bl...

The Moment Before the Gun Went Off "Nothing satisfies them, in the cities: blacks can sit and drink in white hotels, now, the Immortality Act has gone, blacks can sleep with whites....It's not even a crime any more." (2574). This is a clear example of the way of thinking of the persona in Nadine Go...

Malcolm X once wrote, My life has always been one of changes (Haley 404). In his autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it is very evident that through his life, he went through a series of drastic changes that went from one extreme to another. He went from being at the bottom of the A...

“All men were created equal in the eyes of G-d,” some say. There is a question brought up that is often left unanswered. Then why are we not all treated equally? The answer lies in each of us, and in three very sincere books, that reveal to us the unjust ways of our society, in th...