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Richard Nathaniel Wright By Michele Hopson Richard Wright was born September 4th, 1908 in Mississippi. According to aalbc.com “He was born into a life of poverty, and racial discrimination” (Haskins). In 1916 Wright was living with his aunt and uncle in Arkansas. While there his uncle got murdered by whites, which lead them to flea from there and stay in a hotel room in Helena for a while. At the age of fifteen, Wright wrote his first story, "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre". It was published in Southern Register, a local black newspaper. In 1927 Richard Wright moved to Chicago. Before the Great Depression Wright worked as a postal clerk. Due to the Great Depression he had lost his job and he started writing many poems. In 1935, Wright had completed his first novel, Cesspool. After this breakthrough Richard Wright began his final career. He wrote 15 more books.

Haskins, Scott D. "Richard Wright." //AALBC.com Author Profiles//. Web. 05 Jan. 2010.

Segregation By Michele Hopson Segregations is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Many people fight for the right to be equal and for segregation to stop. After the elimination of slavery in the United States, three Constitutional amendments were passed to grant newly freed African Americans legal status. In spite of these amendments and civil rights acts to enforce the amendments, between 1873 and 1883 the Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that virtually nullified the work of Congress during Reconstruction. According to the Library of Congress “Regarded by many as second-class citizens, blacks were separated from whites by law and by private action in transportation, public accommodations, recreational facilities, prisons, armed forces, and schools in both Northern and Southern states” (A Century of Racial Segregation). It took many lives in order to get rid of segregation for good. It was a fight for true equal rights.

"A Century of Racial Segregation - "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition)." Library of Congress Home. Web. 05 Jan. 2010.

Jim Crow Laws Rhiannon Hookland In the 1880’s the Jim Crow laws were separating the whites from the colored people in the Southern states. The Supreme court decided to have racial segregation. Black people were not aloud to gain any money during reconstruction. The Jim Crow Laws made water fountains, bathrooms, everything separate from the white people. Blacks were second class citizens. Charles Summers and Ben Butler tried to pass a civil rights act in 1875. 1968 segregation was finally done for.  //Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help. Infoplease.com//. Web. 05 Jan. 2010. .

The Scottsboro trials Rhiannon Hookland The Scottsboro Trials were trials with nine black men that’s were accused of raping 2 white women on a train in 1931. This was brought to the Supreme courts for trialing twice in Alabama. The trials had an all white jury, they always came to a guilty verdict. The men went to prison. Patterson for the fourth time was convicted of rape and sentenced to prison for 75 years. Ozzie Powell attacked a deputy sheriff trying to escape was shot in the head. Clarence Norris was convicted of rape and was sentence to death.

"Scottsboro Trials." //Encyclopedia of Alabama//. Web. 05 Jan. 2010. .

Jean-Paul Sartre Rhiannon Hookland Jean-Paul Sartre is a man of many achievements. He is a well-known French philosopher of his time in the twentieth century. He was born June of 1905 and died in April of 1980. He was 74 when he passed away from edema of the lung or fluid in the lung. He has influenced many people over time. In his life, most of it was trying to settle his way of thinking of free will among the communist principles.

Blake Gray


The freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention. This goes hand in hand with existentialism since free will has nothing to do with any divine entity and glorifies the singular over the whole. - "Free will - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. Web. 07 Jan. 2010. .

Fatalism: Blake Gray

Fatalism is a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything happens is predetermined and inevitable. This goes against the teachings of existentialists, because it is the mental attitude resulting from doctrine, it says that a divine being has set things in motion and everything will happen one way and no other ways because it wants it that way and that people just have to deal. -"Fatalism - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. Web. 07 Jan. 2010. .

Marxism: Blake Gray

The economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism. A more simple way of putting this would be; if you are poor you are a criminal and in order for the world to advance there must be a struggle between the social classes, and that communism is better than capitalism.

- "Marxism - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. Web. 07 Jan. 2010. .

"New Deal Programs that benefited whites over blacks" Chip Haskell



The New Deal was a plan set down by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s to grant America well paying jobs in the economic crisis. It stood for Relief, Reform, and Recovery. Thus making the people of the United States of America have trust in the business and financial practices, lowing unemployment in the country, and to thus further save the economy from the Great Depression. The New Deal affected all Americans, but no other group suffered as much as the African Americans. On top of the countries obvious loss of jobs, money, and trust they also had to deal with enhanced racism. Although President Roosevelt, along with others, worked to ensure that they received 10% of Welfare assistance payments. Other than that nobody stepped up to end the segregation in the South. Thus shows the depressing factor of the New Deal benefiting Whites over Blacks.

//New Deal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia// Wikipedia, the free encyclodedia, n.d. Web. 7 Jan. 2010. []

Santos, Dr. M. //The Library of Congress// The United States Government, n.d. Web. 7 Jan. 2010. []